What are you currently reading ?

[paulr]

It was certainly not my intention to imply that, just shows I should avoid using phrases I never properly understood!  . Bruce is "the business". Oops, there I go again! 

Mollinary

Hence my confusion the two parts of your comment didn't seem to go together 

[Steve J]

Yep, Bruce is a real gent and his books are wonderful. Having just picked up some 2/3mm buildings from Brigade models today, I may be inspired to re-visit my 2mm armies for this (and other) periods.

[barbarian]

Anabase - Sénophonte

[cameronian]

It was certainly not my intention to imply that, just shows I should avoid using phrases I never properly understood!  . Bruce is "the business". Oops, there I go again! 

Mollinary

Cordwood?

[mollinary]

Cordwood?

Funny you should say that, but that is a term I always understood completely! 

Mollinary

[Hertsblue]

Just started Ian Morris's Why the West Rules - For Now, in which he attempts to plot the patterns of history and predict future developments. It's a sort of survey of Life, the Universe and Everything. In which case I guess we could all tell him the answer.... 

[Leman]

When you've finished you might want to start learning Mandarin, just in case.

[Hertsblue]

I was thinking more along the lines of 47. 

[kipt]

Finished "The Battle of Barrosa 1811: Forgotten Battle of the Peninsular War" by  John Grehan & Martin Mace.

Good description of the battle and the campaign for Cadiz.  Makes as a point that Joseph and Soult would probably have won the whole Peninsular War if they had taken Cadiz.

[FierceKitty]

Tales from Moominvalley. Cor, she knew how to choose the right details for a story!

[Leman]

Have now made it to volume 3 of Ken Follet's Century Trilogy - Kicks off in Berlin in 1961. Volume 2 had my heart pounding in many sections as people in Germany and Russia tried to cope with the Gestapo and NKVD, while the Americans were getting on with nuclear research. A real page turner.

[cameronian]

Have now made it to volume 3 of Ken Follet's Century Trilogy - Kicks off in Berlin in 1961. Volume 2 had my heart pounding in many sections as people in Germany and Russia tried to cope with the Gestapo and NKVD, while the Americans were getting on with nuclear research. A real page turner.

Have you ever read any of the Bernie Gunther novels? A Berlin detective before, during and after the 3rd Reich; touch of the Philip Marlowes but rattling good reads.

[Leman]

Thanks for the info.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The new Elric and the Ruby Throne graphic novel.
Awesome.
Sickening, thought provoking, evil as you expect Melinobeans to be.  Just awesome. 

[kipt]

Just finished "The War in the Crimea" by General Sir Edward Hamley.  It was good but I was hoping it would have been more like his "Operations of War".  However, the battles and siege descriptions are good.  No OB's but they are obtainable elsewhere I presume.  Not a war I game however.