What are you currently reading ?

[Techno]

Ta Rob !
Cheers - Phil.

[Leon]

The whole tension of the scene evaporated and these giant menances were reduced to multi-legged Telly Tubbies.

[goat major]

The whole tension of the scene evaporated and these giant menances were reduced to multi-legged Telly Tubbies.

well i for one find the thought of multi-legged Telly Tubbies quite tense indeed

[Techno]

I really do worry about you lot sometimes.
Cheers - Phil 

[Techno]

Borrowed "How wars begin" by A.J.P. Taylor and started on that......
Finding that really quite useful for a quick understanding of European history from the Napoleonic Wars and onwards.
(I can go on to my copies of "Decisive battles of the Western World" with a bit more confidence after this.)

But boy,.....Is it showing me how really, really ignorant I am regarding history.. ....At least it's correcting lot of  preconceptions.
Cheers - Phil.

[mart678]

Hi Techno

Will give you an e-mail update in a day or two, I am currently reading ROAD OF BONES by FERGAL KEANE a very good book on Kohima and the build up and actions before it

Martin

[NTM]

Subscribing to Free Kindle Books is keeping me busy

Currently rerading; Elite Panzer Strike Force: Panzer Lehr in WWII

Viking Panzers, Panzer Tactics, couple of volumes on US 29th Infantry, several ACW books etc in the pipeline. Also have stuff like the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on there and read one story every so often.

Also getting through some printed works just finished Op Bluecoat Over the Battlefield, 6th Guards Tank Brigade by Patrick Forbes arrived yesterday couple of chapters in already. About half way through Cornwell's Death of Kings too

[Steve J]

Tank Men by Robert Kershaw. Excellent book so far and much better than his one on the development of airborne forces.

[fsn]

Also getting through some printed works just finished Op Bluecoat Over the Battlefield, 6th Guards Tank Brigade by Patrick Forbes arrived yesterday couple of chapters in already.

Are those "Over The Battle" books any good? Tempted but haven't tried one yet.

[Techno]

Hi Techno
Will give you an e-mail update in a day or two

Look forward to that Mart.
Cheers - Phil

[NTM]

Are those "Over The Battle" books any good? Tempted but haven't tried one yet.

Excellent IMHO Have read Epsom & Bluecoat recently (which I got for £10 each in a Pen & Sword sale). Will be familiar to you if you have read any of the Battleground Europe volumes as they are much expanded versions of those.

[DaveL]

Hi.

Half way through the Simon Scarrow book  "Sword and Scimitar".  Not really my period, but they were selling the hardback in "The Works" for only £2.69" so I boughtbit.  Really glad I did because it@s really good.

Also just finished the second book in the Vespasian series by Robert Fabbri and the new Con Iggulden book about the aftermath of Caesar's assasination.  both brilliant books

Happy reading    DaveL

[UZero]

Hello,
Two thirds of the way through Fighter Pilot - biography of Robin Olds.
Looking forward to the bit on operation bolo.

All the best

Martin

[Hertsblue]

Hi.

Half way through the Simon Scarrow book  "Sword and Scimitar".  Not really my period, but they were selling the hardback in "The Works" for only £2.69" so I boughtbit.  Really glad I did because it@s really good.

Also just finished the second book in the Vespasian series by Robert Fabbri and the new Con Iggulden book about the aftermath of Caesar's assasination.  both brilliant books

Happy reading    DaveL

Scarrow's not a patch on Iggulden. The latter's "Emperor" series is the benchmark for all "history as thriller" genre books.

[ryman1]

Scarrow's not a patch on Iggulden. The latter's "Emperor" series is the benchmark for all "history as thriller" genre books.

Having read all of Simon Scarrow's books I have to say I'm a big fan but this is not the first time I've heard Iggulden promoted so I think it's time I went and got one to read.

On the Scarrow subject, has anyone read his brother Alex Scarrow's work? He has written a post apocalyptic series set in London and the north-east oil platforms which were a brilliant read (Afterlight), I highly recommend them to anyone playing or painting post-apoc as they're full of inspiring ideas.

Cheers

Ry

[Friedland]

I get through a fair few books every month. Recent ones have been:

"Swords Around a Throne - Napoleon's Grand Armee" Robert R Elting.
"Fatal Avenue - A Travellers History of the Battlefields of Northern France 1346-1945" Richard Holmes.
"The Franco Prussian War" Michael Howard.

Also managed to grab a copy of David Chandler's "Campaigns of Napoleon" for £15 from a local market stall (1968 edition). Nice as I've been after it for ages and was reluctant to pay the usual 40 quid price tag.

[Leman]

The Confederacy's Last Hurrah. Hood isn't coming over this terribly well.

[sixsideddice]

Book 5... Game of Thrones

[fsn]

I've just started "the Last Knight" by Norman F Cantor.

I have a number of prejudices when I read. Firstly, I never read SF written by women. Too much touchy-feely and not enough coruscating lasers. Secondly, I never read modern biographies, thirdly I never read histories written for Americans.

Americans talking about anything before 1600 are like fish discussing athlete's foot. They have no real frame of reference and their attempts to bring it to the understanding of the audience grate. Cantor compares cathedral canons to Ivy League professors, and suggests John of Gaunt spent millions of dollars. By the end of chapter 1 I was ready to toss the book out of the window. I may get into chapter 2.

To support my contention of American historians, one has only to watch some of the dross on the History Channel. It basically goes "Egypt/China invented it, Romans probably had something to do with it,  funny people in armour, then nothing until in 1823 Josiah P Hogswill of Clustermuck, Pennsylvania added a tiny, tiny bit and then the whole world was saved. Since then, America has been the best at everything and the rest of the world doesn't count." (I paraphrase.)

Please don't think I'm dissing America. I'm dissing parochial American historians, and the cultural imperialism of Hollywood, and this book which is unsympathetic to the period and plonks C21 morality onto the C14.

Yes. I know Cantor was Canadian.

   

[General Greenman]

Just attempting to listen to some of the pre WW1 invasion literature from Gutenburg plus "Damm the torpedoes"  by BRIAN BURREL.
This is am interesting book that looks at some of the myths about combat and how it is re-corded