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Been reading a book about what took place in the Katyn forest. And about the lies, and political play that followed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
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If you have Audible, I would recommend collecting the audio book. The narrator has a terrific sense of comedy and a perfect deadpan of sarcasm. Probably the best audio book I've ever heard about.
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I start reading Ulysses by Irish writer James Joyce. I tried to read this modernist novel several times already, but the maximum reached the third chapter. This time I want to read to the end, no matter how long it takes me.
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I start reading Ulysses by Irish writer James Joyce.

Ah, a true XX century classic. I read it when I was 15 or 16 IIRC. I might reread it now that you mention it.

I really liked the biography about Goebbels by [German historian] Peter Longerich. I plan to read his biography about Himmler too. But now starting How China Escaped Shock Therapy by Isabella M. Weber.
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Been reading a book about what took place in the Katyn forest. And about the lies, and political play that followed.
ORIGINAL: Mishalk1
If you have Audible, I would recommend collecting the audio book. The narrator has a terrific sense of comedy and a perfect deadpan of sarcasm. Probably the best audio book I've ever heard about.
Wow, he must be comic gold if he can make a book about Katyn funny. What's next, a book about Jack the Ripper?
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Been reading a book about what took place in the Katyn forest. And about the lies, and political play that followed.
ORIGINAL: Mishalk1
If you have Audible, I would recommend collecting the audio book. The narrator has a terrific sense of comedy and a perfect deadpan of sarcasm. Probably the best audio book I've ever heard about.
Wow, he must be comic gold if he can make a book about Katyn funny. What's next, a book about Jack the Ripper?
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Weird Tales magazine
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...except he was responding to Titanwarrior89 and not Orm
You mean he really wasn't referring to a book about Katyn? Color me shocked.
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...except he was responding to Titanwarrior89 and not Orm
You mean he really wasn't referring to a book about Katyn? Color me shocked.
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No, no he wasn't.
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...except he was responding to Titanwarrior89 and not Orm
You mean he really wasn't referring to a book about Katyn? Color me shocked.
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No, no he wasn't.
Yea. The book about Katyn, and the afterplay, wasn't funny. Anger, and/or sadness, was mostly what I felt when reading the book. So, no. No fun.
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Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich by Joachim C. Fest.
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I should be reading my WITE2 manual, but....

Italian Battleships is just such a good book. Seriously, if you are in any way interested in naval warfare - and the War In The Mediterranean in particular - then you should get this book.
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
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60% through Orbital by FxHolden

3rd book in the Future War series. Following Bering Strait snd Okinawa.

Near future political military thillers. [:)]



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I'm reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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This war is not about slavery. --Robert E. Lee
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When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, revised edition 2015 by Glantz and House

I'm amazed at how much more information there is on the Soviet side. The revised book expanded from 384 to 560 pages.
Russo-Soviet studies used to heavily rely on German accounts; this balances Soviet and German sources. Soviet failures that were previously glossed over get more attention. Non-combat activities are more prominent. Hard for a 1 volume history of the war to top this.

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Just finished this book, I recommend:
World War II at Sea: A Global History by Craig L. Symonds

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/361 ... -ii-at-sea
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After watching the First Season of "True Detective" I decided to try "Galveston", by the same writer (Nick Pizzolatto). He originally wanted to use this novel for the plot of the first season before deciding to write an original story. I read only few pages of the first chapter but I can recognise the poetic, even if in a different medium.

https://www.amazon.com/Galveston-Novel- ... oks&sr=1-1
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After watching the First Season of "True Detective" I decided to try "Galveston", by the same writer (Nick Pizzolatto). He originally wanted to use this novel for the plot of the first season before deciding to write an original story. I read only few pages of the first chapter but I can recognise the poetic, even if in a different medium.

https://www.amazon.com/Galveston-Novel- ... oks&sr=1-1
Galveston was made into a movie, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2315596/
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