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WWI or WWII books?

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Evening all. Looking for some suggestions if possible.

The wife bought me

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz

for Christmas. Really fascinating read. Pretty much finished it now and am on the look out for other true stories based around the two World Wars.

Anyone have any recommendations?

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Stalingrad is a good film.

Going back a little bit this is a ripping read.

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Try 'Operation Mincemeat'

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Antony Beevor - Stalingrad. Berlin.

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Not true stories, but Birdsong and All Quiet on the Western Front are well worth a read

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Not my specialist subject but I believe the Formula One writer, Joe Saward wrote a couple of historical war-related books

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Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs is something different, but could be exactly what you are looking for.

In November 2001, as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers, German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps, and secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely and openly about their hopes and fears, their concerns and their day-to-day lives. With a banality and ease which to the modern reader can appear shocking, they also talked about the horrors of war -- about rape, death and killing. Sonke Neitzel shared the material with renowned and bestselling psychologist Harald Wezler and they set about trying to make sense of the vast piles of documents, the hours of transcripts. The result is SOLDATEN, a landmark book which will change the way we look at soldiers and war, and is as relevant to our modern conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as it was to the soldiers of the German Army in 1945. Published to huge acclaim and controversy in Germany it was a number one bestseller there and reignited the debate about the banality of evil under the Nazi regime.

Oddly, it is more expensive via Kindle than hardback, can recommend it though.

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catch - 22?

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WilBert wrote:catch - 22?
It highlights the thought process of the POW's, and endorses the sheer brutality of the regime.
Not a novel, more a series of transcripts with professional analysis.

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I'm thinking I might go for All Quiet on The Western Front.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

Btw I thoroughly recommend the book I mentioned in my opening post. Really well written and I can hardly put it down.

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Saw a documentary on 'The man who never was' the other evening. Not read the novel but a fascinating back story.

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Have ordered The Last Fighting Tommy, this afternoon. Just £1 on Ebay.

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