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Originally Posted by Raellus
I'll second anything by Beevor or Atkinson. Beevor's new one about D-Day is coming out soon. Woo-hoo!
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Actually Beevor's
D Day book is out now in the UK - I bought an airport edition at Luton's WH Smith on a 4 for 3 deal on Friday morning (unfortunately my friend who took great care of my wife and I over the weekend lusted after it so obviously that I weakened and gave it to him as a "thank you").
However I can now second
An Ordinary Soldier,
A Million Bullets and
Phoenix Squadronas being jolly good (Phoenix Squadron finished and the other two half read - my wife packed the one I'd started in my case so I had no option.....)
I also thought of another two books
Hitler's U-Boat War:The Hunters 1939 - 1942 and
Hitler's U-Boat War:The Hunted 1942 - 1945 both by Clair Blair. These are pretty much the definitive story of the real Cruel Sea in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Highly detailed you can't come out of these without feeing a great deal of respect for the men on both sides.