What Book Are You Reading at the moment?

[Perturabo]

I'm a fantasy reader too.

Right now I'm reading a second part of Sopel (Icicle) by Paweł Kornew. It's a fantasy novel set in an icy world, where people can appear to from the real world. It's basically fantasy with Kalashnikovs. Pretty nice.
Generally, I've noticed that in central-eastern Europe there's now a trend for such mixed fantasy-real life novels.

[warspite1]

Back to the Pacific for me - although its only been a few months, I have just started Frank's Guadalcanal for the second time. Such a good book [&o]

[mikkey]

yeah, Frank's Guadalcanal is excellent book

[parusski]

I would like to interject here about how many of us "we" gamers like fantasy books.

[Empire101]

Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart D. Goldman

Superbly written.
Well worth a look if you are interested in the subject.

[Vyshka]

About 3/4 of the way through Eisenhower's The Bitter Woods. I also received in the mail today an interesting book about Sherman's Atlanta campaign, Sherman Invades Georgia by Gen. John Scales.

[Chijohnaok2]

Just started "The Commodore", #17 in the Aubrey-Maturin series; 16 already read.

[fodder]

"The Pearl Harbor Papers"

[parusski]

ReadingTeam of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin(for the third time). Brilliant book.

[warspite1]

As mentioned, Guadalcanal for night time reading. For the journey to work and back I was lent this little book:

The War That Never Was (Duff Hart-Davis).

I am totally uninterested in warfare post Hiroshima, but this is good! It's about a small band of British mercenaries who helped inflict 20,000 casualties on Nasser's Egyptian army in the Yemen in 1963.

[Anendrue]

The Civil War An American Iliad

[Perturabo]

Ludwig von Eimannsberger - Armoured Warfare - a fascinating reprint of an interwar period book by one of the pioneers of armoured warfare, heavily based on WWI armoured actions.
Krzysztof Marcinek - Passchendaele - The Campaign in Flanders 1917
Stephen Bull - Trench Warfare
Michael S. Neiberg - History of World War I: The Western Front 1914-1916
Alexander Turner - Cambrai 1917 , The birth of armoured warfare
Barbara Tuchman - August 1914
Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth
Otto Basil - The Twilight Men
Jacek Piekata - I, Inquisitor - Scourge of God

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Empire101

Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart D. Goldman

Superbly written.
Well worth a look if you are interested in the subject.

warspite1

Half way through now - a very well written, interesting book.

Just as when reading about Guadalcanal - and just about every aspect of Japanese conduct in and around WWII -I am staggered, frustrated, angry, bewildered.


The army general staff not issuing orders as such, as this was considered impolite, allowing the Kwantung Army to do as it pleased.

And as for Gekokujo..I mean what the hell was that all about?

The sheer incompetence of the Japanese military in conducting operations was quite astounding. The more I read about the Japanese in WWII the more anger I feel about the fall of Malaya and Singapore [:@].

[radic202]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Empire101

Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart D. Goldman

Superbly written.
Well worth a look if you are interested in the subject.

warspite1

Half way through now - a very well written, interesting book.

Just as when reading about Guadalcanal - and just about every aspect of Japanese conduct in and around WWII -I am staggered, frustrated, angry, bewildered.


The army general staff not issuing orders as such, as this was considered impolite, allowing the Kwantung Army to do as it pleased.

And as for Gekokujo..I mean what the hell was that all about?

The sheer incompetence of the Japanese military in conducting operations was quite astounding. The more I read about the Japanese in WWII the more anger I feel about the fall of Malaya and Singapore [:@].

I generally do not read Contemporary War Novels/Accounts but now you have me interested. I will see if I can find it somewhere.

Currently just finished reading this:

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Absolutely phenomenal and picked this up now :

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But a friend of mine loaned me this Zombie Apocalypse novel or more of an Anthology and haven't been able to put it down as I love the way it is snap shots of various events told form 200 years in the past in London to present day London and the rest of the world.

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[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: warspite1


Half way through now - a very well written, interesting book.

Just as when reading about Guadalcanal - and just about every aspect of Japanese conduct in and around WWII -I am staggered, frustrated, angry, bewildered.


The army general staff not issuing orders as such, as this was considered impolite, allowing the Kwantung Army to do as it pleased.

And as for Gekokujo..I mean what the hell was that all about?

The sheer incompetence of the Japanese military in conducting operations was quite astounding. The more I read about the Japanese in WWII the more anger I feel about the fall of Malaya and Singapore [:@].

I've had the same feeling too. Gekokujo is very much like the tail wagging the dog.
No matter how much the Kwantung Army was considered an elite force in Tokyo, to let matters like this get out of hand in this case is almost beyond comprehension.

Don't be too hard on General Percival. He made some mistakes sure, but the Empires forces in the Far East were very low down on London's priorities in terms of support and reinforcements.

The loss of the city's water supplies was one of the deciding factors in the debacle at Singapore surely?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Empire101

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Half way through now - a very well written, interesting book.

Just as when reading about Guadalcanal - and just about every aspect of Japanese conduct in and around WWII -I am staggered, frustrated, angry, bewildered.

The army general staff not issuing orders as such, as this was considered impolite, allowing the Kwantung Army to do as it pleased.

And as for Gekokujo..I mean what the hell was that all about?

The sheer incompetence of the Japanese military in conducting operations was quite astounding. The more I read about the Japanese in WWII the more anger I feel about the fall of Malaya and Singapore [:@].

I've had the same feeling too. Gekokujo is very much like the tail wagging the dog.
No matter how much the Kwantung Army was considered an elite force in Tokyo, to let matters like this get out of hand in this case is almost beyond comprehension.

Don't be too hard on General Percival. He made some mistakes sure, but the Empires forces in the Far East were very low down on London's priorities in terms of support and reinforcements.

The loss of the city's water supplies was one of the deciding factors in the debacle at Singapore surely?

Warspite1

I think it was pretty much over by then - although how much more time the Japanese had before they needed major re-supply I forget. Holding Malaya was key.

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, but a few Hurricanes/Spitfires, and tanks (which went to the Soviet Union), may well have tipped the balance....

[Empire101]

I think General Yamashita was on the verge of halting the attack on Singapore because of a severe ammunition shortage, I think 25th Army only had three days stock of shells and ordinance left.

Yamashita called Percivals bluff really.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Empire101

I think General Yamashita was on the verge of halting the attack on Singapore because of a severe ammunition shortage, I think 25th Army only had three days stock of shells and ordinance left.

Yamashita called Percivals bluff really.

Warspite1

Exactement as we say in Deutschland.

[Lieste]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

The War That Never Was (Duff Hart-Davis).

Funny, just got that one from the library for my brother while he recuperates following a stroke...

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Empire101

I think General Yamashita was on the verge of halting the attack on Singapore because of a severe ammunition shortage, I think 25th Army only had three days stock of shells and ordinance left.

Yamashita called Percivals bluff really.

Warspite1

Exactement as we say in Deutschland.

Well you are right, but Percival was a humane man.
He knew what the Japanese were capable of vis civilian populations, and he certainly did'nt want that sort of blood on his hands.