Looking for a book?

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Pete Dero

The Rise of Germany, 1939–1941: The War in the West and The Allies Strike Back, 1941–1943 (War in the West part II) by James Holland

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Germany-1939-1941-War-West-ebook/dp/B00XAQ1P46/
https://www.amazon.com/Allies-Strike-Back-1941-1943-West-ebook/dp/B01N0SMIHR/

The Struggle for Europe by Chester Wilmot

https://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Europe-Chester-Wilmot/dp/1568525257

Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe by Steven Mercatante and Dr. Robert M. Citino (who matt3916 mentioned)

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Germany-Nearly-Won-Technology-ebook/dp/B008MBQM42/

CaptainKoloth

Anyone know any good "Cold War Hot" novels with a significant. relatively accurate naval element beyond Red Storm Rising?

JasonPratt

One of our own Grogheads (nicknamed "Airborne Rifes") wrote such a good AAR on Bart Gavin's epic Northern Fury module for (the now kind of defunct) Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations from Matrix, that they partnered up to produce a novel series for Matrix!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R7BVQ31?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420

I haven't read them myself yet (too many shiny things to keep track of), but seemed relevant.
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!

JasonPratt

Quote from: Toonces on February 01, 2022, 08:04:44 PMAlright, this is a seemingly easy one.

I'm looking for a book that covers the European Theater of WW2.  No Pacific Theater, just European.

I have Atkinson's 3-volume trilogy, but I'm looking for something more from the German perspective, or something less U.S.-centric.

I also have Churchill's memoirs, but haven't read past the first volume; if that's a proper choice let me know that, too.

Well, you'll know by now whether you like Churchill's reporting and narrative style or not. It's certainly not from the German perspective, of course. And it isn't centric to Europe, although you can just sort of skip over other theaters (Pacific, East Front which he didn't know much about, Middle East, North Africa). I'm finishing up his final volume on WW2 this week! -- about to start his final chapter! (I started a year or two ago with the first volume of History of the English-Speaking Peoples. It has been a ride...)


I've had to kind of hot-patch together ETO accounts from the German perspective, and even that often combines Allied information. I'll see what I can come up with when I'm back at the house eventually. Shirer's classic Rise and Fall has interesting information but of course it's mostly not about the ETO (considered in proportion to its size).
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!

FarAway Sooner

They aren't first-person accounts, but I'll put in a glowing recommendation for Neptune's Inferno, by James Hornfischer.  While he's better known for Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, his observations of the US and Japanese Navy's conduct throughout the Guadalcanal campaign makes for an interesting historical arc.

There is a very strong emphasis on the US perspective.