Hi all! I started reading again and am having trouble figuring out what to read next. I typically reach for anything that centers around WW1 and WW2, specifically personal accounts.
Recently, I finished Iron Coffins, They Called it Passchendaele and Panzer Operations. All 3 of these books are right up my alley and essentially what I am looking for.
If you have recommendations, I am all ears. I don’t care who wrote it or what side, Axis or Allied. Thanks in advance!
by chieflongballs
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You may enjoy “Patterns of Childhood” by Christa Wolf— about growing up in Germany before during and after WWII
I just read {{Johnny Gots his Gun}} – WOW.
Last year I read {{At Night All Blood is Black}} – another wild novel.
WW1
Siegfried Sasson: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
Robert Graves: Goodbye to all that
TE Lawrence: Revolt in the Desert
and the novel ALL Quiet on the Western Front by EM Remarque
WW2
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich, also Last Witnesses
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
Enigma by Hugh Sebag Montefiore
Novels:
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
If not now when by Primo Levi
Fair Stood the Wind for France by HE Bates
The First World War by Alan Woods
The Meaning of the Second World War by Ernest Mandel
If you’re looking for non-fiction, anything by Erik Larson but especially {{Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania}}
The Last Lion