What are you currently reading ?

[Raider4]

still looking for a CD of "The Silmarillion".

If only such a thing were available . . .

[Orcs]

Wow, Thats brilliant Raider, Thanks very much

[mmcv]

Still whittling away my pile of "lockdown" Ospreys while sitting at my dining table having meals or coffee. Brief periods of reading curtailed even further by my dining area having no thermal insulation to talk of so on cold days meals are eaten in the living room and coffee is consumed at my PC (such a bad idea!).

I've finished:
Early Aegean Warrior 5000–1450 BC
Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600–1100 BC
Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c.1400 BC–1000 BC
The Mycenaeans c.1650–1100 BC
Mycenaean Citadels c. 1350–1200 BC
Troy c. 1700–1250 BC
Soldier of the Pharaoh  Middle Kingdom Egypt 2055–1650 BC

Just started:
The Fortifications of Ancient Egypt 3000–1780 BC

Still to go
Gladiators 100 BC–AD 200

Any of these you would particularly recommend? I'm doing some bits around the Trojan war, so been eyeing a few of those recently.

[Ithoriel]

Any of these you would particularly recommend? I'm doing some bits around the Trojan war, so been eyeing a few of those recently.

There's a bit of, understandable, overlap between Early Aegean Warrior 5000–1450 BC, Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600–1100 BC and The Mycenaeans c.1650–1100 BC so if your focus is Troy I'd concentrate on the latter.

Troy c. 1700–1250 BC concentrates on the city rather than the warriors. An interesting read .... if you're interested in that but not a wargames army primer.

Mycenaean Citadels c. 1350–1200 BC - too much repetitious architecture and not enough history for my taste. Unless you're set on building a scale model of Mycenae, Pylos or Gla I'd avoid it.

Soldier of the Pharaoh made me wish they'd do an Old Kingdom companion volume!

[mmcv]

Thanks!

[kipt]

Finished another Robert Conroy historical fiction book, "Liberty: 1784".

This time the British have conquered the colonies, but there are dissident Americans further west.  So, the Crown decides they must be suppressed.   General Burgoyne, of Saratoga fame (or shame) is given the duty (along with Generals Benedict Arnold and Tarleton).

Unfortunately for Burgoyne, it ends with a similar Saratoga scenario.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

My step-great-greatetc relative!

[Westmarcher]

My step-great-greatetc relative!

I would place my bet on the latter, but which one? Arnold, Tarleton or Burgoyne?

Finished another Robert Conroy historical fiction book, "Liberty: 1784".

This time the British have conquered the colonies, but there are dissident Americans further west.  So, the Crown decides they must be suppressed.   General Burgoyne, of Saratoga fame (or shame) is given the duty (along with Generals Benedict Arnold and Tarleton).

Unfortunately for Burgoyne, it ends with a similar Saratoga scenario.

   

Well, that's good. We don't have to read it now.   

[kipt]

And another Robert Conroy book, but this one with J.R. Dunn as the author.  Conroy passed before this was finished.

The book is "The Day After Gettysburg: The South Strikes Back". In this book, the South did lose at Gettysburg, but Lee strikes back at the Potomac instead of crossing.  Eventually Grant comes East and the war ends early.

Quick readsw.

[kipt]

Finished "Civil War Fantastic" many short stories edited by Martin H. Greenberg.  Ghosts, warlocks, leprechauns (!)  and just plain strange.

Don't bother.

[Ithoriel]

Just finished Osprey's "The Fortifications of Ancient Egypt 3000–1780 BC" which I found much more digestible than their "Mycenaean Citadels c. 1350–1200 BC."

The latter goes through site by site detailing much the same info about each, the former picks out architectural or historical points and illustrates them with reference to relevant sites.

On to "Gladiators 100 BC–AD 200" now.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hoping to read the new Miniature Wargames, ive got an article about my love for 10mm and Pendraken in it, but my local Smiths is out of stock!!!

[Ithoriel]

Hoping to read the new Miniature Wargames, ive got an article about my love for 10mm and Pendraken in it, but my local Smiths is out of stock!!!

Clearly your article has copies flying off the shelves!

[paulr]

Hoping to read the new Miniature Wargames, ive got an article about my love for 10mm and Pendraken in it, but my local Smiths is out of stock!!!

Well done that man

[Techno]

Well done, Will !

Cheers - Phil