• Panzer Commander : The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck  

By Goose (Goose) (66.20.147.192 - 66.20.147.192) on Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 10:26 pm:

Excellent book by paratrooper Donald R. Burgett, A Co, 506th, account of training & jump into France on D-Day. Less than 200 pages, was published in 1967 by Houghton-Mifflin Co. & titled "Currahee!". Personal detailed account that accurately reflects what happened then. (was a later inspiration to me as a 19 year-old Ranger during my jump as part of the combat assault at Port Salines,Grenada-Urgent Fury)

By Dtircuit (Dtircuit) (24.21.234.167 - 24.21.234.167) on Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 11:15 pm:

No kidding, Goose. I actually read that last weekend, and been meaning to post that up here.

Burgett also wrote 2 other books. I did get one of them, but haven't started it yet.

These books are VERY easy to read, it's almost like hearing a story, very conversational.

I reccomend it to anyone interested in WWII in general, Paratroopers in particular.

Adios,
Derek

By homefront41 (Homefront41) (198.81.26.142) on Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 01:51 pm:

Here's a reading list (both fiction and non-fiction) for some of our young friends:

Sir Basil Liddell Hart, any work
Martin Gilbert, any work
The official US Army history of World War II, multiple volumes, by the Center for Military History (Cross-Channel Attack covers D-Day, The Ardennes, Battle of the Bulge touches on the 101st, and Siegfied Line Campaign)
John Keegan, any work
Paul Fussell, any work
D-Day, Pegasus Bridge, Citizen Soldiers: Stephen E. Ambrose
On to Berlin: Gen. James Gavin
The Greatest Generation: Brokaw, Tom
The Story of a Soldier, 1940-1971-The Airborne Spirit and Recollections of Colonel Edward S. Mehosky (Ret.), U.S. Army, Infantry by Ivan Paul Mehosky
War Letters
Currahee, The Road to Arnhem and Seven Roads to Hell, Beyond the Rhine: Donald Burgett (A506th)
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne: George Koskimaki (A506th)
101st Airborne, The Screaming Eagles at Normandy: Mark Bando
A Bridge Too Far: Cornelius Ryan
Parachute Infantry: David Kenyon Webster
Cpl Forrest Guth: E Company 506th PIR Band of Brothers (WWII American Paratroopers Portrait Series) by Michel De Trez (due out 5/02)
A Walk in the Sun: Harry Brown
A Time for Trumpets: Charles McDonald
Trail of the Fox
Flags Of Our Fathers: James Bradley
Ghost Soldiers: by Hampton Sides
Silent Warriors: L.Q.Zedric (about the Alamo Scouts)
The Deadly Brotherhood, the American Combat Soldier in World War II: McManus
The Men of Company K: Campbell
Company Commander: Charles MacDonald
Winged Victory: Geoffrey Perrett
There's A War to Be Won: Perrett
A Dark and Bloody Ground: Miller
The Bloody Forest: Gerald Astor
A Blood Dimmed Tide: Gerald Astor
Battle of the Huertgen Forest: Charles Whiting
Those Devils in Baggy Pants: C/504th Ross Carter
The GI Offensive in Europe, the Triumph of American Infantry Divisions 1941-1945: Mansoor
Death Traps: Belton Cooper
Messengers of The Lost Battalion: by Greg Orfalea
The Better Angels, Robert A. Mills
War of the Rats
Beyond Valor, Patrick K. O’Donnell
The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier in WWII, Mary Penick Motley
Night Drop, S.L.A. Marshall
Goodbye Darkness: William Manchester
Iwo Jima: Bill Ross
Riflemen: On the Cutting Edge of World War II: Earl Reitan
Dance of Death
If You Survive, by George Wilson
Patton, A Genius for War
History Goes To the Movies by Joseph Roquemore (1999)
The Americans at War
Life - World War 2: History's Greatest Conflict in Pictures
Between War and Peace
The Seed And The Sower: Sir Laurens Van Der Post
The Man Called Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson
Japan’s Secret War
Between War and Peace
The Wings of Morning: Thomas Childers
No Guts, No Glory: Boots Blessee
Soldier of Orange
Between Silk and Cyanide: Leo Marks
Erich Hartman: The Blond Knight of Germany
Is Paris Burning?: Collins & LaPierre
A Town Like Alice: Neville Shute
A War To Be Won: Murray and Millett
Summer Of My German Soldier

