"War Reading: The Best World War II Memoirs" Topic
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Tango01  | 13 Aug 2018 11:10 a.m. PST |
"No matter how many books you read, some just stand out forever. It could be a remembrance of good times, bad times or just an event from childhood. Others stir emotions that you didn't know you had. That is especially true for a combat memoir. There is an art to describing a traumatic experience. Combat and its associated struggles do not make for easy subjects. So it is a rare gift in which an author can live through those events and write about it with such skill. These books do not glorify war. They stand as a testament to the human spirit within the futility of conflict. The focus of these books is the European Theater of Operations as well as the Mediterranean…."
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Armand
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 Jeff Ewing | 13 Aug 2018 12:14 p.m. PST |
Wilson's account, while good and heartfelt is by no means as well written as Gantter's (my favorite US memoir) or MacDonald's (was an historian for the US Army.) Several of these I haven't read, so thanks, Armand! |
| Gone Fishing | 13 Aug 2018 2:20 p.m. PST |
It's not the European theatre, but Burma, but George MacDonald Fraser's Quartered Safe Out Here is a superb read. |
| Major Mike | 13 Aug 2018 2:26 p.m. PST |
A little partial to Spike Milligans books about his time in the British Army in Africa and Italy. Fairley Mowat's book is an interesting read too, again about action in Italy. |
| Wackmole9 | 14 Aug 2018 4:59 a.m. PST |
Panzer commander by Von Luck |
| Huscarle | 14 Aug 2018 8:42 a.m. PST |
I've read a fair few memoirs, but the one that really hit me is "The Blue Door" by Lise Kristensen, a young Norwegian girl & her family interned by the Japanese in Java.
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| Tango01 | 14 Aug 2018 10:37 a.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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