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Leningrad Under Siege by Adamovich & Granin
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Montefiore
Hill 112: Cornerstone of the Normandy Campaign by How
and some of you are going to laugh (or cry) at this last one, but I couldn't resist when I accidently came across the anthology on Amazon:
Commando: The Dirty Dozen - The Best 12 Commando Comic Books Ever! This took me way back to the early 70s when my interest for military history was just beginning and my fortune consisted of 10p pocket money. The stories are juvenile, but perfect for igniting passions within a young boy that have consumed me as an adult.
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Montefiore
Hill 112: Cornerstone of the Normandy Campaign by How
and some of you are going to laugh (or cry) at this last one, but I couldn't resist when I accidently came across the anthology on Amazon:
Commando: The Dirty Dozen - The Best 12 Commando Comic Books Ever! This took me way back to the early 70s when my interest for military history was just beginning and my fortune consisted of 10p pocket money. The stories are juvenile, but perfect for igniting passions within a young boy that have consumed me as an adult.
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"Operation Sealion" by Peter Fleming.
Lexxx - what are the twelve titles in the anthology???
Me, I preferred the rival War Picture Library! Less..."fantastic"?...than the Commando stories, and the artwork was sometimes better. They released Summer School Hols anthologies of four or five old titles right up into the early '80s.
Lexxx - what are the twelve titles in the anthology???
Me, I preferred the rival War Picture Library! Less..."fantastic"?...than the Commando stories, and the artwork was sometimes better. They released Summer School Hols anthologies of four or five old titles right up into the early '80s.
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After learning of the Commando Anthology, I also found the War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library Anthologies as well. There are 6 anthologies total.
Commando: The Dirty Dozen
Commando: All Guns Blazing
Commando: True Brit
Commando: Anzacs at War
Battle Picture Library: Death or Glory
War Picture Library: Unleash Hell
None appear to be available on the U.S. Amazon site. You have to go to Amazon U.K.
They are certainly a good read down nostalgia lane -- now if someone would just reprint my favorite stories from Battle and Battle Action for Boys, my life will have come full circle and be complete.
Commando: The Dirty Dozen
Commando: All Guns Blazing
Commando: True Brit
Commando: Anzacs at War
Battle Picture Library: Death or Glory
War Picture Library: Unleash Hell
None appear to be available on the U.S. Amazon site. You have to go to Amazon U.K.
They are certainly a good read down nostalgia lane -- now if someone would just reprint my favorite stories from Battle and Battle Action for Boys, my life will have come full circle and be complete.
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I'd like to know if the above book is any good as I always thought about buying a copy myself.cuileann wrote: Brandenburg Divison: Commandos of the Reich (special operations) by
Eric Lefevre
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I just finished Giles MacDonogh's After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation and it was one of the most gut-wrenching books I ever read about a little known topic.
To shift gears, I am now reading Yaroslav Trofimov's The Siege of Mecca: The forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda--alrihgt it isn't WWII related, but I needed a change of pace
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I am mid way through the Brandenburg book so far I've found it really interesting, it details their success and also their failures, the author has done his research well, the book isn't a complete start to finish history of the division I believe there is a book called The Brandenburgrs by Franz Kurowski which shows that. I think this books so far is a must read.
I have just ordered After the Reich was you have along with a book called A Mind in prison: The memoir of a son and soldier of the Third Reich by Bruno Manz.
cuileann
I am mid way through the Brandenburg book so far I've found it really interesting, it details their success and also their failures, the author has done his research well, the book isn't a complete start to finish history of the division I believe there is a book called The Brandenburgrs by Franz Kurowski which shows that. I think this books so far is a must read.
I have just ordered After the Reich was you have along with a book called A Mind in prison: The memoir of a son and soldier of the Third Reich by Bruno Manz.
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