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From past experience I know that there is a large number of avid readers frequenting this site. Have I got a recommendation for you. "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbran. She spent seven years researching the subject. Louis Zamperini was a competitor in the 1936 Olympic Games. As a member of a Bomber Crew during WW II is plane crashed and he survived 42 days on an inflatable raft before being picked up by a Japanese ship. He spent the next 2 1/2 years as a POW.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/bo...rgolick-t.html

Possibly the best book I've read in the past five years. Male reader or female, you'll be hooked by page four.

thanx for sharing the info... I absolutely love reading about WWII!!!!

Here's another excellent WW II book I read last fall - "Last Train From Hiroshima" by Charles Pellegrino. The movie rights for it have been acquired by James Cameron.

dang, I thought I was going to lay around in my jammies all day. Looks like I'll be going to Barnes & Noble.

2, of my many fav WWII books:

'All Hands Down', by Kenneth Sewell
'In Harm's Way', by Doug Stanton


edited: oops, sorry,'All Hands Down' isn't during WWII. But still an OUTSTANDING book. my apologies.

PERFECT for Valentines gifts for me and hubby! Thanks you two. Wolfman and cc - Now I too must get out of my jammies today! BOO!

Anyone into WW II books has got to read about the Battle of Staingrad, the REAL "turning point" of the war. If Germany had taken Stalingrad, there was nothing between them and China. Japan would have hit China from the East. China wouldn't have had a chance. Germany would have captured the great Bread Basket of Asia, the wheat fields of the Ukraine, Oil Fields, the Caspian Sea shippng routes. Plus Turkey, Spain and even Argentina, had pledged to help out Hitler if he was able to take Stalingrad. It was huge.The World would be a differenf place today. Look for Anthony Beevor's "Stalingrad" and the more readable "Stalingrad: How the Red Army Withstood the German Onslaught" by Michael Jones. The Beevor book is good, but he's English, his prose is kinda dry.

There's also a pretty good movie that is set during the Seige of Stalingrad, "Enemy at the Gate" with, I believe, Jude Law.

Hallow and thanks again "Wolfie" and "creeepy"- for the good read ideas!
You are the Big Kahuna of Books! BOO!

I don't know if I've ever read a WWII book, though I'm a sucker for bios & non-fiction, I'm surprised I haven't.

I just finished Augusten Burroughs "A Wolf at the Table." Read it in one day, which wasn't hard since it was short. I could really relate to his feelings for his father. I just started "Dry" which is about his battle with alcoholism. Ever since "Running With Scissors" I've been a fan.

I'm also reading an Ann Rule book, one of the compilations of stories the "True Cases" ones. When it comes to real crime, she's my fave.

Originally Posted by RCIAG

I don't know if I've ever read a WWII book, though I'm a sucker for bios & non-fiction, I'm surprised I haven't.

I just finished Augusten Burroughs "A Wolf at the Table." Read it in one day, which wasn't hard since it was short. I could really relate to his feelings for his father. I just started "Dry" which is about his battle with alcoholism. Ever since "Running With Scissors" I've been a fan.

I'm also reading an Ann Rule book, one of the compilations of stories the "True Cases" ones. When it comes to real crime, she's my fave.

RCIAG- I LOVE ANN RULE!! Have read all her books. All but one are fantastic... her last one is not that well written...'In the Still of the Night', she focuses too much on the victim's mother's feelings. ugh. not my thang. LOL But, I always enjoyed her 'true cases' books.

Currently, reading 'A Season of Darkness', by Douglas Jones & Phyllis Gobbell. Another great true crime book. It's about a 9 year old Girl Scout murdered in Nashville; took over 30 years to solve the case. I don't normally read about murdered kids, because they can get too descriptive (& it breaks my little Grinch heart ), but this is well written and the story itself (how police botched things up) is great.

Next book on my list to read: Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima; by Stephen Walker. Can't wait to get started on it!!

Went to Barnes & Nobles last week and picked up the book Wolfman mentioned, along with a bunch of others. Spent way too much $$$!!!

I really need to stay off this thread!!!

sidenote: wolfman- "Last Train From Hiroshima" is out of print. Too bad; sounded good.

The two best "Crime" books I've ever read - "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote and "The Onion Field" by Joseph Wambaugh. Wambaugh, a retired LA Policeman, wrote several novels based on fact, including "The Choir Boys", that were very big sellers back inna day...