Holocaust
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust -- by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
The German Army and Genocide: Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and other Civilians in the East, 1939-1944 by Scott Abbott (Translator), Hamburg Institute (Editor), Omer Bartov, Hamburg Institute
The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists by Martin A. Lee
In Evidence: Poems, etc. Barbara Helffgott Hyett
Survival in Auschwitz: Primo Levi
The Informed Heart: Bruno Bettelheim (camp survivor’s memoir/reflection on the meaning of the camps
Night: Elie Wiesel
Other Losses: James Bacque
With Wallenberg in Budapest: Per Anger
Righteous Gentile: John Bierman
Seven Hells: Ted Stabholz
Guard of Honor" by James Gould Cozzens. and an extraordinary book set on the home front in Ocanara Air Base, and full of American racism, the novel that Noel Perrin calls the best about WWII
Two women (book as well as movie) on the Italians
Zuccotti, "The Italians and the Holocaust"
On the Dutch, besides Anne Frank and the wonderful more recent book about her by Miep Gies, two heartwrenching accounts by Prof Jacob Presser, the novel "Breaking Point" and the history "Ashes in the wind: the destruction of the Dutch Jews".

Hope this helps. BK

By Jonathan Jones (Jonjones) (213.1.147.61) on Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 06:39 pm:

Great stuff! I'll be off to my specialist military bookshop, pronto! Any chance that this list can be expanded, worldwide? I'm sure our worldwide contributors can add more? Here's three books on the airborne and one of significance for my locality and the US alike:

"Go To It!" The Illustrated History of the 6th Airborne Division (and dedicated to those who served in it) by P. Harclerode.
Caxton - 1990
ISBN 1 84067 136 X

"Mi Amigo" The Story of Sheffield's Flying Fortress by D. Harvey. ALD 1997
ISBN 1 901587 00 2

Great short history of one B 17, her crew and their tragic end which is commemorated in Sheffield in February of every year.

"British Parachute Forces 1940 - 45".
H. Davis. Arms and Armour Press 1974.
ISBN 85368 108 2

Superb little illustrated book.

"German Parachute Forces 1935 - 45".
B. Davis. Arms and Armour Press 1974.
ISBN 85368 096 5

Ditto.

More to come. Regards, Jonathan.

By homefront41 (Homefront41) (198.81.26.142) on Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 07:30 pm:

WEBSITES (culled from lots of Message Boards)-- an excellent source to find other history book titles.

History (mostly military and in no order or relation to BoB)

