What are you currently reading ?

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

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Leman

Thanks Raider - I am a retired history teacher.  >:( Apology accepted.
The artist formerly known as Dour Puritan!

mmcv

Just finished Dan Jones The Templars for non fiction, where I learned my Templars had the wrong flag, and on Poseidon's Spear by Christian Cameron for fiction. Historical adventure series during the Greek and Persian wars. In this one set just after Marathon, the hero takes up merchant adventuring and piracy running afoul of the Carthaginians in the process. Good yarn in similar vein to Cornwell and Iggulden and the like.

kipt

Finished "Tom Brown's School Days" by Thomas Hughes.  This one was printed in the US but there isn't a date of printing.  This is where George MacDonald Fraser got Flashman, bully and coward.  Flashman is in an upper level to Tom but finally Tom calls him out for the bully and coward he is.  Flashman is not much in the book however, but interesting to see where he came from.

Interesting life of Tom Brown in his public school.  Much slang and nomenclature that as a Yank I didn't understand, but a good read.

Raider4

Quote from: Leman on 12 April 2019, 07:54:15 PM
Thanks Raider - I am a retired history teacher.

Lol! Either wildly appropriate or wildly inappropriate then  ;D

Quote from: Leman on 12 April 2019, 07:54:15 PM
Apology accepted.

I am more than happy to apologise. No offence was intended, just a lame attempt at humour on my part regarding the name of the book. Sorry.

Steve J

BKCIV has landed, so having a brief flick through.

Steve J

Just finished my read through of BKCIV and I must say I'm very impressed. A few queries here and there, but nothing major. As with BKCII, I will tweak things to suit my style of gaming, but then that's the strength of these rules IMHO. Looking forward to giving these a run out soon.

KTravlos

 I read the Osprey Book "Latin American Wars 1900-1941". Very good survey of some of the lesser known conflicts of the interwar period. Lots of interesting fodder for small scale war-gaming.

steve_holmes_11

Not reading, but since this is the most bookish thread I know of.
Spotted today on Amazon (Looks like a working title).

Bernard Cornwell Untitled Book 2 Hardcover – 3 Oct 2019

The Last Kingdom series goes from strength to strength with Uhtred becoming ever more interesting – in so many ways a modern hero, facing a new world, with changing allegiances, but still held by traditional loyalties.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bernard-Cornwell-Untitled-Book-2/dp/0008183899/ref=pd_lutyp_bmx_6_3/258-0071880-0664038?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0008183899&pd_rd_r=b0941869-a508-49f8-95f0-0dc027c58c61&pd_rd_w=NCxJ0&pd_rd_wg=GhubP&pf_rd_p=344babc4-e692-46e9-93f4-d7902b957540&pf_rd_r=13S1493M1YHGBQ9PV4NE&psc=1&refRID=13S1493M1YHGBQ9PV4NE

kipt

Finished "Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection" which is as it says.  Pictures of items in the collection as well as pictures, with a narrative that ties it all together.

Pretty coffee table book.

sunjester

"Armed with Stings" by A C Hampshire about the Insect class gunboats. I've only reached the end of the First World war but I'm hoping to get some scenario ideas for Cruel Seas.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

My Dad's rice paper edition of Lord of The Rings, for Nazgul mostly..
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

Ben Waterhouse

John Gills 1809 trilogy, awaiting my Wurttembergers...
Arma Pacis Fulcra

steve_holmes_11

The Analects of Confucius (by Confucius)    - Love that title.

Translated by James Legge.


kipt

Finished Vol 83, No. 2 of "The Journal of Military History" 

Some of the articles are:
Attila's Appetite: The Logistics of Attila the Hun's Invasion of Italy in 452,
"This French artillery is very good and very effective." Hypotheses on the Diffusion of a New Military Technology in Renaissance Italy.
Older German Officers and National Socialist Activism: Evidence from the Volksturm.
Friction in Action: Revisiting the U.S. Army Air Forces' August 1943 Raid on Ploesti.


And many book reviews as always.  Published 4 times a year and I always find new books I want to buy.

FierceKitty

Duffy's The Army of Frederick the Great - as ever, reliably researched and well written; but, dear Heavens, the publishers should be forced to run the gauntlet twenty-four times for going to press with such shoddy editing! Every three pages or so one needs to stop and puzzle out what the original sentence was, before careless typing mucked it up. Angry.
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