What are you currently reading ?

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Hertsblue

Quote from: Bodvoc on 28 January 2015, 09:35:49 PM
I have the kindle app on my tablet and like to buy, read and store lots of books and rules on there (as my other half can't trace them so easily). Also, when on holiday I can take a whole library with me. However for a really important book or set of rules an actual book is always best.

Agree entirely. Great for blotting out the world when on holiday, but for serious reading give me a hard-back every time. Have you ever tried referring back to a fronticepiece map from the middle of an e-book? Don't bother!
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Quote from: mad lemmey on 28 January 2015, 08:41:55 PM
I would also go for Howard's Franco-Prussian War and Ascoli's 'A Day of Battle'.

Thanks for that, I'll look out for them.
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Quote from: Hertsblue on 29 January 2015, 09:05:08 AM
Agree entirely. Great for blotting out the world when on holiday, but for serious reading give me a hard-back every time. Have you ever tried referring back to a fronticepiece map from the middle of an e-book? Don't bother!
On a Kindle Fire there is a sidebar which can be revealed which enables you to go to different parts of the book, such as maps. Takes no longer than flipping back and forth in a book. I also discovered the tap twice feature which enlarges pictures and maps. Great for Ospreys.
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Quote from: Hertsblue on 29 January 2015, 09:05:08 AM
Agree entirely. Great for blotting out the world when on holiday, but for serious reading give me a hard-back every time. Have you ever tried referring back to a fronticepiece map from the middle of an e-book? Don't bother!

Agree totally with this.  Although, as Leman says you can be clever with tabs, it just isn't the same as reading and referring (ie flicking between the two pages).  I tried to read an account of the Waterloo; so frustrating!  >:(
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The Somme 1870 -71 by Quintin Barry. So far it's proving to be a good read, maybe because it deals with a very specific campaign. Couple of oddities though. In one place the same illustration is shown twice, one page after the other. Also all the colour photos taken on the battlefields appear throughout the book again in black and white. Nevertheless a valuable in depth look at an important part of the FPW, and inspiration for using those fusiliers marins.
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Currently ploughing our way through all the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough on audio book
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Leman

Cameronian - someone suggested it was a bit long, and I had gone off it myself, not having done any ECW for a good few years now. The time was right.
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Mongols, Huns & Vikings - Hugh Kennedy - Cassell's History of Warfare
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Quote from: Fenton on 30 January 2015, 12:46:02 PM
Currently ploughing our way through all the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough on audio book

Great set of books. It needs to be turned into a TV mini-series!
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"Beau Sabreur", the second is the series is dedicated 'to "Nobby," true comrade, to whom this book owes much'.


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Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal are all essentially the same book written from three different viewpoints.
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Leman

Beau Diddley, however, is about a musician. Beau Locks is a general refutation of the French method of desert warfare. Beau Mont is a travel guide extolling the beauty of the Swiss countryside.
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While Beau Ring is a critque of Wagner's Ring Cycle :)
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