Books.

I have had two I wanted to read and just finished one of them. 

"The Filthy Thirteen" which was a memoir of a WW2 paratrooper. I finished it wondering how accurate it really was. Much of it sounded a little over the top to me regarding his run-ins with officers and NCOs.

The other one arriving soon is "The Simple Sounds of Freedom" which is about the only USGI ever to join the Russian Army.

He was captured a few days after D Day in France, escaped from the PW camp a couple of times, finally making good an escape where he worked his way east and met the Russian forces. 

Instead of asking the Russians for repatriation he simple joined the Soviet Army and fought alongside them for a while.  Later he was wounded and sent to a hospital. 

A Soviet general was visiting and found out the non-Russian was there and made arrangements to return him to the States.

I kind of like off the wall WW2 incidents. It makes for good reading. Especially when it's about ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

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