Current reading: September 2023

First out of the gate with Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare; grim reading, but this monograph has useful things to say about the Nazi program of genocide, and how the SS conducted its business.

>1 Shrike58: Please let me know what you think of the book it sounds interesting.

>2 AndrewPNW: What's particularly interesting about the monograph is that Pieper is as interested in the Waffen-SS cavalry as a military formation as he is in the war-crimes perspective. I suspect that's part of the reason that this work hasn't gotten the attention I think it probably deserves. The folks focused on Nazi war crimes probably don't care about the military and organizational aspects of the story, whereas the students of the Waffen-SS are probably less interested in dwelling on the criminality of it all.

Going to mention the Spomenik Monument Database here, as while this is mostly an art history book, for the most part these monuments commemorated specific battles of Tito's partisans during World War II.

Finished an excellent Torpedo Terror: 1914-18 U-boat War by Richard Freeman. While it does some relating of U-boat attacks and anti-submarine actions, the book is primarily focused on the broader view, including the political aspects as well and the economic ones.

Knocked off Italy 1636, which is mostly an examination of the Bourbon-Habsburg fight at Tornavento; a 14-hour fire-fight no one was in a hurry to repeat.

Finished up Fire And Steel: The End Of World War Two In The West, a worthy third book in an excellent trilogy; I look forward to what subject the author tackles next.

>7 Shrike58: I somehow have the feeling you meant Fire and Steel: The End of World War Two in the West by Peter Caddick-Adams.

>8 jztemple: Did it not register as that for you? Because that's what it's showed for me when I posted it.

In other news, I finished Fighters over the Fleet. Or more accurately, it finished with me! The second half of the book is much more insightful than the first half, but really, really dense.

>9 Shrike58: Fire and Steel didn't show as the Peter Caddick-Adams book for me, it showed as the G. R. R. Martin book. LibraryThing is weird sometimes!