What are you currently reading ?

[Leman]

I read that book. Interesting, but as you say, a bit light on the Bourbons.

Smallish battles and without the big names this Peninsula campaign is quite game-able. 

If it's light on the Bourbons then let's hope it's a little more generous with the Custard Creams! Tee-hee.

[cameronian]

Many times

[KTravlos]

I finished Kissinger's "A World Restored". This is Kissinger before he got actively into politics and committed crimes. Its an interesting read, not so much as a story of Vienna systems creation and early days, but more on the musings on conservatism. A good read for all grappling with the question "What does conservatism mean in the 21st century".

Next up in work read David Kings, Vienna 1814

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Howard Tayler: Schlock Mercanary/Force Multiplication

Excellent print of my favourite webcomic.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

My class year book!

[Fenton]

My class year book!

Why is your diary so good?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 
Nowt in it fer 6 week, so bostin!

[KTravlos]

I finished David King's "Vienna 1814". It was a charming book. He is a good writer. It is the kind of gossipy history I enjoy a lot. While not a perfect history of the political and military events , it was a great study of the Congress as a social event, and of the personalities. Full of lots of cool anecdotes, it brings to life a lot of the events I read in more straight political-diplomatic history treatments. Despite being a breezy read it has a massive and excellent amount of notes, and a great, great annotated bibliography.

He writes the way I would like to write, though I can never do that  due to conventions of the field.

Anyway, if you are looking for a charming summer read I recommend it fully.
Next up, another book on the congress. "Fun" reading trying to finish Kondylis "Global Policy after the Cold War" in Greek, and then probably Reynolds "Shattering Empires"

[Leman]

Lemmy, you need to get milking if your dairy is currently empty.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Tenby soon, reading Mortiem et Gloria rules!

[Leman]

Those rules are very expensive. Tenby eh; many happy memories of Kiln Park.

[Techno]

Tenby soon, reading Mortiem et Gloria rules!

Hope you get your day pass, Will. 

Cheers - Phil

[kipt]

Finished Vol. 80, No. 2 of "The Journal of Military History". 

A couple of the article's are:
"Technology and Tradition: Mine Warfare and the Royal Navy's Strategy of Coastal Assault"
and "Fighting under a Different Flag: Multinational Naval Cooperation and Submarine Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940-1944".

[Ithoriel]

I'm concurrently reading -

"The Sumerians: A History From Beginning To End" by Henry Freeman on my PC Kindle during long sea voyages in Naval Action

Mark Urban's "Tank War" in the living room during TV ad breaks

"Sword of Destiny" by Adrzej Sapkowski, part of the Witcher series of fantasy novels, in the dining area while waiting for things to cook

Can't decide if that's multitasking or lack of focus!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Both

IanS