69 Years Ago Today

[Electric_Strawberry]

heya Strawberry - welcome back!

Thanks.  I'm here all the time.  I just don't say much.   ;D

[besilarius]

Bawb, that's a tuffy.
For the movie, I favor Jimmy Cagney's The Gallant Hours
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/314547/Gallant-Hours-The-Movie-Clip-Guadalcanal.html

This was on the fighting on Guadalcanal through the actions of Bill Halsey.  My only real complaint is everyone is so damn polite and the marines are too clean.

For a book, you pre-empted my first choice, d'Este's Decision in Normandy.  Maybe Lucky Forward by a colonel who served on Third Army's staff during the war.

But my sentimental favorite would be Mailed Fist by Major Max Foley.  A very good work on living in a tank regiment.

[bob48]

^'Mailed Fist' is a damn good book, bes.

Actually, 'Overlord' by Max Hastings is not a bad read either, but not, I think, as good as D'Este.

[Longdan]

I'm with Bob.  I think Hasting's "Overlord" is one of the best reads along with "Seven Armies In Normandy" by the late John Keegan
but d'Este is the better analysis although I do not agree with every conclusion.

[bob48]

A book I read recently, 'Colossal Cracks' by Stephen Ashley Hart' is an analysis of how Monty handled the campaign and, I must say, changed some of opinions about him that I had held for a long time.

Its well worth a read for anyone interested in campaign from a 21st Army Group perspective and the leadership of both Brit 2nd and Canadian 1st Armies.

Its one of the 'Stackpole' books and is pretty cheap on amazon.

[besilarius]

Thanks, Bob, may pick this up.