What are you currently reading ?

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

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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!
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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)

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Fenton

Quote from: Techno on 11 October 2013, 09:34:31 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.

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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  ;)

Fenton

what about the one in Belgium with the slightly dodgy spelling
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!

wurrukatte

Not forgetting Newport Essex!!

or perhaps its best we do.

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Danyo

Alistair Hornes' The Price of Glory - Verdun 1916.
Fantastic read, really was horrific battle, with a good amount of maps to drool over for good measures haha

Zippee

Currently:
Homeworld (E Currie) - Space Opera but fun
Bear Island ( A Maclean) - it was on TV last week and not how I remembered it so I wanted to check, damn the evils of instant download kindle books (which also saw me purchase HMS Ullsses, Ice Station Zebra, When Eight Bells Toll and Where Eagles Dare!)

Storm and Conquest - The Battle for the Indian Ocean 1808-10 (S Taylor)

just finished
Incomparable: Napoleon's 9th Light Infantry Regiment (TE Crowdy)
The Korean War (M Hastings)
The Eagle Has Landed (J Higgins) - more kindle inspired nostalgia!

Hertsblue

Just finished the new Conn Iggulden - Emperor - the Blood of Gods.

Julius Caesar has been assassinated in the Senate but his adopted son, Octavian, has vowed revenge. All blood and guts stuff.
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GordonY

Dropzone Commander rulebook, suprisingly nice ruleset, the eye-candy in it is awesome.

marie

Hi I`m reading The White Queen,pity the tv series got stopped....

Steve J

City of Djinns by William Dalyrymple. Excellent so far and I like his style.

cameronian

Have you read his From the Holy Mountain ? Very good.
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haupt

Mars gets new chariots.   The iron horse in combat 1861-65 by Alan Koenig.