I've read 3 or 4 Discworld novels and have enjoyed them all.

Like Nik I normally have a number of books on the go at once but at the moment only one Battlground Europe's Operation Bluecoat.

Have just finished Teste's Bitter Victory with 2 other books on Sicily in the to read pile.

May well start on Cornwell's latest in the Alfred series.

Think I'll leave it at that for the moment as it covers all the periods/theatres I'm painting up at the moment and I can't be starting another project just yet if inspired by a book like I normally am.

Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton, the sequel of Pandora's Star. Good reads both of them even if the end of Pandora's Star was a bit, well, "meh".

Quote from: goat major on 24 February 2011, 10:30:18 AM
but then i'm a Gaiman fanboy

Now there's a phrase you don't hear spoken out loud very often 

Desert War by Alan Moorehead & Gunman's Rhapsody by Robert B. Parker.

Quote from: nikharwood on 25 February 2011, 01:08:02 AM
Now there's a phrase you don't hear spoken out loud very often 

hetero is soooo last millenium Nick. Just wait till you see my pink Space Marines.

  Nice mate, nice...

Like this:


...rather than this:

Florence likes the second style a lot better!  As a matter of fact that's just about how she paints anything I let her get her hands on: black orc, pirate, Roman, wyvern, they're all pink.  I have to inquire whether the flowers are decals 

I fear i' m acting like a thread necromancer now, but i 'm quite fond of this topic 

Just finished Robert Massie's masterpiece 'Peter the Great' which is truly an outstanding book.
Apart from that I'm eagerly waiting for this one to arrive from the UK (actually I'm getting packages from the UK all the time..i wonder what the postman in my small hometown thinks of that)


and i purchased these yesterday:


The last one is a collection of anecdotes of 'old Fritz' in German (the title could be translated to "Transfer this bloke to the infantry!")

Master of Bruges by Terence Morgan - a novel set in Flanders in the 1460s and 70s so both Charles ther Bold and Edward IV make an appearance.

Quote from: J.S. on 09 November 2011, 04:27:31 PM
I fear i' m acting like a thread necromancer now, but i 'm quite fond of this topic 

Just finished Robert Massie's masterpiece 'Peter the Great' which is truly an outstanding book.
Apart from that I'm eagerly waiting for this one to arrive from the UK (actually I'm getting packages from the UK all the time..i wonder what the postman in my small hometown thinks of that)

Anything by Duffy is worth reading. He really is Mr Seven Years War. 

1. Guderian: Panzer Pioneer or Myth Maker? by Russell A. Hart who sets out to prove (rather convincingly) that Guderian wasn't the armour ace he pretended to be.

2. Pierre Picouet's Les Tercios Espagnols 1600-1660, a well-researched and beautifully illustrated monograph on the modern world's first truly professional army.

Cheers,
Aart

"Snuff" by Terry Pratchett....Just finished it....Loved it !

Cheers - Phil.

QuoteLes Tercios Espagnols 1600-1660

sounds interesting. I've been looking for a decent book to reactivate my rusty french skills for quite a while now but sill haven't decided on one (actually atm there's only one other in the closer selection: Les guerres de Louis XIV : 1667-1714)

"Civil War of 1812" by Alan Taylor - So far, an amazing social and political history of "The Canadas" after the American Revolution.  All sorts of stuff they don't teach Canuck kids in school, like the "Late Loyalists", the deliberate policy of low taxes and cheap land, and successive plots by Vermonters to cooperate with a French invasion of lower Canada to overthrow the Brits and US and form a completely other republic. 

All quite fascinating.  He does write about some battles, but it is the society he is interested in.

Love the 'nice' marines!

Remind me of the Pretty Marines



http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Pretty_Marines



Recently finished reading:

Conan the Adventurer - R.E.Howard
At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft

Currently reading:

Warlord of the Air - Michael Moorcock (jolly good yarn it is too!)