What Book Are You Reading at the moment?

[Hotschi]

Finished Singapore Burning by Colin Smith - very good reading. Started reading Wars of Empire by Douglas Porch. Hostages to Fortune, as mentioned above, already arrived at my place.

Ordered David Hobbs' The British Pacifc Fleet today, as well as a paperbook, which I was eyeing already for a while, namely Wings over the Pacific by Alex Horn - about the RNZAF in the Pacific War. Usually sells around 75 Euros but there was one on offer for 2/3 of this. Still expensive for a paperback, but I am insane enough to pay it [:D]

[Max 86]

The Massacre of ABDA by JF Ready - Kindle version. Poorly written, desperately needs an editor. Some paragraphs are literally pointless....literally. Otherwise, author did their homework covering the initial Japanese advance in Dec1941 in all ABDA theatres, Malaya, Phillipines, etc.... I have learned quite a bit on the Japanese side. Nothing spectacular unless the subject is of special interest to you.

[Navodchik]

Just finished Bernard Cornwell's Azincourt. Fictional story about longbowmen in Hundred Years' War. Very fast to read and entertaining (and yes, bloody) like most books by Cornwell, but I found also the novel's period quite interesting because I didn't know literally anything about this conflict.

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: rosseau

I am saving Castles of Steel for Christmas. Glad it is good.

Now reading The 10,000 by the guy who wrote Team Yankee. It is not very good. But wow, whoever recommended The Sixth Battle was right. Awesome book. Thanks.

I read Team Yankee many years ago. Pretty fun read IIRC. Most of the war books I have these days, though, are statistical books and not really war stories of any kind. Too much gaming has taken its toll on my book collection.

[berto]

Taking a break from The Story of Civilization, now reading Charles Krauthammer's Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics.

[DSwain]

"Defeat Into Victory" Bill Slim and "Overlord" Max Hastings

[cpdeyoung]

Jonathan Sperber's new biography of Karl Marx. I am very impressed, and learning a lot.

Chuck

[Orm]

Just finished the sixth book in The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories

[nate25]

Stackpole's "Michael Wittman and the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII, Volumes One and Two, By Patrick Agte.

Just picked them up. Hoping for a good read.

[Ranger33]

Dune by Frank Herbert.

Amazing read so far. It's like a sci-fi Game of Thrones, minus the R rated bits.

[Chickenboy]

Hi Ranger33,

Dune was, in my opinion, terrible. It put me off of the Fantasy/ Sci-fi genre for 15 years. To each their own of course.

Just out of curiosity, what do you find intriguing about it that I missed?

[JamesM]

Max Hastings "Catastrophe", very well written and an overall excellent read.

http://www.amazon.com/Catastrophe-Sir-M ... 013&sr=1-1

[DampSquib]

Ayako by Osamu Tezuka.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: jamesm

Max Hastings "Catastrophe", very well written and an overall excellent read.

http://www.amazon.com/Catastrophe-Sir-M ... 013&sr=1-1

warspite1

I am reading this at the moment as I mentioned previously. Its a good book and Hastings has an eminently enjoyable writing style - very easy to read.

The problem I find is that he is - not for the first time - too hard on the British Army. To effectively discount one man's VC is pretty shoddy in my opinion.

[Rosseau]

"The War in 2020" by Ralph Peters. It's a page turner, but a bit depressing, tbh.

[cpdeyoung]

Catastrophe - I enjoyed this book. I liked the transition from diplomacy to the opening battles of the war.

Warspite1 - There does seem to be a big change in opinion of the British Army, in both world wars, from the books I read in my youth to today. I remember reading about the Normandy campaign after the landings, with some significant beating up of the British forces by the author. I don't remember the book just off hand.

Chuck

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: cpdeyoung

Catastrophe - I enjoyed this book. I liked the transition from diplomacy to the opening battles of the war.

Warspite1 - There does seem to be a big change in opinion of the British Army, in both world wars, from the books I read in my youth to today. I remember reading about the Normandy campaign after the landings, with some significant beating up of the British forces by the author. I don't remember the book just off hand.

Chuck

warspite1

Armageddon probably - by the same author...

[Ranger33]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Hi Ranger33,

Dune was, in my opinion, terrible. It put me off of the Fantasy/ Sci-fi genre for 15 years. To each their own of course.

Just out of curiosity, what do you find intriguing about it that I missed?

You hated it that much? I can understand someone not liking a particular book but that seems really extreme. Anyway, I'm only through the first act or so, so I reserve the right to change my opinion, but I really like the atmosphere and the world building. Right off the bat you have cool high-tech stuff mixed with elements of mysticism and various layers of politics and intrigue. It's certainly a page-turner for me.

As you said, to each their own.

[comte]

A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin

[lecrop]

"Sevastopol Sketches" - Leo Tolstoy