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kipt
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« Reply #3540 on: 16 November 2020, 03:17:25 AM »
Finished "The Waterloo Archive: Volume III: British Sources", edited by Gareth Glover.

More letters from participants.  In some cases different information is presented that is different than the written historical record.  Some are hearsay, but others were participants so seem correct.
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« Reply #3541 on: 16 November 2020, 07:25:34 AM »
beware the eyewitness, the most unreliable form of evidence
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« Reply #3542 on: 16 November 2020, 08:57:16 AM »
Quote from: ianrs54 on 16 November 2020, 07:25:34 AM
beware the eyewitness, the most unreliable form of evidence

Particularly if written or recounted some time after the events described.
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« Reply #3543 on: 16 November 2020, 11:58:58 AM »
Benedek and the Exploits and Fate of the k. k.  North Army 1866 by Moritz Freiherr von Ditfurth k. u. k. Oberleutnant a. D
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« Reply #3544 on: 16 November 2020, 12:54:23 PM »
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« Reply #3545 on: 16 November 2020, 07:12:25 PM »
Quote from: flamingpig0 on 16 November 2020, 12:54:23 PM


I’m feeling Athena Voltaire and the Sorcerer Pope is the most pulp book title ever!
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« Reply #3546 on: 17 November 2020, 11:44:30 AM »
Finished H.G. Wells War of the Worlds - a reread from many years ago.
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« Reply #3547 on: 17 November 2020, 02:56:24 PM »
Listening to H2G2 for the umpteenth time.  Smiley

Cheers - Phil Smiley
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« Reply #3548 on: 17 November 2020, 03:14:05 PM »
Just finished watching Harlock: Space Pirate on Amazon Prime, a glorious, ludicrous, space opera romp, somewhere between Battle Beyond the Stars and Dread Pirate Roberts in theme and tone.
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« Reply #3549 on: 17 November 2020, 04:10:01 PM »
The Battle Cry of Freedom by McPherson on the ACW. Just started but very readable and full of interesting info, setting the scene for the conflict.
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« Reply #3550 on: 17 November 2020, 04:20:58 PM »
I'm plowing through a collection of H.R Rider-Haggard - the attitudes have changed loads fortuneatly
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« Reply #3551 on: 17 November 2020, 05:18:22 PM »
Quote from: ianrs54 on 17 November 2020, 04:20:58 PM
I'm plowing through a collection of H.R Rider-Haggard - the attitudes have changed loads fortuneatly

Years a go I did some tutoring at a young offenders institute and the daft charity I worked for had bought a load of H .R. Rider-Haggard books for the inmates.
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« Reply #3552 on: 20 November 2020, 04:51:26 PM »
Finished "Send For Freddie: The Story of Montgomery's Chief of Staff Major-General Sir Francis de Guingand, KBE, CB, DSO" by General Sir Charles Richardson.

Interesting person and well written.  Montgomery comes in for his share of being a difficult person, but he did really like Freddie.

Enjoyed it.
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« Reply #3553 on: 22 November 2020, 08:55:45 AM »
Did anyone else watch the Channel 5 three part series about the 1665 plague ?

Thought that was really interesting.....Especially the bit about Eyam....A village in the Peak district. They basically locked themselves off from the outside world, once the plague reached them.....So they wouldn't spread the contagion any further.....Particularly selfless action.

Cheers - Phil
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« Reply #3554 on: 22 November 2020, 09:03:25 AM »
I've been to the Peak District. Do you think it's about time we told Eyam it's all clear?

Oh ... hang on ...

Let's leave it a while. 
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