[Billthedrill]

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Anthony Beevor. You don't want to keep reading it but you can't stop. Grim, horrifying, brutal.

The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 by William Shirer. The fellow who wrote Rise and Fall of the Third Reich examines what happened in France to make the fall of that country to the Wehrmacht so different from the heroism of Verdun. I'm finding it rather disturbing, actually.

Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 and Legends of the Mouse Guard - cute stuff, very lightweight but well-drawn. Anthropomorphic mice with tiny swords and derring-do. Just enough tongue-in-cheek to avoid a sugary overdose.

I just advance-ordered Paul Johnson's Socrates - kind of excited about that one. Can't wait.

[MplsSteve]

I read Beevor’s “Stalingrad” a few years ago. I enjoyed it.

For both sides, I can’t even imagine how horrifying the entire siege must have been - the hunger, the pain, the cold, etc.