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u/angrydroid · 2 pointsr/WorldWar2

Hey, if you want a good read about Shermans in WW2 from the perspective of a guy who had to fix them I highly suggest checking out Death Traps.

u/OldHomeOwner · 3 pointsr/WorldWar2

As other users have said it wasn't just gas chambers, the nazi's used guns, herding people into building and starting them on fire, gas trucks and of course gas chambers. I would suggest yourself reading Ordinary Men it is a short book that explains the people behind the mass shooting deaths of millions in the East and the reason the nazi's changed to other forms. It is dark, it is depressing but it isn't technical, if you think your friend can handle it pass it on to him.

u/TheHIV123 · 2 pointsr/WorldWar2

I'm gonna warn you about that book. There is a lot wrong in it, and I do mean a lot. The guy gets basic things wrong. Like the thickness of the glacis plate on the Sherman, and what angle it was sloped at. And thats just one of the basic things he got wrong. He also accuses Patton of preventing the M26 Pershing from being deployed in France sooner. Patton of course had absolutely zero control over something like that but hey, the author didn't really know what he was talking about. Read the book as a memoir because thats essentially what it is, but don't read it as a history book, or even a book that gives one a good picture of the Sherman, because as I said, the author only really knew about what was right in front of him and nothing more.

If you actually want a good book on the Sherman read Armored Thunderbolt by Steven Zaloga.

u/cimmee1976 · 2 pointsr/WorldWar2

Anything by Clay Blair, he was a submariner during the war and a competent author.

https://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Sword-Untold-Battle-Midway/dp/1574889249

"Shattered Sword" by John Parshall and Tony Tully is an excellent volume on the "Battle of Midway". Parshall exposes the mythos of Midway by turning Fuchida's account of the battle on its ear. He accessed a mountain of primary sources rather than relying on Fuchida.

Parshall has several lectures on Y-tube, all of them are worth watching.

Be sure to watch any of the lectures sponsored by the Naval War College. Their line up is unusually competent and watchable.

There's a Ted Talk on the Norden bombsight that's enlightening as well.

Be sure to take a very critical eye when watching historical videos on Y-tube. There's a lot of crap on Y-tube.

Nicholas Moran "The Chieftan" does a very nice series on Y-tube about armored fighting vehicles. He does his own research and it shows. He is one of my favorites.

u/Themaster0fwar · 2 pointsr/WorldWar2

If you haven’t, I HIGHLY recommend reading a book called Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. It is the true story written from documents, interviews, and eye witness statements about how a simple Polish reserve police force became a death squad, murdering their own people. At the end it goes into social experiments on people conforming to authority figures such as The Milgram Experiment and The Stanford Prison Experiment.

It is extremely powerful and I actually had to put the book down and stop reading a few times because the descriptions of events were so heartbreaking. I cannot recommend this book enough.