re: WWII books to read....

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With the Old Breed.

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Good book.

If you like personal books I'll recommend something from a different but extremely interesting angle, Reaping the Whirlwind by Nigel Cawthorne is made up of interviews and personal accounts of German and Japanese Soldiers and civilians through different stages of the war. There are a proverbial shite ton of books about the American experience in the war but to see it from the other side is kind of eye opening.

Those are just accounts from the "average" people involved on the Axis side. If you want something a little more highspeed then there's Skorzeny's Special Missions by Otto Skorzeny himself. How his life hasn't been made into a movie is beyond me.



Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy is the last thing I'll recommend. Fought the Western Allies, the Soviets and the Nazis and still managed to protect Finland's independence. He was pretty boss.