I've been meaning to pick up a book I just saw referenced on the Samizdata blog - "Armageddon - The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945". So far, the only thing stopping me is the really, really melancholy nature of the subject - I'm both interested and repelled. I'll get to that book eventually, but there's another WWI related tome I intend to pick up first - "Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World". I've been trying to get a handle on the first world war, and I really have to go through the post-armistice conference to get a fuller picture. Maybe I'll be able to turn my attentions to a different topic after that; at the moment, I'm kind of immersed...