http://www.hbo.com/band concerning E Company
http://www.tircuit.com - Doc Roe's grandsons' site (Tircuit and Langlois families)
http://photos.yahoo.com/smithfinn - Burr Smith family E-Co photos
http://www.bpchristenson.com/ Pat Christenson site – pencil drawings of D-Day, etc.
http://photos.yahoo.com/jlindholm2000 - BoB screencaps
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~p.vandewal/ - great Dutch site – lots of WWII photos of Eindhoven liberation and 6/01 Normandy premier of BoB
http://www.davidkenyonwebster.com/ - David Webster, “Parachute Infantry” author site
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/200...ures/A13GIS.htm - Phila Inquirer story on Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0185906 - Production details site
http://www.users.voicenet.com/~lpadilla/mo...tml#mohcontents - Medal of Honor site
http://www.101airborneww2.com
http://currahee.hispeed.com/ - 506th site
http://www.screamingeagle.org/ 101st Assoc.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~magro/parasongs.html - paratrooper songs
http://www.siemers.com/index.htm - Ooooo, trucks and tanks and armored cars, oh my
http://www.grunts.net/army/101abn.html
http://www.wildbillguarnere.com
http://www.normandybattlefields.com/img20_marigy.htm
http://www.onwar.com
[URL=http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/westfront/index.htm]
http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/mcmillan/history...82nd/index.html
http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/westfront/i...index.htm[/URL]
http://bulge.free.fr/
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/BOOKS/WWII/utah/utah.htm
http://www.casematepublishing.com/ books
http://www.vcsc.k12.in.us/bob/ Teacher in Indiana – student project tools
http://www.mindspring.com/~gif212/ Monte Cassino
http://www.grunts.net/army/28thid.html
http://www.bcs-pa.com/pa/28th/
http://www.lonestar-mvpa.org/presentations...hID_History.htm
http://www.lichtjesroute.nl
http://www.E506th.com
http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/bandofbrothers/
http://www2.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/WWII...Nor/506-nor.htm
http://portal.compuserve.com/gatewaynet/tv...dofbrothers.asp
http://www.geocities.com/eco_506th/photogallery.html
http://www.geocities.com/kublapuppy/damianlewis001.htm
http://www.the-trades.com/column.php?columnid=827
http://home.planet.nl/~jan81951/marketgarden
http://members.tripodnet.nl/janssenmichel/.../Eindhoven.html
http://www.bandofbrothers.ontheweb.nl/
http://www.warfoto.com
http://members.home.net/3rdiv/
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi
http://www.thehistorynet.com
http://www.grumpymen.com
http://home.hiwaay.net/~magro/paraww2.html
http://www.konnections.com/airlift/index.html
http://www.paratrooper.net
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres.html
http://www.TheBetterAngels.com
http://www.uspathfinders.org
http://www.ww2dday.com/
http://www.91stbombgroup.com
http://www.battle-of-britain.com
http://www.aerolink.20m.com
http://www.divetheworld.com
http://www.heavybombers.com
http://www.445th-bomb-group.com
http://www.coastcomp.com
http://www.afnoa.org
http://www.landings.com
http://www.100thbg.com
http://www.303rdbga.com
http://www.unc.edu/~landon/clyde.html
http://www.b24.net/
http://www.heavybombers.com/392ndbg.html
http://www.halun.com
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1393/
http://www.b24.mach3ww.com/
http://www.geocities.com/llcamp_to/index.html
http://www.stable.demon.co.uk/map.htm
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/
http://users.skynet.be/sky72940/
http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com
http://www.wf.net/~darilek/
http://www.b24bestweb.com/
http://www.execpc.com/~brouchou/
http://www.446bg.com/
http://www.westnet.com/~ssherman/
http//:www.wwiivehicles.com
Http://www.hackworth.com
Greatest 100 Military Photos collection?
http://dept.kent.edu/rotc/photos/100Greate...100greatst.html
http://www.au.af.mil/au/afhra/wwwroot/kore...er.html#0018fbg LongJohn’s Korean Unit

http://www.geocities.com/kkh_khan/Quotes3.html (WW2 quotes)

http://www.histoportal.com/ww2.html (Right column) (WW2 quotes)

http://www.angelfire.com/la/raeder/worldwa...arIIquotes.html (WW2 quotes)

http://www.bridgeboymusic.com/billyboy/civwar.htm (Civil War quotes)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/t.../topic_war.html (War quotes)

http://home.att.net/~quotations/war.html (War quotes)

