WWII books for my father

As an aside, the programme was also very good. Personally, I quite like Clarkson anyway, but even if you don’t his documentaries are excellent. St. Nazaire, the Arctic Convoys and Brunel are the ones I know about and have seen.

A book I enjoyed was return via Dunkirk by Gun Buster – a first hand account of the BEF in 1940. Apparently there were three other books from the same author ( a pseudonym).

I also have the Greatest Raid of All by CE Lucas Phillips- the one that Mr. Clarkson made a programme about on the St. Nazaire raid. The book is good. 

BB

For a ‘nuts and bolts’ overview it’s hard to better David Edgerton’s ‘Britains War Machine’,  ISBN:  978-0-14102-610-7 or, same author, ‘England and the Aeroplane’,  ISBN: 978-0-14197-516-0

Best wishes to your dad ! 

Tom Neils  books are very readable   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neil  ,

Thanks for the recommendations. It is much appreciated.

I ordered all the books listed above and my father has read about 2/3 so far(except The Lost Continent which is book about the Euro crisis and is being read by me).

Therefore, I was wondering if anybody has any other recommendations. This is more for high quality general overview books f the war instead of detailed airplane books(which is what I tend to read).

Thanks

My suggestions are :

Sigh for a Merlin – Alex Henshaw

Malta Convoy – Peter Shankland (as part of 3 Great War Stories – Malta Convoy; Tinkerbelle & Unbroken)

Try any of these:

War in the West  –  James Holland

Never Surrender  –  Robert Kershaw

Most Dangerous Enemy  –  Stephen Bungay  ***

The War for the Seas  –  Evan Maudsley

The Storm of War  –  Andrew Roberts

Operation Pedestal  –  Max Hastings

Normandy 44  –  James Holland

Nemesis  –  Max Hastings

Sicily 43  –  James Holland

The Lost Continent  –  Gavin Hewitt

All, excellent accounts.