Couple of sites for you Kindle readers... 
I've recommended this one before, but it's well worth visiting purely because of its search facilities..
http://uk.freereadfeed.com/
This one is a new one though:
http://www.dailyfreebooks.co.uk/free_ebooks/latest/
...and has already yielded some interesting choices, for the track heads among us the following may be worth a read..?? All these are free by the way, and I've not read them (yet) so I have no view on whether the SS one's will turn out to be some hideous apologist essay... from the reviews the first one appears to be a very in depth divisional history with a lot of detail on all their engagements in Normandy and sounds quite interesting...
Aaron Elson attended a reunion of the 712th Tank
Battalion, with which his father served in World War II, a few years
after his father's death. He returned two reunions later, in 1989, with a
tape recorder, and has been preserving the stories of World War II
veterans ever since. When he arrived at that first reunion, one of the
first things he saw was a bumper sticker on a car outside the hotel. It
said "Tanks for the Memories." What he quickly realized was that the
memories the veterans shared in the hospitality room, they rarely shared
with their families. Aaron Elson's work as an oral historian has been
used as source material in more than two dozen book in the U.S. and
"across the pond," as well is in about a dozen documentaries including
"The Color of War" and "Patton 360." "Tanks for...
I've recommended this one before, but it's well worth visiting purely because of its search facilities..
http://uk.freereadfeed.com/
This one is a new one though:
http://www.dailyfreebooks.co.uk/free_ebooks/latest/
...and has already yielded some interesting choices, for the track heads among us the following may be worth a read..?? All these are free by the way, and I've not read them (yet) so I have no view on whether the SS one's will turn out to be some hideous apologist essay... from the reviews the first one appears to be a very in depth divisional history with a lot of detail on all their engagements in Normandy and sounds quite interesting...
The defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy
soldiers Written by the division's former chief of staff Volume one
details all aspects of the division's history with a balanced mix of
both tactical and strategic accounts, including the creation and
training of these teenage warriors and their baptism of fire in the
Normandy campaign in World War II...
Extraordinary story of a Dutch volunteer in the
Waffen-SS Vivid details on SS training and combat on the Eastern
Front Account of the little-known siege of Breslau in early 1945 Dutch SS
accounts are very rare, particularly ones that describe recruiting,
training, and frontline service as completely and colourfully as In the
Fire of the Eastern Front. Hendrick C. Verton volunteered for the
Waffen-SS in early 1941 and fought on the Eastern Front until the end of
the war as a member of the 5th SS Panzer Division and SS Regiment
Besslein....
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