HASLs and books
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apbills
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I have Utmost Savagery and Bloody Tarawa. I thought they were pretty good reads to orient me with the history of BRT.
Though it's been a decade or so since I read it, I found "The Devil's Adjutant" by Michael Reynolds (https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Adjutant-Jochen-Peiper-Panzer/dp/1848840101) to be a good read.
For FB I have https://www.amazon.com/Siege-Budapest-Hundred-Days-World/dp/0300119852/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477540634&sr=1-2.
For FB I have https://www.amazon.com/Siege-Budapest-Hundred-Days-World/dp/0300119852/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477540634&sr=1-2.
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So, you want people to list every history book ever written relevant for every HASL that has been published? Or would you like to narrow it down just a trifle?
klasmalmstrom
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Read it, enjoyed it. I would also recommend "One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa" - https://www.amazon.com/One-Square-Mile-Hell-Battle/dp/0451221389
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Alessandro D.
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Outside MMP, there is the Shield of Cholm HASL (LFT) with the following book (Leaping Horseman).
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I also have One Square Mile of Hell. An easier read than Utmost Savagery (albeit less detailed). I enjoyed it.
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Gunner Scott
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Well, if your into Stalingrad, Leaping Horsemen's Island of Fire and Death of the Leaping Horsemen are both excellent books on the battle.
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Alessandro D.
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Justiciar
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You could add "Into Oblivion" also by Jason Mark/Leaping Horseman Publishing to the list noted by others on S-grad, it has day-by-day on PiBn305.
James Dorian's "Storming St. Nazaire" would be applicable to STN Op Chariot (LFT).
James Dorian's "Storming St. Nazaire" would be applicable to STN Op Chariot (LFT).
Yuri0352
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Robert Forczyk 's 'Where The Iron Crosses Grow' would be a great companion volume to CH's Maxim Gorky, LFT 13, and anything else dealing with the Crimea.
von Marwitz
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This one is an excellent book. However note, that the level of detail which is quite extrordinary for the time before the Stalingrad fighting does decline gradually for the fighting in Stalingrad. This was due to the circumstances in which the author was surviving there. Still, it does provide a lot of insights and considerable detail even then.
von Marwitz
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See page vi 3d to last para. I am aware. But there is still some interesting detail on Bn in S-grad, not found in Mark's other books.
MatrimSaric
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I found death of the leap in horseman quite a hard read. Island of fire is good and into oblivion better.
I think Mr marks is improving as an author as he moves on.
I think Mr marks is improving as an author as he moves on.
MatrimSaric
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I wasn't to keen on that one. To much fiction interspersed with the fact. Though it does read more like a novel because of it..
GeorgeBates
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Could you provide some examples of what parts of his account are said to be fictional?
witchbottles
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There might be some truth to that statement, but the main issue with Ambrose works is not any " fictional"; nor his perhaps ill-supported theses presented ( as in the D-Day work that presents a direct challenge thesis to Monty in which the British general is flat out accused of purposefully "pulling the wool" over Ike's eyes about the intent and military end goals of Market-Garden. A thesis Ambrose fails to support well in the work.)
No, the largest issue with his works ( of which I am a BIG fan, btw, and own them all, including his Master's thesis and doctoral dissertation), is the blatant "mass production" slack writing that shows a significant disregard to citation as far back as college works for Ambrose. This of course, led to the flat out rejection ( by academia) of his work due to too many instances of plagiarism coupled with the earlier ill-supported theses within the works. Thy are excellent reads, the man is a masterful story teller ( or was), but you simply cannot reference his work in any way if you expect to maintain academic rigor in your research.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2002/01/the_plagiarist.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/05/us/2-say-stephen-ambrose-popular-historian-copied-passages.html
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/1/30/tolerating-plagiarism-stephen-ambrose-is-a/
http://www.weeklystandard.com/stephen-ambrose-copycat/article/2035
He makes good use in many ways, which can be used successfully, by scenario / HASL designers - look no farther than Peg Bridge, used as a primary reference in the TAHGC published HASL module. A sucessful game module, irrespective of the book's perceived or actual flaws.
KRL, Jon H