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Favorite Bantam WWII Book?

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I bet, many of you are like me, I grew up reading the Bantam WWII series of books. I starting looking at the number of books produced and realized how many i have not read.

What is your favorite? I love Iron Coffins, Samurai & Company Commander.
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Here’s an interesting news story from yesterday. For technology buffs, note that Mr. Smoyer posed in front of a Sherman tank for the occasion (which was a nice touch), but that the tank in which he served as a gunner, and with which he destroyed a Panther, was a Pershing, a late-war 90mm-gunned well-armoured US tank which could take on the Panther on better terms than the thinly-armoured 75mm-gunned Sherman.

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WWII–-75th ANNIVERSARY DISCUSSION--#24---JULY 1941

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The First Battle of Smolensk was a large scale battle during the opening stage of Operation Barbarossa in World War II, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It took place in the region around the city of Smolensk between 10 July and 10 September 1941, about 400 km west of Moscow. At that point the Wehrmacht had advanced 500 km into the USSR in the mere 18 days that had elapsed since the start of the invasion on 22 June 1941. During the battle the German army encountered unexpected resistance, leading to a severe delay in their advance on Moscow.

Ultimately, three Soviet armies (the 16th, 19th and the 20th army) were encircled and destroyed just to the south of Smolensk, though significant numbers from the 19th and 20th managed to escape the pocket. Some historians have asserted that the losses in terms of men and materiel incurred by the Wehrmacht during this drawn-out battle, together with the 2-month delay in the march towards Moscow, were decisive for the Wehrmacht’s defeat by the Red Army at the end of the Battle of Moscow three months later in December 1941.

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Historians say that this battle had a profound effect on Germany’s drive to Moscow in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa.
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WWII Letters Finally Delivered

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Here’s a nice story:

9 war-time letters delivered to family after 70 years
Soldier Lawrence Price wrote to his mother and grandmother in Fredericton Junction but letters went astray
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Favorite Battle of Britain Aircraft

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to me it would have to the junkers ju-87…that sound it made when coming in for the attack was deafening and it would terrify you on the ground
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Looking for recommendations for non-fiction ww2 books

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The Second World War by John Keagan. Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45 by Alan Clark. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia by Lieutenant Colonel Eddy Bauer.
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If you could take one WWII Weapon, back to WWI, what would it be? (1942 limit)

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@Clyde85:

@ABWorsham:

I would be aiming for a German victory in WWI, the Allies had their chance and screwed up.

A German victory in WW1 would be ideal here, but I believe that you wouldn’t need to bring and weapons back with you, just a history book, and point to the few mistakes Germany made and say, “ok, now don’t do that, do this instead”.

If I had to choose a weapon though, i’m kinda torn. On the one hand, bringing back the StuG III would be great to help the Germans break the dead lock without a doubt, but I wonder how well German industry could support them once they went into action, long enough to break the front? Maybe. On the other hand, if I were to bring back the MG42, I know that German industry could support and and keep these weapons running, meaning longer usage and a greater chance of this weapon tipping the balance for a German victory.Â

Awesome points, the MG 42 would have shredded Allied ranks between the lines.
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Wow mallery29. Did not know that. My knowledge of US history is pre civil war to end of the war.
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Book by General Sir Miles Dempsey is found.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110433/General-Sir-Miles-Dempseys-secret-book-discovered-safe.html

First person knighted on battlefield since Agincourt in 1415

Great story.

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