I am currently reading "The Divine Invasion" by Philip K Dick.

The Shark Mutiny by Patrick Robinson.
Cheers - Phil.

Re-reading the Battle for Geilenkirchen by Ken Ford.

Lived there when I was a kid, with BFPO. Had friends who dug up bullets and other things, but didn't really appreciate what had gone on.

Hi.  Just finishing the final book in the trilogy about Atilla by William Napier.  Good stuff!

DaveL

Am falling about reading 'Achtung Schweinehund' by H Pearson. Some of it too close for comfort.

Love that book!

Just started 'Skymen' by Robert Kershaw, all about the history of paratroopers from the earliest inception up to the present day. So far so good.

Just started "Seconds Away" by Harlen Coben....Listening rather than reading, as per usual.
I think it's more of a book for youngsters.....But it'll help pass the time
I really must investigate.... and see if there are any of the books you lot find so useful, out there in audio format.
THEN it'll be a case of trying to bully the library van to get them in stock.

Recommendations please chaps for books that just might be available in audio format.
Books dealing with "The Ancients" would be good for inspiration when I'm pushing the putty about.

(In truth, I doubt if there are going to be that many, as the 'reference' books that I know you all find so useful for info and inspiration probably rely a lot of diagrams/maps etc.......But you never know ! )

Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: fsn on 05 May 2013, 09:04:06 AM
Re-reading the Battle for Geilenkirchen by Ken Ford.

Always worth a re-read along with his Assault Crossing River Seine

Just finished Operation Epsom Over the Battlefield by Ian Daglish and Michael Reynolds Eagles and Bulldogs will be next (Pen & Sword just had a sale)

Finished Atilla.  Now reading trilogy by Ross Leckie about Hannibal, Scipio and Carthage. Very enjoyable

DaveL

Re-reading The Personal Memoirs of General Grant.

QuoteFinished Atilla.  Now reading trilogy by Ross Leckie about Hannibal, Scipio and Carthage. Very enjoyable

Excellent books. Much better IMHO than the ones by Ben Kane. Had to stop about a quarter of the way into the first one.

Re-reading HG Wells War of the worlds. Getting a bit caught up on martian wars on kickstarter 

Just finished The Austro-Prussian War of 1866: The Opening Battles by a certain John Drewienkiewicz and Andrew Brentnall and acquired at Salute last month. Highly informative; almost made me want to go off tramping around the Czech Republic (I did say "almost"!).

Can't wait for the Kônigggrätz follow-up! 

Right chaps.

Recommendations please.

Seeing as I've been doing lots of conversions for a number of you from periods I know absolutely bog all about.....I believe most of these are 19th C.....Which to me means 'Napoleonic'..(Yes....I know..sorry, I'm a historical ignoramus, which I truly regret)....Which I really have enjoyed doing.
I'm beginning to fully understand why folk get so engrossed in this 'period'.

It's time for me to take the plunge and actually read something now.....Not just listen to audio books.

I want to give myself some sort of overview on the history of this period, so that I don't feel such an ignorant twerp.
I'm not so interested in the minutiae of the uniforms at this point. I just want to start to understand the time-lines, the politics, what was going on etc.

I've been doing a 'trawl' for various possibilities that I might invest in.

So far....
I've come up with........

"Warfare in the 19thC (European History in Perspective)" by David Gates.
"Battle Zones - Warfare in the 16th to 19th centuries" by Mark Bergin.
"Warfare and Society in Europe 1792-1914, Warfare and History" by Geoffry Wavro.

Any of these been read by any of you ?.....Are they fairly comprehensive ?

They don't have to be perfect....I really want to get into the 'history' in a 'rough' sense.

Any others you'd say give a brief but useful 'history' ?

Cheers - Phil.

For a general overview of a period, I've found the Osprey 'Essential histories' series to be useful. They give you the time-line, major events and backgrounds of a period. And they provide a 'further reading' section with selected titles. Maybe worth a shot? That said, I think the usefulness may vary a bit from title to title, depending on the author involved. And I haven't seen any of their titles on the Napoleonic period, myself.

But I'm sure more knowledgable members will chime in shortly.

Many thanks 'O'.

That/those might well be worth a shot.
Like I say.....I just really want something that will give me a 'time line' etc....as you've mentioned....
No point in me diving in with anything that's too comprehensive....I know I'd get lost far too quickly.

I really do want to give myself 'some sort of education' regarding the history of what was 'going on' .....even if it's fairly annotated.
Cheers - Phil.

Hi Phil

Will drop of the couple of Essential Histories I have for you to read won't tell you which ones that will be a suprise??

Martin

That'll be brilliant mate !
See you soon ! 
Cheers - Phil.

Re-reading the Tide at Sunrise, the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.
  AND Pendraken do some figures.
                                                   next project ?


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