General @ Tuesday August 05, 2008 09:48 pm by WunderKraut

Finally Finished!

I finally finished Panzer Leader.

Yay!

It was a good book, but tough to get through because I’ve never studied the war on the Eastern Front and I’m not familiar with the campaigns and landscape.

My final assessment? General Heinz Guderian was a good man.

I may have been a little harsh on him in this post, but in the end, he was a good man. He held to his convictions and stood up to Hitler during the last year of the war when he was the Chief of Staff for the Eastern Front. His accounts of his encounters with Hitler were vivid and amazing to read.

He loved Germany and the Army. He claimed ignorance of the atrocities being committed and only focused on the military situation at hand. In that, he failed, as did the German people. But I tend to believe him, given how he stood up to Hitler.

Very good book.

Now on to some fiction. Should I read Lovecraft or Philip K. Dick?

4 Responses to “Finally Finished!”

  1. on 05 Aug 2008 at 10:42 pm   Crotalus

    Neither. Read Orson Scott Card, ‘Ender’s Game’. Or ‘Guns of the South’ Harry Turtledove. Two of the best science fiction books ever written.

    I’m not a big fan of Lovecraft, Cthulu notwithstanding. And, while I like the movie adaptations of PKD’s stuff, I don’t really like his writing style.

    Of the old Science Fiction masters, I dig Asimov and Bradbury. After that, Heinlein and Clarke.

    If you haven’t read Ender’s Game, catch up brother. (The enemy’s gate is down.)

  2. on 05 Aug 2008 at 10:58 pm   WunderKraut

    Never read Enders Game….so sad…

    Well, I spent good money on PKD and Lovecraft, so I feel I have to read them next. I really liked Man in the High Castle by PKD when I read it in college.

  3. on 06 Aug 2008 at 6:00 am   Crotalus

    Sad? It’s inexcusable! And you spent good money on…books??!! Dude, they have this thing now. It’s called the public library.

    Seriously, Georgia’s library system is awesome. You can recheck a book over the phone, put items on hold over the internet. And if they don’t have the book you want, as long as it is somewhere in Georgia in a public library, they will ship it to your local branch. All for free! Oh yeah, and if you are out of town, your library card is good anywhere in Georgia, and you can return that book to any branch anywhere in Georgia.

    It is simply the best thing since sliced bread.

  4. on 06 Aug 2008 at 6:50 am   WunderKraut

    Yeah, yeah, yeah….. I hear ya.