The Books thread.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:05 am

What's going on in this thread?

Post by **Manoil** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:24 am

The party in my pants, dear boy. THAT'S what's going on.

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:07 pm

No were talking about World War 2 on the eastren front and books were reading related to WW2.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:19 pm

The Eastern Front is where the real shit went down, obv

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:02 pm

johnnygothisgun wrote:translating some of ciceros letters to atticus

I highly recommend some of Martial's epigrams...quite fun and obscene.

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:16 pm

Nicolai wrote:The Eastern Front is where the real shit went down, obv

For real, my main man.

Superhaze · Post by **Superhaze** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:50 am

As I said in the Total krieg thread I bought 4 books on my beloved (?) reich.

Die SS - Eine Warnung der Geschichte
Le Soldat OubliÃ©
The Nazies. A warning from history
Das Buch Hitler

Gotten about halfway through the SS book. Lots of photos and interesting trivia about the absurd way the boys in black operated. Good reading.

The second one is a biography(?) about a guy called Guy Sajer who fought in the Wehrmacht from beginning to end.

The Nazies, warning, history. Probably the same old same old, but it was cheap as shit thanks to the Mammoth sale at my local bookstore.

The Hitler book (book four) is about some documents (interrogation transcripts) found in the russian vault o' secrets. The germans were caught at the end of the war and apparantly stalin did not believe the Hitler suicide story. Looking forward to a good read.

...any recommendations? Non fiction only. :kthanksheil:

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:36 am

Superhaze wrote:Gotten about halfway through the SS book. Lots of photos and interesting trivia about the absurd way the boys in black operated. Good reading.

What do you mean by absurd, boys in black how about the boys in peadot or oakleaf is more suitable for the SS.

Superhaze · Post by **Superhaze** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:29 pm

I mean in the way a few hundred guys with black hats would end up beeing the guys running the place, and the 40,000+ brownshirts beeing useless fucktards. Thats absurd.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:31 am

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:41 pm

Brownshirts, in my view were useless to hitler and his Third Reich they were just arrogant street thugs with a swell guy leader.

Superhaze · Post by **Superhaze** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:06 pm

Simplistic and wrong. The "arrogant street thugs" were the main reason the NSDAP got as many votes as they did, because of the somewhat brutal way they got people to vote. RÃ¶hm on the other hand was gay, yes, but I hardly think that had any impact on his judgement, and he was quite sertainly a well liked leader among quite a large part of the german para-millitairy political movement at the time. His abilities to lead were never questioned, he only showed that he was not as cold a backstabber as Hitler was.

You have only proven one thing, and that is that you are more of a homophobe than 1930s germans. Huzzah!

Discussing this with an idiot is no fun. End of thread.

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:02 pm

Ok since your the expert on the SA and everything thats fine i respect that, but im more ofa man that studys the war not the pre war effects that started the fucking shootoff for 7 years or 9 counting Japenese invasion of Mancruia. But still being called on idiot in what you love to read about and study hurts.

Post by **Manoil** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:05 am

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:18 pm

That's actually good, well done

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:18 am

Just finished Huxley's Brave New World. Weird.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:32 am

Reading Karl Ullrich's Like A Cliff in the Ocean

Pretty good book on the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division. Plenty of first hand accounts and whatnot.

Superhaze · Post by **Superhaze** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:16 am

I'm surprised there are even people alive from the 3rd panzers that are willing to talk about what they were doing there.

Are these the guys who were at the Third Battle of Kharkov in -43?

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:39 pm

Nicolai wrote:Reading Karl Ullrich's Like A Cliff in the Ocean

Pretty good book on the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division. Plenty of first hand accounts and whatnot.

Weird title for a book, but sounds like a good buy, first hand accounts are the best, Just like in the book "Rome 44". I'm currently reading "All the Kasiers Men".

Jim the Dinosaur · Post by **Jim the Dinosaur** » Mon May 04, 2009 12:29 pm

bought massie's DREADNOUGHT a couple of days ago

: neverforget :