What are you currently reading ?

[skywalker]

Ardennes 1944 Hitlers Last Gamble by Antony Beevor

[Leman]

Sharpe's Triumph now.

[JaymisHawk]

The War of The Flowers by Tad Williams 

[toxicpixie]

Currently working my way back through Ian M Banks' sci fi collection. It's very good! Although Excession still wasn't quite so hot as the others (to me). Something just doesn't quite bite with it.

[Bodvoc]

Battle for Britain: Wargame the English Civil War by Peter Dennis and Andy Callan.

I got this cheap from Amazon out of curiosity and I rather like it. The book is a well set out collection of paper soldiers to make and then play a wargame with. There are actually 2 sets of rules in the book, a decent looking set for the experienced gamer and a simplified version for the beginner. There is a little bit of useful information interspersed with the instructions on making the paper soldier s butit is not the aim of this book to give a historical account of the ECW.
To actually make the paper soldiers you are supposed to seperate all the pages, colour copy them and cut and assemble the copies. You also get paper buildings and trees to make, thus a whole wargame in a book.
As I am currently painting 15mm ECW (one of 3 ongoing projects) I doubt I would ever make the paper soldiers but the rules look good enough to try.
I shall keep this book as a book to flick through and enjoy the illustration which are lovely with a charm all of their own. I may adapt the buildings into 15mm at some point.
Overall, I like this book and may get some of the others in the series based on Hastings and the Wars of the Roses.

[FierceKitty]

Empire of the Moghul. Rather shabby writing, to tell the truth.

[Techno]

Listening to "Night Raid" by Taylor Downing.

Thoroughly enjoying it....and learning quite a lot !

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Boxed that off, on to Sharpe's Fortress. I am quite pleased I had never read many Sharpe books before as this enables me to see his character develop.

[AndyT]

"Orcs"(First Blood, omnibus edition) by Stan Nicholls.

Quite a good read. Plenty of battle action where orc warbands ride horses rather than the "traditional" wolves and are similar in some ways to real life Hun or Mongolian horsemen. Humans are the bad guys and many other traditional fantasy races are included.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Now try Grunts!

[DaveH]

Boxed that off, on to Sharpe's Fortress. I am quite pleased I had never read many Sharpe books before as this enables me to see his character develop.

You are addicted now!

[cameronian]

Been reading an old copy of 'A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich', means nothing to my students, 'USSR ??'
O tempora ...

[kipt]

Finished "The Coast Artillery War Game (1916): Early Naval Wargaming" by Major William Chamberlaine.

This is part of the History of Wargaming Project (www.wargaming.co),

The game was used to train coast artillery officers of the USA.  Seems it was used in conjunction with the Fred Jane War Game and ship plans from Jane's Fighting Ships.

[FierceKitty]

Been reading an old copy of 'A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich', means nothing to my students, 'USSR ??'
O tempora ...

Some comfort in the fact that it is being forgotten, I suppose. Some.

[cameronian]

'Fools Frauds and Firebrands' Roger Scruton, seriously good.