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Must recommend my current holiday reading
' Code Breakers ' by Michael Paterson. Personal accounts from the secret services.
Lots of Enigma of course, capturing German submarines to get the code books, and my particular favourite where our Ian Fleming planned to crash a captured german bomber into the North Sea with a british crew dressed up as Luftwaffe, complete with bandages, false blood etc, wait to be rescued by the German rescue boats, kill the crew, throw them over the side and return with the boat and code books.
The opportunity waiting to locate a typical vessel lead to frustration and the operation being cancelled.
Even if fiction, this would make a great book but the 007 creator was a devious old chap. Even better if a film.
I have one more chapter to read before completing but a great set of memoirs from all theatres.
' Code Breakers ' by Michael Paterson. Personal accounts from the secret services.
Lots of Enigma of course, capturing German submarines to get the code books, and my particular favourite where our Ian Fleming planned to crash a captured german bomber into the North Sea with a british crew dressed up as Luftwaffe, complete with bandages, false blood etc, wait to be rescued by the German rescue boats, kill the crew, throw them over the side and return with the boat and code books.
The opportunity waiting to locate a typical vessel lead to frustration and the operation being cancelled.
Even if fiction, this would make a great book but the 007 creator was a devious old chap. Even better if a film.
I have one more chapter to read before completing but a great set of memoirs from all theatres.
Robin Olds-fighter pilot
One the the best books I have read about the war
Olds was certainly a character!!!
Brilliant .if you like your Second World War stuff and aviation you won’t be disappointed with this
Also The Hub -about Hub Zempke’s wolfpack flying P47’s from east anglia in ww2
One the the best books I have read about the war
Olds was certainly a character!!!
Brilliant .if you like your Second World War stuff and aviation you won’t be disappointed with this
Also The Hub -about Hub Zempke’s wolfpack flying P47’s from east anglia in ww2
I'm re-reading Flying Start by Hugh Dundas at the mo – fighter pilot from 1940 onwards in Spits, Typhoons etc. It's a sign of how things have changed (or how old I have got) since I last read it, that I'm staggered by the amount of drinking that went on. Paraphrased, it's along the lines of "we were practising night flying later that evening, so popped into the mess bar for drinks beforehand."
Lord.Vader said:
Blood red Snow - German infantry WW2, eastern front.
Good book - you really feel the author change from young fresh-faced recruit to hardened soldier.Only a fiver if anyone wants a copy
https://www.theworks.co.uk/p/military-books/blood-...
Also; Panzer Leader - The Classic Account of Blitzkrieg
Written by the general who envisaged then led the German tank program from inception through to its revolutionary impact on the battlefield, and the subsequent downfall of Nazi Germany. A good read from someone who had not only Hitlers ear, but also was at the front of some German offensives in his own tank.
As an aside, The Works has a pretty good selection of military history books, quite often massively reduced. https://www.theworks.co.uk/c/non-fiction-books/mil...
(No connection to the company, just like a good bargin )
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