What are you currently reading ?

[Steve J]

The Winter War (The Russo-Finnish War 139-1940) by William R Trotter. Extremely well written and an enjoyable read, with plenty of good info for those wanting to wargame this more obscure conflict.

[Chris Pringle]

Finished "Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign In Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1" translated and edited by Nicholas Murray & Christopher Pringle.

It is too bad including a lot of maps makes books so expensive.  This book has maps but can only hit the major actions and strategic locations.  I did not read this with a comprehensive atlas in had, but it would have helped.  Clausewitz, using Jomini and Archduke Charles  narratives, as well as other histories, does a great job with operational history.  Some general OB's with round numbers.  I enjoy this type of history however.

Again the translation is very well done.  My only nit picks are in the footnotes where our editors say "see" such and such a book.  Most of these are not available without a lot of online searching and translating.  I have quite a few of the modern books referenced, but not the older ones.  Footnotes could just reference the book where the information is accessed.

Hopefully a translation of Archduke Charles may happen sometime in the future?

Coming up will be volume 2 (I read "Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign some time age and have purchased a copy for a birthday present fr a friend of mine).

Thanks very much, Kip. I've passed your comments on to Nick and to the Press.

The limit on maps was not cost but time. They were all created by Nick and each one takes many hours' work. I agree more maps would have been nice, but we had to be selective and limit it to 11.

A translation of Archduke Charles may well happen.

Chris

[Techno II]

Listening to....H2G2......The Hexagonal phase.

(I treated myself.......Which YOU paid for.)

First listen.....Hmm..yeah..O.K.  ....Not bad......Second listen....Loved it !

Cheers - And thanks for all the fish - Phil.

[kipt]

A friend gave me the 140th Anniversary special magazine Antietam Commemorative Issue, from the editors of America's Civil War, Civil War Times and MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History.

Several good articles by well know authors:
To Antietam Creek by D. Scott Hartig,
Lost and Found: Special Orders No. 191 by Stephen W. Sears,
Defeat or Victory? by Gary W. Gallagher,

as well as several others on South Mountain, the Cornfield, Bloody Lane and Burnside's Bridge.

Good illustrations also for a most interesting battle.

[Matt J]

The War of Wars: epic struggle between Britain and France - 1789-1815

Clips along at a nice pace and lots of snippets I'd not read about before like battle of Villiers-en-Cauchies: 400 cavalry, British and Austrian, surprise and rout 800 French cavalry before careering straight through (over!) a division of 12,000 infantry in 3 ranks and sixty guns! (which were quickly taken) before routing the French cavalry again which had reformed in the rear  What a ride! 

[Steve J]

What a ride indeed!

[kipt]

Finished Issue 65, July 2021 of the Gettysburg Magazine.

Articles in this issue are:
Ed Bearrs Remembered...And Now,
"It Was the Intention to Defend the Place":John Reynolds and the Decision to Fight at Gettysburg,
The Forgotten Assault at Gettysburg: Richard Anderson's Division on July 2,
The Myth that Mahone's Brigade Did Not Move on July 2, 1863,
and a couple more.

Good magazine.

[kipt]

Finished Vol. 85, No. 1 of "The Journal of Military History."

Articles in this issue are:
Should Roman Soldiers be Called "Professional" Prior to Augustus?
Bastion of Empire: The Italian terzo vecchi of the Army of Flanders (1597-1682).
"Neither an Officer nor an Enlisted Man": Contract Surgeons' Eligibility for the Medal of Honor.
The Battle of Shanghai (January-March 1932): A Study in the Space-time of War.
Harvey A DeWeerd and the Dawn of Academic Military History in the United States.
Debunking an Omaha Legend: The Use of :Armored Funnies" on D-Day.
Warriors Who Don't Fight: The Post-Cold war United States Army and Debates over Peacekeeping Operations.

And as always reviews of books; 102 pages.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Jack Four by Neal Asher.

Awesome hard sci-fi.

[Poggle]

Sicily '43 by James Holland. An excellent informative book on a subject I didn't know a great deal about.

[flamingpig0]

In the Name of Lykourgos: The Rise and Fall of the Spartan Revolutionary Movement (243–146 BC)
Miltiadis Michalopoulos- somewhat less heavy going than I expected.

and

Marada the She-Wolf - Graphic Novel

[kustenjaeger]

Just read the kindle version of Charging against Wellington (French cavalry in the Peninsular).

I've got James Holland's Sicily book in my reading pile!

Edward

[Steve J]

Yep, the Sicily book keeps getting shunted back at the moment, but looking forward to reading it in the next month or so.

[marie]

Marci Clarke Biography, specialist topic OJ ...of course...

[T13A]

Hi

Monte Cassino - Ten Armies in Hell by Peter Caddick-Adams. Good account of the campaign and various battles, although the author does jump around a bit chronologically . Sadly a low point of allied generalship of the Second World War.

Cheers Paul