Sooky Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Defenetly one of the better Sven Hassel books, "Blitzfreeze" is another of my favourites, the Germans and the Russians just hating one another. Here's a green dot for liking Sven. I've currently read: SS General Liquadate Paris Wheels of Terror Comrades of War Reign of Hell Asignment Gestapo I was just about to start Monte Cassino but may read Blitzfreeze first. Still about 5 books that I don't own which I'll need to find and I really want to read Legion of the Damned. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stimpy Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Monte Cassino was the first one I read, many moons ago, and is another favourite. I thought I had 2 copies of Legion of the Damned but alas only one was found. My house has that "just burgled" look so it could still be hiding away in a corner somewhere. There you go £2.72 delivered to your door. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) just finnished in the belly of the beast by jack abbot. brilliant. 9.5/10 - a book about life in prison in america writen by someone who spent pretty much his whole life in prison. In prison he starts reading every book he can get his hands on and become quite knowledgeble. he also writes about other random things. half way through the penguin krishnamurti reader by krishnamurti - just him writing about stuff and how to start a revolution in yourself and hopefully society . An education and insparational Edited July 23, 2010 by jojo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooronron Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Shantaram....Gregory David Roberts......excellent, but at over 900 pages it does take over your life for a while 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endieinreekie Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I've currently read: SS General Liquadate Paris Wheels of Terror Comrades of War Reign of Hell Asignment Gestapo I was just about to start Monte Cassino but may read Blitzfreeze first. Still about 5 books that I don't own which I'll need to find and I really want to read Legion of the Damned. I used to love his books when I was younger and I am pretty sure I had managed to get all of them. I think, if I remember correctly, that Legion of the Damned was the final book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I used to love his books when I was younger and I am pretty sure I had managed to get all of them. I think, if I remember correctly, that Legion of the Damned was the final book. Yeah, but theres no real order to any of them though is there? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endieinreekie Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Yeah, but theres no real order to any of them though is there? Not really, but you can tell which campaigns the guys are serving in which would give you a rough idea of which order the books should be in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Not really, but you can tell which campaigns the guys are serving in which would give you a rough idea of which order the books should be in. Yeah but it doesn't really matter if you don't read them in right order. Theres sometimes only 1 or 2 references to older campaigns that they done in other books. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint dave Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I used to love his books when I was younger and I am pretty sure I had managed to get all of them. I think, if I remember correctly, that Legion of the Damned was the final book. I think Legion Of The Damned was the "original"book it followed them from the start of the war til the end.think it was more or less Sven Hassels war diary,the later novel were made after the success of this one and were certainly fictional 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 The last book that I read was one that was given to me called The Interpretation of Murder. It was a weird story, which was partially based on Sigmund Freud's visit to America, with him having to solve a murder whilst there. The thriller part of is was adequate enough, but I thought that it took unacceptable liberties with historical fact, for instance in portraying Jung as an unstable anti-Semite. Whilst that is certainly one school of opinion, and the debate over it is an interesting one, should it really be being presented as fact in a novel? I'd say not. Reading Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette: The Journey at the moment. Very enjoyable so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endieinreekie Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Yeah but it doesn't really matter if you don't read them in right order. Theres sometimes only 1 or 2 references to older campaigns that they done in other books. True. I certainly didn't read them in any order and still really enjoyed them 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endieinreekie Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I think Legion Of The Damned was the "original"book it followed them from the start of the war til the end.think it was more or less Sven Hassels war diary,the later novel were made after the success of this one and were certainly fictional Ahhh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaKnollBoy Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada - an account of two people's small-scale campaign against Hitler in Berlin during WW2. Written by a German in 1946, so pretty authentic and very moving. Highly recommended. Also just read this and I would highly recommend it also. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 True. I certainly didn't read them in any order and still really enjoyed them Although my one complaint would be that I do sometimes notice small mistakes in it. Of course that may not be Sven's fault and instead the fault of the translator or something but just something I sometimes notice ie. "As Barcelona was at the hispital" I assume that was meant to be "hospital" as his stomach was ripped out and "i" and "o" are next to each other on the keyboard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hey! Ho! Jambo! Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Recently finished Endgame by David Rohde. A fantastic book about the fall of Srebrenica and the massacre that followed. It covers each of the last days of the enclave from all sides speaking to Dutch peace-keepers, Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Muslims, JNA soldiers and so on. Packed full of gore to be honest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 I know I should probably post this in the bargain basement, but as it's specifically a book site I thought here was as good a place as any. Get two box sets of books for £16. There's a lot of rubbish here, but also some decent efforts like Paulo Coelho and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. There's even a box of all seven of the Adrian Mole diaries. Oh, and if you type in the code Y040 you'll get free delivery. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Reading Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette: The Journey at the moment. Very enjoyable so far. Wasn't convinced with this in the end. Not bad and gave an alternative view of one of the most unfairly vilified women in history, but the constant attempts to justify every aspect of her life grated a bit. You were left almost with the feeling that the author thinks that France would've been better off had there never been any revolution. Still, if you managed to overlook those parts it was an interesting read. I've also recently fanished David Gemmell's Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow. It'd best be described as historical fantasy, and is the first in a trilogy about the Trojan war. I enjoyed it, and am looking forward to the second in the trilogy turning up so that I can carry on with it. At the moment, I'm reading La Préférence Nationale by Fatou Diome. It's a collection of short stories written from the point of view of a Senegalese immigrant to France, describing the racism that she has to put up with on an everyday basis. I'm only really reading it to keep my French up to scratch, but parts of it grate with me, chiefly the paranoid tone. Reading it, one could be forgiven for thinking that every single white French person is a despicable racist, constantly addressing every black person that they encounter as 'tu' (as opposed to 'vous') and treating them like they're uneducated simpletons. The over the top tone detracts from the message. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footiechick Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Spies by Michael Frayn The "spies" are German spies in war-time England that the young boys think are around every corner. An older Stephen looks back on this childhood summer and the events that happened with his friends and neighbours that changed his future. Good read, fair enjoyed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivo den Bieman Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Also just read this and I would highly recommend it also. Yeah, it's a fantastic book,, few are as good as this author at getting across the claustrophobic pettiness of living in a dictatorship. I also read Wolf Amongst Wolves by the same author earlier this year, a similar style of writing set in the hyper-inflation year in Berlin in late 1923, and it was just as compelling. Falladas was almost impossible to find in English translation for a long time, so it;s good to see his novels coming out in new editions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Joint Force Harrier - It was a birthday present and the quotes on the front were from the NotW and Zoo magazine. Hmm. It was the equivalent of the old Commando books that you got in the '70s and '80s. It was all about some Harrier jump jets, flown by service types, with their typical joyless humor (I bet these are the c***s you really avoid in the pub, who have no pals other than other forces types) killing Taliban by dropping bombs on them. A couple of years ago I purchased Sniper One, before going on honeymoon. While it was also a glorified Commando book, it was a more entertaining Commando book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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