What are you currently reading ?

[FierceKitty]

re: Zulu

Michael Caine had a brief spell of being remarkably good-looking, didn't he?

[shireman]

James Kennaway's "Tunes of Glory" (the novel of the Alec Guinness/John Mills film). Not a book to read while matching the characters dram for dram but a fine piece of writing.

[Bloodaxe]

re: Zulu

Michael Caine had a brief spell of being remarkably good-looking, didn't he?

I think the last time I saw him was in Batman as Alfred.

[FierceKitty]

That's a great deal later.

[kipt]

Finished "Naval Weapons of World War One" by Norman Friedman.  Super detailed and covers every major gun, torpedo, mines and ASW of the warring parties, as well as some neutrals.

[Maenoferren]

Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum by Colonel Mike Snook.. I got it on an inter library loan and have 8 days to read it...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Read - FASTER 

IanS

[Last Hussar]

"The Woman who died a lot"

[Techno]

Just listened to...
'King Solomon's Mines'.

Cheers - Phil.

[Hertsblue]

"The Woman who died a lot"

Jasper Fforde - absolutely brilliant. Fantasy in a literary world with a wicked twist.

[Rob]

The End of Empire, Napoleons 1814 Campaign ,,,,, George Nafziger

[Hertsblue]

Half-way through Marc Morris's The Norman Conquest which debunks a lot of the conventional wisdom about the coming of the Normans. For example, it's almost certain that Edward the Confessor (nothing like as pious as his nickname would suggest) did promise William the throne of England and formally took him as his heir.

See also this author's A Great and Terrible King about Edward I. Both excellent.

[kipt]

Finished Jack Campbell's "The Lost Fleet, Beyond the Frontier: STEADFAST".  Military Sci-Fi and Space Opera.  This is the 10th in the Lost Fleet series.  It's OK, but not as good as Honor Harrington.

[kipt]

Finished Jack Campbell's "The Lost Fleet, Beyond the Frontier: LEVIATHAN". This is book 11 in the series. A fast read.

[kipt]

Finished "Principles and Methods of Conducting Wide Envelopments, as Illustrated by Operations of the Franco-Prussian War".  This is a small booklet, 22 pages including the bibliography and is a reprint by the U.S. Government in the BiblioGov Project (although I bought it through Abe Books).

It was a research project by a Captain Shely for his Command and General Staff School requirement. Done in 1934.