[CougarGA7]

My current reading list is pretty extensive for obvious reasons. I just finished up “Mirrors of Destruction” by Omer Bartov and “The Wansee Coference and the Final Solution” by Mark Roseman. My current reading is as follows:

Ordinary Men - Christopher R. Browning
A War to be Won - Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett
Why the Allies Won - Richard Overy
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II - Gerhard L. Weinberg
Partners in Command - Mark Perry

When I get some time to read a page or two for fun I’m slowly working through “Midway” by Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya (I only read about 5 pages a week right at the moment)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

My current read-as-time-permits book is fiction - an anthology of detective novels set in Berlin called "Berlin Noir," by Philip Kerr. I have heard from a couple sources, although not explicitly from the novel itself, "March Violets," that the first is supposed to take place in 1936. Early on there are references to German pilots flying in Spain, so I would think it is later than that. I thought the civil war began in 1937. Otherwise it is an enjoyable book. The blurb on the cover says "Philip Kerr is in a league with John Le Carre and Alan Furst." I don't know who Alan Furst is, but I have read lots of Le Carre and I don't know where the comparison comes from. Kerr comes from the Raymond Chandler school.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who is familiar with this author or his work. Especially people with actual knowledge of pre-war Berlin. The reviews I found on Amazon are favorable and say they are accurate, for what that is worth.