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A great and funny trip through the life of a wargamer...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Achtung-Schwein ... =8-1-fkmr0


Review...from Amazon

'His war-obsessed childhood is so warm and funny and true you might be tempted to hug yourself with delight' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, perceptive ... Pearson has you laughing throughout with guilty recognition. You learn a lot of quirky facts and a fair bit of military history from this endearing memoir' SUNDAY TIMES 'He has a very good line in comedy' DAILY MAIL 'A funny, perceptive book about men and their ineradicable love of war ... Harry Pearson has you laughing throughout with guilty recognition' Christopher Hart, SUNDAY TIMES 'Funny, scourgingly honest and sometimes affecting ... even more fun than Escape from Colditz' Mark Simpson, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'A gloriously hilarious account of how much fun it can be to play war games' Michael Gove, THE TIMES 'A fascinating document of an unusual life' OBSERVER 'A witty and engaging book' Nicholas Tucker, INDEPENDENT 'Will set the blood coursing through the veins of countless fans of comics celebrating fictional wartime heroes' Christopher Matthew, DAILY MAIL 'So warm and funny and true you might be tempted to hug yourself with delight' Marcus Berkmann, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Offers keen historical interest, cracking trivia and a vital sense of self-awareness as he discusses his peers on the gaming scene' Peter Watts, TIME OUT 'An intimate, vivid and hilarious biography' Andy Milne, HERALD 'This spiffing, biffing book will reload the memory banks for generations of kids who formed the make-believe cadet section of the Home Guard and were still flushing out Germans from behind the bikeshed more than 20 years after the Second World War ended' Aidan Smith, SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

So have you read this one, then? What did you think of it? It sounds pretty good.

martok....it's in my wish list...I am going to get it...maybe for Xmas....I will give the heads up once read...does look a good read though.

ORIGINAL: martok
So have you read this one, then? What did you think of it? It sounds pretty good.

A buddy of mine has it - I skipped through it on a couple of occasions - it's funny, but only if you're familiar with British history and customs.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

Great book, especially if you are a brit, brought back a lot of memories as well as being very funny in places.

For all those Brits with an RPG past, this one is good as well (might even amuse a few non-brits):

The Elfish Gene. Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange

ORIGINAL: wodin

martok....it's in my wish list...I am going to get it...maybe for Xmas....I will give the heads up once read...does look a good read though.

Cool. If/when you do get the book, I'd definitely be interested in your take on it.