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Prit Buttar: Retribution, The Soviet reconquesst of central Ukraine 1943 - 44.

Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counteroffensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942–43.

Beginning towards the end of the Battle of Kursk, Retribution tells the story of the massive Soviet offensive that followed the end of Operation Zitadelle, which saw depleted and desperate German troops forced out of Western Ukraine.

In this title, critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar describes in detail the little-known series of near-constant battles that saw a weakened German army confronted by a tactically sophisticated force of over six million Soviet troops.

As a result, the Wehrmacht was driven back to the Dnieper and German forces remaining in the Kuban Peninsula south of Rostov were forced back into the Crimea, a retreat which would become one of many in the months that followed.

01 – Summer 1943: The Decisive Shift
02 – The Mius
03 – Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev
04 – Akhtyrka and Bogodukhov
05 – Kharkov
06 – Attrition: From the Mius and Donets to the Dnieper
07 – The Dnieper Bridgeheads
08 – Krivoy Rog
09 – Kiev and Zhitomir
10 – Year's End
11 - A Year of Decision

 

I've been working on this one for the last week and a half. I'm almost 3/4 of the way through it!!!!

 

Red Traitor by Owen Matthews.

It's the second in a trilogy of books, set in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. It's historical fiction. The second book is set around the Cuban Missile Crisis. The first book was set in the weeks before the testing of the Tsar Bomb.

 

I'm reading fanfiction right now but my favorite series is split between The Wheel of Time or The Dune series

 

I’m reading My Big F’ing Life by Geddy Lee

 

The Trouble With Peace - Joe Abercrombie
(Book 2 of The Age of Madness Trilogy)

 

Le Morte D'Arthur

 

The Tokaido Road

 

I started just sort of re-reading and skimming through a few books I've already read but enjoyed.

* God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

* Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

* Crazy Like a Fox: The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later by Liam O'Rourke

and

* Star Wars: Book of Sith by Daniel Wallace

 

Sex story entitled 'Ranchland ch2' by Perverted1

 

I'm reading a mystery about a rash of teenage girls disappearing in Salem, and a woman who can see and talk with ghosts trying to solve the case to bring the girls home alive.
It's part of a 21 book series about a ghost hunter that communicates with ghosts to solve the mystery of their deaths.

 

A way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson!

 

A colleague of mine recommended this, so will give it a go.

 

Just started reading Lee Child - The Visitor, a Jack Reacher book.

 

The hungry caterpillar.... if anyone's read it, don't tell me the ending

 

The Eternal World by Christopher Farnsworth

 

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