What are you currently reading?

Outlaw Josey Wales · (This post was last modified: 08-24-2012, 02:46 AM by Outlaw Josey Wales.)

(08-23-2012, 06:10 AM)TheBigRedOne Wrote:
(08-23-2012, 02:30 AM)Outlaw Josey Wales Wrote: Just recently finished "Hell in a Very Small Place" (Dien Bien Phu) and "Fire in the Streets" (Hue during Tet) and about 1/2 way through "We were Soldiers Once....and Young". All three pretty intense books. On a Vietnam kick at the moment. Usually my reading is mostly 80% ww2 with the rest shared between ACW, Korea, Vietnam and the odd book that catches my eye like "The History of the French Foreign Legion".

All of those are fantastic books.

If you like Fall's book on DBP, read The Last Valley by Windrow. It is an equally good account of that battle.

Thanks for the tip. Will have to look into that when I can. have not had any luck for something interesting at the book stores for quite some time now. Going to start looking online from here on out.

(08-23-2012, 01:01 PM)KG_RangerBooBoo Wrote: Reading some historical fiction about a Roman legionary but actually won a signed copy of September Hope that I will probably pick up next. It is the story of the American Airborne in Market Garden.

If you wish to expand further than Market-Garden, there is a book called "All American All the Way" about the complete history of the 82nd in ww2. It is a large book, but excellent! Would love to find more books about one division like this one and not limited to just American units. I also have the two volume set of the 12ss. I usually come across a similar book when times are very hard and long past memory when times aren't so bad. I will get lucky sooner or later. I know one thing I would love to find is the multi volume set of the U.S. military during ww2. It's something like 20 volumes that I have only rarely seen in the reference section in Public Libraries and not all them have it either. Living in a small town, there is nothing near at all.

I would really like to know if there is anything, multi volume or not, that would cover the French in Indochina in great detail from pre ww2 through to 1954. I have "Street without Joy", but feel there are a lot of things left out. I would also like to find a good detailed book covering U.S. there from start to finsh. Don't know if either of them exist yet, but still looking.