What are you currently reading ?

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

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Ace of Spades

Re-reading 'Waterloo, the great battle reappraised', always a good one if you don't know what to pick from the heap and need to get back into that 'Napoleonic feeling' for some paintjob that wants to get done...

Cheers,
Rob
2014 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Fenton

Just finished reading Resistance by Owen Sheers

http://www.owensheers.co.uk/fiction.htm

They have just made a film of it to

If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

fsn

Avoid the film. It's very, very, very boring.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

DaveL

Hi.  Just bought, and begun reading,  "The Wargames compendium" by Henry Hyde.  Expensive (but got a good deal at Derby) but a good, light read and trip down memory lane
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Best Wishes   DaveL

haupt

The Civil War in color, It's full of well known photos that have been brought to life. There are a few errors, like the colour of NCO's chevrons and gun carriages, but pretty much a revelation IMHO.

Ithoriel

German Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions 1939-1945 by Jorge Rosado and Chris Bishop.

Inspiration for colour schemes for my Pendraken Panzers.

Soviet Tank Units 1939-1945 by David Porter waiting in the wings for when I'm painting the other side.

Panzergrenadier volume ordered and hopefully en route.

Potted histories and pretty pictures!
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Neal Asher Jupiter War
Getting good!  8)
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

Techno

Listened to....
Crisis Four by Andy McNab.....
Reading....Still referring to 'Storm from the East' for the Mongols.....I wonder when the library are going to get that back ?  :D (Borrowed it over for over two months now...lucky no-one else seems to want to read it...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D)
Cheers - Phil

fsn

I'm reading Barbarossa: The First 24 Hours - A Russian View.

Getting my wargaming juices flowing for T-35s.

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Fenton

Quote from: Techno on 11 October 2013, 10:34:31 AM
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Reading....Still referring to 'Storm from the East'

That will be about those bastards from Newport. wouldn't it?
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

Techno

Newport 'Mons' or Newport 'Pembs' ?
I assume you're referring to the one I live closest to F. :P ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.

Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Sorry - those cant be places in Wales - I can read and pronounce them.

IanS
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead
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fsn

Newport, Gwent (Monmouth) is known to the locals as "Casnewydd". My schoolboy Welsh tells me that "newydd" measn "new", but I don't know what "Cas" means.  :-\

Newport Pembs, goes under the alter ego of "Trefdraeth", which obviously means "Trevor can't hear properly".

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Techno

Oh all right.....

Thought it'd be easier to say Newport... :P
In that case......Trefdraeth as fsn says  ;).....
Cheers - Phil

NTM

They're both a long way West of anywhere civilised but it's the one on the IOW you really need to worry about  ;)