What are you reading at the moment?

[Kyt]

I've heard of that one and may give it a go one day. Am currently on Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service. Is interesting

[Nostalgair]

Hi All,

I've finished "The Forgotten Few" by Doug Hurst.

A great read!

I'll write more shortly.

Cheers

Owen

[Kitty]

Oh dear, went to a bookstore i have been meaning to visit for a few years today. Bought books on archaeology, wildlife, and two on Station 43: the Polish SOE training station and McIndoe's Army about the Guinea Pig Club. All set to the bottom of the pile and will get around to reading them, but am going back for more. Including a book on the development of PRU, two on aerial photography in archaeology and saw several copies of Chianti Raiders there if anyone wants them. At £4.99 each hardback.

Email me quickly if I need to head back for them.

[Kyt]

Just started Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940.

Here's a review:

Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 | Canadian Journal of History | Find Articles at BNET

[Kitty]

Just finished Making Money. Is that allowed?

[Kyt]

Just finished D-day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France by Frank 'Dutch' Holland.

the blurb reads

The day after D-Day, the most momentous day of the Second World War, Frank Holland was an RAF pilot whose Typhoon aircraft had just been hit by German anti-aircraft fire during a low flying attack on a marshalling yard in Normandy. He managed to take the aircraft up to 1200 feet but then the engine went dead and his Typhoon soon began heading towards the earth at an accelerating and frightening speed. Struggling frantically, he just barely got free of the cockpit and baled out four or five seconds before the crash. His parachute didn't open but he fell into a wood, crashing through the branches of an oak to dangle precariously fifteen feet up. Breathing hard, he experienced a few seconds of relief at survival. But then he realised German troops would be swarming around within minutes. He had to get away, and fast...So begins Frank's tremendous adventure as he evaded capture for months, sometimes by barely a whisker, to make it back home to the city of his birth, Cambridge. This is a riveting true story told in a masterly fashion.

Frank flew with 184 Squadron and he writes well about his time, and some of his missions before he was shotdown. Some interesting snippets about the early use of rockets, and trials of different types of attacking formations.

His time on the run is also well constructed, without any hyperbole. But I think Frank would be the first to admit that his time behind the lines wasn't the most arduous, in comparison to many others.

It is written in the same vein as Owen's book, and reads just as well. I'm glad I managed to pick up a copy for a few pounds.

And now back to the book I mentioned above (#154) which I left half way.

[Antipodean Andy]

And now back to the book I mentioned above (#154) which I left half way.

Hussy.

[Nostalgair]

Hi Kyt,

Yes I read Dutch's book too and thoroughly enjoyed it. I got to meet him at Duxford as we were at tables side by side there.

I've just started "From North Africa to Arakan" by Alan McGregor Peart DFC.

Cheers

Owen

[martinww2]

This moment i am reading, A bridge to far,its a very good book.

[John]

At present, I am reading " The Guns of Muschu ". I am enjoying this book as I have a relation that was involved in the event that took place and in which he lost his life. I am also enjoying the behind the scene planning that took place before the event and the stuff ups that occured.

John