What are you currently reading ?

[Leman]

Now I am having to read FOGR (refer back to last ruleset thread).

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

DP:
Welcome to the dark side! It's a good rule set that feels 'right'!

[Leman]

Cheers Lemmy. Have opted for a couple of supplements as well, Trade and Treachery (or is it the other way round) for the Italian Wars, and Eternal Empire for the Ottomans.

[Westmarcher]

Reading The Making of the British Army by Allan Mallinson. Quite unsettling early on when, discussing the English Civil War, he refers to the Swedish Brigade system using 3 ranks and the Dutch Brigade system using 4 ranks - my understanding has always been that it should be 6 ranks and 8 ranks respectively. If this fact is incorrect, how much of the remainder is correct? Anyway, I'll see how it goes and if it is disappointing, hopefully the local library will soon come to the rescue with my first FPW book reservation (The Franco-Prussian War by Michael Howard).

[Steve J]

The Howard book is very, very good.

[Westmarcher]

Well, the county library service has dug deep into the "reserve" stock and come up with the goods. I'm about to start reading The Franco-Prussian War by Michael Howard (as recommended by SteveJ, Cameronian, Leman and Mad Lemmey). Just got to see the last episode of Vikings (Series 3) first! Can't wait for both!

P.S. The book is 54 years old!

[Ace of Spades]

Just started 'The guns of August' by Barbara Tuchman (that one is 52 years old already I believe...? ...I mean the book!).
A very good read up till now I must say!

Cheers,
Rob

[Chad]

Just started Bayonets of the Republic by John Lynn. Detailed account of the development of the Army of the North in the French Revolution.

[Tawa]

Currently reading: Commando to Captain-Generall: The Life of Brigadier Peter Young. 

[Steve J]

Osprey book on the development of the Italian Light Tanks. Very good so far and learnt a lot of useful stuff to take forward into games.

[Roy]

The tribe that washed its spears - the zulus at war
Adrian Greaves and Xolani Mkhize

[Techno]

'Close than you think' by Karen Rose.

20 CDs !

That'll keep me entertained for a few days.

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

The Wargamer's Guide to Dark Age Britain by Martin Hackett. Genning up on the Picts I bought from Pendraken at Warfare.

[fsn]

Just received "Wellington's Engineers: Military Engineering in the Peninsular War 1808-1814" by Mark S. Thompson.

Looking forward to it!

[mollinary]

Dictator by Robert Harris. After a slow start I am beginning to get into it .... pity I know how it ends! 

Mollinary