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html (War quotes)

http://www.sillyquotes.com/war/ (Stupid war quotes)

http://home.hiwaay.net/~magro/parasongs.html This site for a laugh:

http://www.kilroywashere.org/ One can get lost on this site:

http://www.siemers.com/index.htm

For the FlyBoys:

http://www.heavybombers.com/


Other

D-Day/Normandy sites from the cemetery website link page

http://www.bigredone.org 1st Infantry Division, Society of

http://www.swiftsite.com/2ida 2nd Infantry Division Association

http://www.4thinfantry.org 4th Infantry Division Association

http://www.29divisionassociation.org 29th Division Association

http://www.30thinfantry.org 30th Infantry Division Association

http://www.fayettevillenc.com/airborne82dassn 82nd Airborne Division Association

http://www.screamingeagle.org 101st Airborne Division Association

http://currahee.hispeed.com 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment Association

http://www.abmc.gov American Battle Monuments Commission

http://www.americandday.org American D-day

http://www.awon.org American WWII Orphans Network

http://fleursdelamemoire.free.fr/bedford/index.html Association Omaha-Beach - Bedford

http://normandy.eb.com Britannica on line - Normandy 1944

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg Center of Military History

http://www.normandie1944.fr Comité du débarquement

http://www.6juin1944.com D-Day : Etat des lieux

http://www.dday.co.uk D-Day - History revisited

http://users.skynet.be/bs171567/webb/index.htm John Webb - Pfc, B Co - 502nd PIR - 101st Airborne

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.delogu Juin 44 un vent de liberté

http://www.memorial.fr Mémorial de Caen - Un musée pour la Paix

http://www.musee-memorial-omaha.com Musée mémorial Omaha Beach

http://www.dday.org National D-Day Memorial foundation

http://www.ddaymuseum.org National D-Day Museum

http://sboos.perso.ch/Normandie-1944 Normandie 1944

http://www.france-ouest.tm.fr/debarquement Normandie - 6 juin 1944

http://www.normandie44lamemoire.com Normandie - la mémoire

http://www.normandyallies.org Normandy Allies

http://assoc.wanadoo.fr/normandy44-90div.us Normandy 44 - 90ème Division US

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean.dessenne/mem.htm Somme American cemetery and memorial

http://www.tme.asso.fr Terre et Mer Environnement

http://www.usslci.com USS LCI National Association

http://www.i-served.com/ VietNam era memoir
http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/sea-ao.html SE Asia maps

http://www.storypreservation.com

http://www.storypreservation.com/links-mh.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/ Bob Hope

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/blondie/ Blondie!

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/ Marshall Plan

Women at the Front

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

When They were Young (Childhood through photography)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/young/
~~~~

These are some of the site addresses I've collected over time. Enjoy! BK

By cias (Cias) (208.148.113.31) on Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 11:06 pm:

..And BK did that in one breath!

A couple more:
WWII
The Simple Sounds of Freedom by Thomas Taylor

Holocaust

Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews by Michael Smith.

Gary

By Iines (Iines) (195.197.126.1) on Monday, January 06, 2003 - 09:44 am:

Wow, thanks, wonderfull list

Iines

By Janine (Janine) (139.134.64.157) on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 12:29 am:

Is there really a book on Cpl Forrest Guth? Is it about his whole life of just his time in the army?

By cias (Cias) (208.148.113.197) on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 01:39 am:

Basically his tome in the Army and with many photos.
Gary

By Janine (Janine) (139.134.64.157) on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 11:05 pm:

That sounds really good. I guess I'll look out for it! Thanks Gary.

By Cyd Paddick (Donnie) (82.144.224.72) on Friday, October 31, 2003 - 07:51 am:

Has Anyone Read If this is a man and The Truce. they are probrably the best books ive ever read on the holocaust. they are by premo levi and come as one book.
The White hotel is another good one, but only the end is about the holocaust, but its very good. id only read this if you dont mind wierd books.
this book isnt about the 2world war but its a fantstic book anyhow. it a evil cradling by brian keenan, about being kidnapped in beruit.
give them ago and let me know what you think!

By aipezxthhdb (203.126.25.170) on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 09:04 am:

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