Quote from: Last Hussar on 15 April 2013, 06:09:24 PM
The Psychopath test by Jon Ronson.

I just read that! As a mental health professional with a special interest in personality disorders, I was very impressed with it.

Im reading With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem)  by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz to get me in the mood for By Fire and Sword the wargame.

I'm on a Korean War kick. I started it before the recent tension, and it's a chilling look back to what might be. My reading has encompassed:

Scorched Earth, Black Snow by Andrew Salmon
To the Last Round by Andrew Salmon
The Edge of the Sword by Anthony Farrah-Hockley
Pork Chop Hill by SLA Marshall
Infantry Operations & Weapons Usage by SLA Marshall
The Korean War by Max Hastings
The Korean War published by Osprey

Aside from the film of "Pork Chop Hill" with Gregory Peckl, I've also watched "A Hill in Korea" with a very young Michael Caine.

Now, if only some friendly 10mm manufacturer would get round to producing a Centurion.

The Andrew Salmon book is very good as is the Max Hastings one. The Centurions tanks have been mastered so we just await a release date .

 

Quote from: fsn on 16 April 2013, 05:36:36 PM
I'm on a Korean War kick. I started it before the recent tension, and it's a chilling look back to what might be. My reading has encompassed:

Scorched Earth, Black Snow by Andrew Salmon
To the Last Round by Andrew Salmon
The Edge of the Sword by Anthony Farrah-Hockley
Pork Chop Hill by SLA Marshall
Infantry Operations & Weapons Usage by SLA Marshall
The Korean War by Max Hastings
The Korean War published by Osprey

Aside from the film of "Pork Chop Hill" with Gregory Peckl, I've also watched "A Hill in Korea" with a very young Michael Caine.

Now, if only some friendly 10mm manufacturer would get round to producing a Centurion.

Read the Max Hastings book. If the Chinese had known then what they know now.....

Greetings

Years ago I picked up the 2 volume British Official History of the war in Korea remaindered - I'll have to dig it out.

Regards

Edward

I've finally got my hands on Runciman's history of the crusades. It's a real page-turner.

Read that some years ago and you're right it's excellent.

The new one by Asbridge is not bad either if that's your current interest

I'm listing to Hitler's Rockets by Norman Longmate.

Bryan

I've just about finished Samuel Hawley's 'The Imjin War', in my opinion the best work in English on Toyotimi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea.

Totally agree, though there's not much in English written on it. Kenneth Swope's book does provide a good Chinese perspective, but just wasn't as interesting a read.

Just finished The Spanish Civil War by Mr Beevor and have started Bernard Falls Street Without Joy.

Just finished 'The Zulu kings' by Brian Roberts, a wonderful and well researched biography of the zulu kings from the inception of the kingdom to the woes of the king that never was - Dinizulu.
Highly recommend it to anyone looking to gain an insight into the foundations of British colonial intervention and the precarious kingship of the Zulu nation.

A mate picked it up in Oxfam for me for 2 quid so absolutely chuffed and definitely one to be re-read every few years.

Moving on to 'Revolutionary Boston, Lexington and Concord - the shots heard 'round the world' by Joseph Andrews.

Cheers

Ry

I've a few chapters into "The Battle of the Rhine 1944", by Robin Neillands.

First book that I've read in a while that suggests Montgomery was actually any good as a general. He had, in fact more real experience than any five American generals in NW Europe in 1944. Also suggests that Eisenhower over extended himself and that Patton was a bit of a one trick pony.

Perhaps because this panders to my own logically arrived at, reasoned prejudices that I'm really enjoying it.

But nobody must tell me how it ends. 

Not a bad book FSN. I think I read it last year.

Picked up "Warsaw 1920" by Adam Zamoyski at the library yesterday, so looking forward to knowing more about this conflict (and also either gaming it or using some of the stuff for my AVBCW games ).

Quote from: mijalo on 19 April 2013, 05:44:11 PM
I've just about finished Samuel Hawley's 'The Imjin War', in my opinion the best work in English on Toyotimi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea.

Now if a few more Ming figures became available....

"Titans of History" by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Basically a book that presents potted histories of famous people who have shaped our World. So far an excellent book that often makes you want to find out more on some of the subjects, which is its aim really. The trouble is it makes you want to collect lots of armies to game some of the periods written about .

Just started Marc Morris's A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain. This was a man who, at sixteen, was married and already a powerful political figure. Great stuff.

Hmm, as per now, its War in the Sudan 1884-1898 by Stuart Asquith, Khartoum 1885 and Omduran 1898 both by Donald Featherstone for some research, Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper by Martin M Pegler and The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux, both for entertainment and other interests.