Book recommendations

[dang65]

If you want to know the truth about WW2 you need to read different authors and never believe everything you hear from any single one.

The thing about Sven Hassel is that you read his stories, think "that's outrageous", then go and look up the facts and find that (most the time) it's all true. It was the first place I heard about the British SS corps - just a passing encounter in the book - which I guess is quite a well-known story now. Also, in one of his books he has a black German soldier as one of the characters, which sounds completely absurd, but there was a BBC documentary about them a few years ago.

He's usually dismissed outright by "serious historians", but you get a really different angle on everything. Bonus being the massive dose of gallows humour running through everything.

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

Gosh. Yet Another Book Thread started by Pondy. Who'd have thunk?

 

[Pondlife]

Cos I'm an intellectual innit.

 

[Croesus]

Anything by Redmond O'Hanlon. I'm currently re-reading "In Trouble Again".

Congo Journey was good. He also did another one about spending a week as a crew member on a North Sea trawler.

Brutal.