Need another interesting book about WW11 to read.
Thinking about the Royal Navy or Merchant Navy.
Read Macintyre, Walker etc and all those popular ones. Unfortunate that not so many books have been written about the RN but an out standing number about the RAF.
Any ideas please ?
To give you a Title to read. I am just finishing for about the 8th time. Assignment to Catastrophe by Gen. Edward Spears. He was Churchill's liason man with the French Premier & Government just before the capitulation of France. He was an MP & Liason officer with the French high command during WW1. So he knew all of the politicians & the French High Command officers during WW11.
It is an incredible story of the French intrigue amongst the politicians themselves & disintergration of the Army command. The main figures being PM Reynaud, Gen Petain (politician in the cabinet at that time) & Gen. Weygand the commander of French Forces. It has Reynauds wife controlling appointments. It has Churchill at his most commanding who at each meeting told the French Britain would fight on & win. You may have read Weygand predicted England's neck would be rung like a chickens. Churchill's in his famous American Speech stating some neck some chicken.
It is the most incredible book I have read impossible in fiction.
Laurie
Thinking about the Royal Navy or Merchant Navy.
Read Macintyre, Walker etc and all those popular ones. Unfortunate that not so many books have been written about the RN but an out standing number about the RAF.
Any ideas please ?
To give you a Title to read. I am just finishing for about the 8th time. Assignment to Catastrophe by Gen. Edward Spears. He was Churchill's liason man with the French Premier & Government just before the capitulation of France. He was an MP & Liason officer with the French high command during WW1. So he knew all of the politicians & the French High Command officers during WW11.
It is an incredible story of the French intrigue amongst the politicians themselves & disintergration of the Army command. The main figures being PM Reynaud, Gen Petain (politician in the cabinet at that time) & Gen. Weygand the commander of French Forces. It has Reynauds wife controlling appointments. It has Churchill at his most commanding who at each meeting told the French Britain would fight on & win. You may have read Weygand predicted England's neck would be rung like a chickens. Churchill's in his famous American Speech stating some neck some chicken.
It is the most incredible book I have read impossible in fiction.
Laurie