What are you currently reading ?

Started by goat major, 03 November 2012, 06:40:05 PM

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toxicpixie

"Hell in a very small place" is very good indeed!

Currently on Charles Strosses fifth Laundry book. For those who haven't read them it's an ISO9000 compliant Cthulu Bond mash up as done by the British civil service via slash-dot.
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Leman

I might have read that but I don't speak Chinese.
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toxicpixie

 ;D

Think James Bond with Elder Gods as seen through a geeky sys-admin working within the (often literal) arcane bureaucracy of the civil service...

Bill Gates with tentacles and a license to kill.

Reading order with a couple of links to some of the short stories -

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/01/laundry-reading-order.html

I also recommend http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm - not the same series, but a one off. Very grim.
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cameronian

The new Bernie Gunther novel by Philip Kerr.
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Malbork

The Last Panther by Wolfgang Faust on Kindle.

Quite short first-hand account of the German breakout at Halbe in 1945.  It reads a little bit like a novel but appears to his true experience of the drive to the West;  The translation is a tad annoying - the T34 panzer appeared from the trees. Our King Tiger panzer engaged the enemy, etc.  Don't see the need for the repition of panzer at every opportunity but apart from that it's fine;  Seems to a be a series in Kindle format based on interviews conducted by German journalists in the early 60s.

Sandinista

Just started "The Days of King Monmouth" by Ralph Mitchard a day by day account of the rebellion. Seems good so for.

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freddy326

started Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring a couple of days ago after watching the Amazon series: Turn

now trying to decide whether to buy and paint some 10mm AWI !

Steve J

Osprey's Essential History of the Seven Years War. I enjoyed their one on the Russian Civil War, so looking to see how this compares.

paulr

Quote from: freddy326 on 23 June 2015, 11:03:53 AM
started Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring a couple of days ago after watching the Amazon series: Turn

now trying to decide whether to buy and paint some 10mm AWI !


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KTravlos

Not so much what I am currently reading but some reviews of what I read these last months

http://phdleadhead.blogspot.com.tr/2015/06/books-reviews-19th-century-warfare.html


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kipt

Finished volume 79, no. 2 of "The Journal of Military History". It is a quarterly publication and some of the articles are "The other Clausewitz: Findings from the Newly Discovered Correspondence between Marie and Carl Von Clausewitz", "Dirty Work?  The Use of Nazi Informants by U.S. Army Intelligence in Postwar Europe", and "This 'Horrible Example'": An Extraordinary Case of Absnt Without Leave during the Vietnam War".

Also has many book reviews which always results on putting more titles on my wants list.

cameronian

Quote from: wurrukatte on 25 June 2015, 07:26:17 PM
Wavro's Austro Prussian war.

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cameronian

Have you read Prof Craig's Koniggratz? A better place to start than Wawro who ruins what could be a good book with careless errors and ill informed prejudice.
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