What book are you reading at the moment ?

Paddywhacked –T J English – Irish American gangs from 1700’s to present day  - very good

Barbarossia – Alan Clark – decent read

1812 – Anthony Brett  James – Napoleans retreat from Moscow which became a rout – very good German generals didn’t learn the lessons

An Accidental diplomat – Eamon Delaney – memoirs of an irish diplomat – decent/funny read

Ivans War – Catherine Merridale- Russian soldiers in the war

The Phoenix Park Murders – Sean Molony – decent read

Downfall – Traudl Junge  - movie based on the book on one of hitlers secretarys

The Good German of Nanking – John Rabe – German missionary who witnesses the Japanese rape of Nanking – harrowing but an excellent book

Blood Sweat and arrogance – Gordon Corrigan – some of Churchills failings

Ribbentrop – Michael Bloch – very interesting book on him

Lindberg – A Scott Berg – very interesting book and covers his baby son’s abduction well, complex character, isolationist with pro German leanings

Jack London – Alex Kershaw – bio of the author of Call of the Will, exciting life

Kursk – Lloyd Clark – pretty good account of the battle

Tales by Japanese Soldiers – Tamayama & Nunnely – interesting perspective

Donitz – The Last Fuhrer – Peter Padfield – bio of the German Naval admiral

Dirty Tricks – BA’s war against Virgin – Martin Gregory – how BA tried to bankrupt the then fledgling Virgin Atlantic – great read on industrial dirty tricks from the Conservative Partys pet

The Lost Years – The Emergency in Ireland – 39-45 = Tony Gray – from memory a decent read

Dead man in a Bunker – Martin Pollack – excellent book on a father he didn’t know who was a mid ranking Nazi officer

1938 Hitlers Gamble – Giles Macdonagh – very good chronilogical account of the year

A Women in Berlin – anonymous – a woman experience at the end of the war

King Leopolds Ghost – Adam Hochschild – cracking read about the rape of the congo by Belgian king

Luftwaffe Fighter Ace – Norbert Hannig – decent enough account

Batavia’s Graveyard – Mike Dash – a real life lord of the flies in 1700’s, dozens of survivor of a shipwrecked as murdered by other survivors – very good