What are you currently reading ?

[FierceKitty]

Oh God, i'm going to regret this, ok, what do you call an uneasily sleeping philosopher in a woodpile ?

LEAFpile.

[cameronian]

Yes.

[DaveH]

Read through the Men Who Would Be Kings and it has made me think about digging up my Zulu War pack that I bought a few years ago and getting them painted up to try it out.

[Raider4]

Listening to "Jail Busters" by Robert Lyman.

and

Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, audiobook

Curious about audio books - never listened to one - are you actively listening to the exclusion of everything else, or is it just on in the background, as it were?

Thanks, Martyn
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[fsn]

I find audio books great when I'm painting or driving or doing housework.

I also have a habit of starting to listen to something when in bed, then waking up several hours later with a huge gap in the plotline.

[Techno]

Curious about audio books - never listened to one - are you actively listening to the exclusion of everything else, or is it just on in the background, as it were?
Thanks, Martyn

I find them either great fun...and very entertaining....(depending on the story, obviously.).....Or I get so engrossed in pushing putty around, that I don't listen properly, and get completely lost, as far as the plot is concerned.

Cheers - Phil.

[hobuyuran]

I just finished "Balkan Wars" by Richard C. Hall. Now I am reading Jane Casey's "The Burning"
Balkan Wars were OK. The Burning is Burning!

[Last Hussar]

"Jane Eyre" by Currer Bell

[Leman]

Still rate Ruth Wilson as my favourite incarnation of Jane Eyre.

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

Volume IV of the War in the Air - official history mainly covering from June 1917 to March 1918.

Regards

Edward

[kipt]

Finished "Grant and Lee" by J.F.C. Fuller.

He likes Grant but thinks Lee was not a good general or General and Chief.  Did not stand up to Davis.  Bad on logistics and the overall state of the Confederacy.

[Leman]

I think the likes of Grant and Sherman operated in a way much more akin to the generals of Fuller's day. Lee was still in the age of honour. In some ways a pity war is no longer conducted in such a way.

[Dangerdaz]

Currently reading 'The reality of war' memoir of the Franco Prussian war.
It's by Leone Party, translated by Douglas Former.
It's really good & gives a good insight from a junior officers perspective.

[Leman]

Looks like auto carrot has buggered up Leonce Patry and Douglas Fermer.

[cameronian]

 

[kipt]

Finished "The McCully Report: The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05", edited by Richard von Doenhoff.

Lieutenant Commander Newton McCully was the representative of the USN sent as an observer.  He went to the Russians and traveled on the Siberian RR to the scene of the conflict.  He spent time in Port Arthur and Vladivostock but was gone by Tushima.

He describes the damage to numerous Russian ships in their various sorties from Port Arthur before they were trapped there, and then the damage from artillery fire.  He has diagrams showing the hits and by what type of shell.  I was surprised by the number of engagements and how much damage was caused by mines, on both sides.

The last part is more of a travelog as he went from Russia to China; trains, horses and camels.

Overall, very interesting.

[kipt]

Also finished "Epic Retreats; From 1776 to the Evacuation of Saigon" by Stephen Tanner.

The chapters are:
Washington in New York
Napoleon in Russia
The Nez Perce in Montana
The Allies at Dunkirk
First Panzer Army in the Caucasus
Eighth Army in Korea
The Fall of South Vietnam

All well written and interesting.  Plenty of detail and descriptions of the combat and retreats.

Good book.

[Leman]

France 1940 -  Osprey in the rather nice hardback Praeger edition. I like to read this kind of stuff, but not interested in playing it.

[Terry37]

Being a Weird World War fan, I am in the second book of John Birmingham's very well written Axis of Time trilogy on time travel/alternate WWII history. I find his work very deep and thoughtful, and obviously good food for thought for a mix of modern and WWII era stuff. The three books are

Weapons of Choice, Designated Targets and Final Impact.

If you are interested in Weird WWI, then Joseph Nassise's The Great Undead War is also enjoyable and good for gaming ideas.

Terry

[Duckman]

Not militarily orientated at all but I found out how to download all of the E E Doc Smith's Lensman series to my Kindle. Had them all in the '70's and fancied reading them again. They are next after I finish the current pot-boiler of a D&D novel trilogy.

MickS

OOH I must take a look