Monday, May 20, 2019

50 must reads or so to Egg your Brain





As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

As the saga of British historian John Keegan in his history of World War II,  in the bibliography he sources 50 must read books, which means none of you are ever going to get close to sniffing the glue on them and as I am in search of the Unicorn donation from wealthy  people, yes a generous donation where I could afford  a library and more importantly could read them.
As for now my first book I will read in my recuperation  will be the Memoirs of Douglas MacArthur which TL purchased for me for Christmas two years ago....yes we do have foolish hopes on the benevolent nature of the rich.


Ok here are the books.......it is supposed to be 50 of them.

  1. Kriegstagebuch des OKW der Wehrmacht - 8 volumes - P. Schramm
  2. The West Point Atlas of American Wars - Volume 2 - Colonel Vincent J. Esposito
  3. Hitler a Study in Tyranny - Alan Bullock
  4. Hitler's War - David Irving
  5. The German Army and the Nazi Party - Robert O'Neil
  6. Inside Hitler's Headquarters - W. Warlimont
  7. Inside the 3rd Reich - Albert Speer
  8. Hitler's War Directives - H Trevor Roper
  9. The Last Days of Hitler - H Trevor Roper
  10. The Origins of the Second World War - A J P Taylor
  11. To Lose A Battle - Alistair Horne
  12. Why France Fell - Guy Chapman
  13. Parades and Politics at Vichy - Robert Paxton
  14. The Breaking Wave - Telford Taylor
  15. Hitler's Strategy, The Balkan Cue - Martin van Creveld
  16.  The Struggle for Crete -  I M G Stewart
  17. The Desert Generals - Correlli Barnett
  18. The Soviet High Command - John Erickson
  19. The Road to Stalingrad - John Erickson
  20. The Road to Berlin - John Erickson
  21. German Rule in Russia - A. Dallin
  22. Comrades in Arms - Joan Beaumont
  23. The Continental Committee - Michael Howard
  24. The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War - Michael Howard
  25. Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare - Volume 1 - E. Snell
  26. Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare - Volume 2 - M. Matloff
  27. Continental Decisions - K R Greenfield
  28. British Intelligence in the Second World War - FH Hinsley
  29. The Hut Six Story - Gordon Welchman
  30. Ultra Goes To War - Ronald Lewin
  31. Thee American Magic - Ronald Lewin
  32. Very Special Intelligence - P Beesly
  33. Ultra in the West - R Bennett
  34. A History of Modern Japan - Richard Storry 
  35. Empires in the Balance - H P Wilmont
  36. Eagle against the Sun - Ronald Spector
  37. Coral Sea - Midway and Submarine Operations - Samuel Elliot Morison
  38. Allies of a Kind - Christopher Thorne
  39. War, Economy and Society - Alan Milward
  40. The Design and Development of Weapons - MM Postan
  41. Bomber Command - Max  Hastings
  42. Donitz the Last Fuhrer - Peter Padfield
  43. The Struggle for Europe - Chester Wilmot
  44.  The Shadow War - H Michael
  45. Thee Embattled Mountain - F W Deakin
  46. Life with the Enemy - W Rings
  47. The Final Solution - G Rightlinger
  48. With the Old Breed - E B Sledge
  49. Wartime - M Dejilas
  50. Berlin Diaries - Marie Vassiltchikov
  51. The Past is Myself - Christable Bielenberg
  52. Armed Truce, The Beginnings of the Cold War - Hugh Thomas
So we learn from the above that British historians can not count like Obama the Kenyan. Anyway, honestly, I have only read the Speer book, because I got it for free from a family who was giving away their parents collections of books and things, and we went back the last day and loaded up on things. Nice dog I seem to remember and the family was too.

Anyway that is the filler for this in the conclusion of all you learned in God's Inspiration of me in the reading of Keegan's work based on all the work of these other egg brains.

Now time for something pretty in those stuffy old books.






Nuff Said

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