Just started reading "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" by Theodore Roscoe. Got it from my local library. It's pretty good, but it has obviously seen a lot of use. As far as I can tell its an original edition from 1949, and unfortunately sometime between then and now someone ripped page 16 out of the book because it had a schematic of a Gato-class submarine on it. That's one page so far I didn't get to read :(

Walking Dead Series :yep:

Rereading Ed Beach's Run Silent Run Deep.

A true sub classic. :yeah:

Two completed of late, one of them revisited.

One generally connects Richard Hough with naval history such as The Great War at Sea or The Fleet that had to Die but with Buller's Dreadnaught he has written a novel of the Edwardian Royal Navy, a period almost untapped in fiction, naval or otherwise. Very readable and technically sound Buller's Dreadnaught should provide anyone with an interest in that period with a quick and enjoyable read.

Those who might believe that Americans always need overwhelming technical or firepower superiority to win should sit down with The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer. Verbosely subtitled "The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour" it is a gripping account of the escorts of Taffy 3 at the action off Samar during the Battle of Leyte in October 1944.

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I completely forgot about that book. I read it years ago. It's a sequel, the first one being called Buller's Guns. Both are a lot of fun.

Make sure you read his followups in the "trilogy":
"Dust on the Sea"-starts out where "Run SIlent, Run Deep" leaves off.
"Cold is the Sea"-Cold War story with the same characters.

:)

Picked up a couple of old paperbacks lost in a cross-country move many years ago:

A Ship of the Line by C.S. Forrester, one of the better (and earlier) Hornblower novels.

and

Three Corvettes by The Cruel Sea author Nicholas Monserrat.

For non-fiction about one-third of the way through The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-18 by Mark Thompson.

I have been meaning to order the other two books. He is a good writer. :yep:

Starting tonight Robert Harris' Fatherland. Heard many a good thing about this one. :up:

Re-reading "The Real Cruel Sea" by Richard Woodman

I have this and it is a great book. Reads like fiction more than historical sub ops. Sorry your copy was missing pages.

Germany won...Damn I gave away the...No wait it's not the plot. :haha:

Never read it Dowly but I saw the film.

When Money Dies

The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation

By Adam Fergusson

Great read, now up to the point where the printing presses are going like the clappers and the first 100,000-mark note released in Jan 1923, it's purchasing power is little more than $2.

Go Like Hell, Ford, Ferrari, and their battle for speed and glory at Le Mans.
By A.J. Baime.
I read it once before and I'm reading it again. Books about racing outside of NASCAR are few and far between.

Right now I'm reading Evil Serial Killers by Charlotte Greig.