DODReads Group discussion

Tell us what you are reading, right now, as long as it is a book related to the group interests. Add the cover (click add book/author) above.

Right now, I am reading (just a few pages shy of finishing) My Fellow Soldiers by Andrew Carroll. An interesting portrait of General John Pershing told through the exploits and experiences of the men and women around him over the years leading up to and during the First World War.
Look for a book review soon on DODReads

You might be interested to learn what POWs read during WWII -- and how hard it was to come by books at the time and under those conditions.
This from the Mighty Eighth Museum in Savannah, Georgia.
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Reading was an important way to pass the time as an evader in hiding, a POW and an airman waiting for the next mission. Books were precious possessions.
Belgian Helper Anne and Yvonne Brusselmans kept books in their home for evaders staying with the family. Evaders needed books in English while waiting to be processed before starting their trip on one of the escape lines.
The Red Cross delivered YMCA donated books to the POW camps for the POWs to read. Stalag Luft III bunk mates LT William Styles and LT Clifford Dartt both passed the time reading. Styles kept a long list of all the books he read in his "A Wartime Journal" and Dartt carried a copy of "The Best of Carlyle" on their forced march. Note the YMCA and Stalag Luft 3 stamps on the book's pages.
What books have you read recently? I keep a list of good books with me so that I can recommend them to friends and museum visitors. What book would you carry and keep with you?
The Brusselmans' story is featured in the museum's Downed Airmen: Escape and Evasion exhibit.
From the William Styles Education Collection
From the Clifford Dartt Education Collection
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force

Lonny wrote: "The Gathering Storm Just Started reading The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill, fascinating !"

I'm working my way through his volumes ... they were something my father had on his bookshelf and I ignored them while growing up! As they say education is wasted on the young.