"WW2 books for a preteenager" Topic

Anyone know of some good books for a preteenager who is interested in WW2 vechiles and ships. And he is also interested in dolphins.

Osprey's "Delfinsonderkommando of the Third Reich"?
Dont show him the experimentation both sides did with dolphins in the cold war. The only cool thing are the Spetsnatz type dolphins that guarded the approaches to the Black Sea harbors. 100% accuracy in locating intruders – had poisoned spikes on their schnoozes too. 'Freakin' Sharks with Laser beams on their heads' wasn't too far off the mark.
On a less serious note, I grew up with the 'Commando' series of comic books. Ripping stuff.
The Ladybird series might have had some things in them. Does the '100 Things you should know about….' series have anything on WW2 – has a ton of stuff on Knights, Egyptians, Dinosaurs, Pirates, Sharks etc.? I do think Osprey has a comic book series on great battles in WWII (I think has Guadalcanal and maybe some others by now (and the ACW), pretty good stuff. The little militaria books were great for pretty much all the tanks and planes of WW2. My favorite thing at his age had to be the 'Airfix' catalog though. If it's just the vehicles and ships he's interested in rather than the history then model building and catalogues would hold his attention for hours. Visits to actual museums and ships would be great too – they would have plenty of material too.

No vehicles, but a terrific adventure story ideally suited for the age is Snow Treasures, in which Norwegian children smuggle gold under the noses of Nazi soldiers. He'll love it: link

For more factual stuff, you can't go wrong with Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness series: link

They're dated, but the Weapons and Warfare series of books – sort of a hard-bound, multi-volume encyclopedia of weapons, vehicles, aircraft and ships from the 1890s to 1969 – would probably hold his/her/its interest for many years.

This is volume 1 cahood.com/BOOK8630.htm There are 24 volumes in all.

This may also be of interest: link

Wyatt

In the spirit of TMP my recommendations feature no aquatic mammals, vehicles or ships [as far as I know] but are WW2 based so I thought I'd pass them on anyway

My 11 year old has just been ploughing through books over the summer holidays as part of a pre-high school homework list [homework…in the summer holidays..I ask you!!!]

We suggested he read The Silver Sword by Ian Serrailier which, much to his surprise, he really enjoyed [I don't think he expected anything recommended by his parents to be fun although he's now working through my Terry Pratchett pile].

He has also been planning to read some books by Robert Muchamore, the Henderson's Boys series…

link

"Summer, 1940.

Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run.

Amidst the chaos, two British children are being hunted by German agents.

British spy Charles Henderson tries to reach them first, but he can only do it with the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan.

The British secret service is about to discover that kids working undercover will help to win the war.

For official purposes, these children do not exist."

He hasn't read any of them yet so I don't know the verdict but he did enjoy other books by the same author.

May i suggest the collections of Commando and Battle Picture Library comics? These are British comics from the 60s and 70s, much loved in Blighty and full of action, derring-do and aimed precisely at that age group.

Sargeant Rock comic books