Hey fellow readers,
I just started reading from this year few of the books I read are :-
Kafka on the shore
The Alchemist
The Richest Man In Babylon
Guhnaho ka devta (about to finish) (it's and Hindi book)
And the I'll start reading after guhnaho devta
Is The DaVinchi Code By Dan Brown
I'm very interested in learning of about WW1 and WW2 can you guys suggest the books I should read?
And any other good books for beginners
I know I'm all over the place with the genre i'm reading I'm just trying to find the style of writing I like so I thought I'll start with books which are easy to read.
by Additional_Half_1329
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For WWI, All Quiet on the Western Front and Storm of Steel.
For WWII, I haven’t read any books about it yet but I plan to start with Band of Brothers and Helmet for my Pillow. Basically the books that the HBO series were based on.
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Great WW2 book. It follows Churchill and the war from the British perspective.
**The Second World War** by *Antony Beevor* is a a fantastic book about the entire conflict.
**The Sleepwalkers** by *Christopher Clark* explains the events that caused the First World War.
WWI:
* *The Guns of August* by Barbara Tuchman.
* *1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War* by Allan Mallinson.
* *The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916* by Sir Alistair Horne.
* *Storm of Steel* by Ernst Jünger.
The Pacific War:
* *Code Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan—and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb* (1995) by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar.
* *The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire,1936-1945* by John Toland.
* *Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire* (1999) by Richard B. Frank.
* *Truman and the Hiroshima Cult* (1995) by Robert P. Newman.
* *Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II* (2020) by Marc Gallicchio.
* *The Making of the Atomic Bomb* by Richard Rhodes.
* *The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II* by Iris Chang.
* *Unit 731: Testimony* by Hal Gold.
* *Japanese Destroyer Captain* by Tameichi Hara, Fred Saito and Roger Pineau.
* *Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway* by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully.
* *Burma: The Longest War 1941-45* by Louis Allen.
* *Saipan: The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II* by James H. Hallas.
* *The Battle for Tinian: Vital Stepping Stone in America’s War Against Japan* by Nathan N. Prefer.
* *With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa* by E.B. Sledge, CPL, 1st Mar. Div., U.S.M.C.
* *Ray Parkin’s Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom* by Ray Parkin, Chief Petty Officer, Royal Australian Navy.
* *Hiroshima* by John Hersey.
* *Return of the Enola Gay* by Paul W. Tibbets.
* *Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan* by Bruce Lee.
* *Thank God for the Atom Bomb* by Paul Fussell.
* *Japan’s Secret War: Japan’s Race Against Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb* by Robert K. Wilcox.
* *The Prisoner and the Bomb* by Laurens van der Post. CPT, British Intelligence Corps.
* *Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II* in the Pacific by Gavan Daws.
* *Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb* by George Fiefer.
* *Kokoda* by Paul Ham.
* *The Battle for Manila: The Most Devastating Untold Story of World War II* by Richard Connaughton.