"Obsessive Book Collections" Topic

I'm sure all of us read around our favorite periods, but are there any wars/time periods/campaigns about which you collect and read every book you can find?

For me, my interests are very varied but I obsessively snap up every book I can find on the War of 1812, Stalingrad, and the BEF in France.

WSS (scarce),and 19th century colonial,especially obscure wars like Maori and Abyssinia. Just to make it harder on myself.

My dad's personal library has 20K or so volumes, mostly dealing with nautical subjects, probably followed by the ACW, early American history, etc.

My answer to your question is, "No."

Napoleonic titles. Hundreds. Most of them actually read by me.

Zeppelin operations in WWI

Yes, like you everything on the War of 1812.

No

No, my interests vary widely. Three interests that I generally look for books on are the Spanish Civil War, the Indochina War, and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. For the SCW I do try to read all of the books published on the International Brigades specifically about American, Canadian, British and Irish volunteers. For the other two periods I am pretty much limited to books published in English.

Arnhem / Oosterbeek and to a lesser extent Market Garden. Then there are my Napoleonic books – both newish and antique

Well, I used to buy just about every item of Custeriana I could find. Counting books, pamphlets (some of the best items) and periodicals, I have over 2000.

I have read about 95%.

Some of the rare ones were beyond my spending limits. Now I only buy selected ones.

Tom

Nope.

Pre Civil war West and MTB WW2 books