Was Santa good to you?

Santa and other family well-wishers provided me with the following books for the holidays:

Target: Rabaul: The Allied Siege of Japan's Most Infamous Stronghold by Bruce Gamble

Pacific Blitzkrieg: World War II in the Central Pacific by Sharon Tosi Lacey

The U.S. Navy and the War in Europe by Robert C. Stern

Did you get any good titles?

No WWII books…

Santa was bad this year.

Bad Santa, bad!

A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II by Maury Klein
European Warfare in a Global Context, 1660-1815 (Warfare and History) by Jeremy Black..whom I like a lot.

ROMAN CONQUESTS: EGYPT AND JUDAEA
by John D Grainger
The Gathering Storm: Naval War in Northern Europe, September 1939 to April 1940 by Geirr Haarr...a really good looking book.
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy, another author I really enjoy.

RE: 2

Tim,

Is it possible that your Santa is a pacifist?

RE: 4

The Gathering Storm: The Naval War September 1939 to April 1940 by Geirr Haarr is definitely on my list of the top 10 naval WWII books of 2013.

The first gift I opened was The Monuments Men. I forced myself to open the other gifts before I started reading it.

>7 TLCrawford:

Oh. My mother gave me that last year. She has some connection to the author, as I recall. I'm interested to know if it's good.

So far yes, it is very good. I have had it on my wish list thanks to my interest in public history, I probably got it because George Clooney is making it into a movie.

I, too, received Target: Rabaul: The Allied Siege of Japan's Most Infamous Stronghold, March 1943 – August 1945 by Bruce D. Gamble. I also received:

MAGINOT LINE, THE: History and Guide, by J.E. Kaufmann et al.

The Hotton Report, by Robert K. McDonald

To Hell and Back, by Audie Murphy

When you're done with it, plus favor us with a review of the Maury Klein book. I've considered it, but it has received decidedly mixed reviews on Amazon.

It like to pick up the book by Haarr at some point....