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!)

Game of Thrones is waiting to start, almost finished the first "Destroyermen" book.

IanS

Hi

Reading , Wars of the Roses ( The first English civil ) by Trevor Royale. Which isn`t suprising as I`m painting up a large Yorkist army at the moment and wanted to add some flavor to what I`m doing . It`s 495 pages long but the actual war doesn`t start till page 215 but don`t let that put you off as the background is tremendous ( Richard II is a right a******e). The way he describes the gathering storm as the nobles are all spoiling for a scrap and sides are taken is great.

Jim

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

Michael Moorcock, now there's a name you don't hear very often these days, he wrote some brilliant stuff and is the foundation of so much we take for granted in the world of fantasy literature/gaming, the whole concept of Law/Choas was originally his.  My favourites were the Elric books and as a single tome Gloryana was fantastic.

I've just finished "The curious case of the clockwork man" by Mark Hodder, definately the best steampunk writter I've read.  One a more serious not I'm nearly finished re-reading "Millenium" by Tom Holland, an excellent work tracing the development of Europe from about 800 to 1100, from barbarian tribal based societies to relatively stable kingdoms based on the feudal system and the church's authority.

Finally got round to reading Cornwell's 'The Burning Land' which was a birthday present last year, quite enjoy his Saxon & Arther series, went off Sharpe a decade or so ago. Now reading 'Arnhem' by John Nichol and Tony Rennell, only on the first chapter but seems good, not expecting any startling revelations it's the man on the grounds experiences.

Just started The scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham a great bargain of £2.50 from the charity shop.

Ah yes Michael Moorcock! I spent lots of time reading his books when I was younger. My particular favourites are The Warhound and the world's pain, dancer's at the end of time and the Dorian Hawkmoon's books

Osprey's "The Russian Civil War."
DP

Next book in the Horus Heresy series - only another 20 to go....

SM Stirling's "Dies the Fire Series", right now on last year's release. 

http://hem.bredband.net/b104699/books/highking/highking_cv.html

I am trying to decide if I want the new one in hardcover, or to wait a year.  I think at the moment I will go ahead and pick it up.

'Game of Thrones' book 5 (A Dance with Dragons) just over half way through.

Last week finished 'Conqueror', last of the series by Conn Iggulden

Chad