What Book Are You Reading at the moment?

[OldSarge]

I've just finished up "Maurice's Strategikon", translated by George Dennis and "Byzantium and Its Army 284-1081" By Warren Threadgold. Good reads both, if you're into that period.

I'll probably dive into a book on the Thirty Years war next.

[Rosseau]

As cheap as I am, I'll probably order The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics) Paperback – June 30, 2005
by C. V. Wedgwood. $15 for paperback on Amazon.

[loki100]

Disunited Kingdom by Iain MacWhirter. Probably the best political journalist in Scotland at the moment and its short but insightful discussion of last years independence referendum. Offers a compelling argument for why 'yes' surprised many by coming so close but equally why the end result was the (for now) clear rejection of independence (and why that is not a stable situation going forward).

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: loki100

Disunited Kingdom by Iain MacWhirter. Probably the best political journalist in Scotland at the moment and its short but insightful discussion of last years independence referendum. Offers a compelling argument for why 'yes' surprised many by coming so close but equally why the end result was the (for now) clear rejection of independence (and why that is not a stable situation going forward).

warspite1

The book title says it all; Disunited Kingdom - How Westminster won a referendum but Lost Scotland.

Well let's be honest, Scotland cannot remain in the Union - it's just a receipe for discontent and ill-feeling - and those feelings will only get worse as each day passes. The English will forever be seen as the enemy holding the Scots back - and we know from history where that sort of situation ends up.

As monumentally sad as it will be - and frankly it will break my heart to see my country torn apart - better the split is made now and made cleanly. At least that way, what will be will be - for good or for ill - but it will be the Scots who decide their future.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

More or less back to business [8D]

I read Stalingrad - The Turning Point by Geoffrey Jukes

And I am almost finishing Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. The first time I read this uber famous book.

I found this site which shows the hiding in 3d:

http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/

I am glad that you are back in business. [:)]

My second grade teacher read Anne Frank for us. I suspect that I was to young to fully understand.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

More or less back to business [8D]

I read Stalingrad - The Turning Point by Geoffrey Jukes

And I am almost finishing Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. The first time I read this uber famous book.

I found this site which shows the hiding in 3d:

http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/

I am glad that you are back in business. [:)]

My second grade teacher read Anne Frank for us. I suspect that I was to young to fully understand.

warspite1

I watched a BBC play with my eldest Warspite about the family's time in hiding - up until the point they were caught. Defo large hankies were required by both of us at the end [:(]

[barkhorn45]

"Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1942"by Robert Forczyk.
A highly detailed and readable book.

[loki100]

Given the anniversary events for the Battle of Britain, dug out David Grieg's That Summer. Typically slightly off centre novel about the events of 1940, complete with the obigatory (if rather shoe-horned in) mountaineering scenes.

[kentcol]

Reading Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
by Donald L. Miller (Author)
Awesome read.

[Beilisarius]

War of the Roses by Dan Jones.
Fascinating history told by a master story teller. HIGHLY recommended

[rhondabrwn]

Found! Amazon publishes a Kindle version of the classic "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" that is actually readable with all the original maps and illustrations.

http://www.amazon.com/Battles-Leaders-C ... +civil+war

[rhondabrwn]

I've had a chance to spend several hours reviewing Volume I of "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" and it is incredible!

Everything is there... every map, every article, every order of battle and notes. Pictures and maps are nicely hyperlinked and indexed to you can jump out of view a map and then return back to where you were reading. Everything is very clear and readable. If this was an OCR scan to get the text, it's the best I've ever seen. In my reading I didn't find a single spelling error... amazing.

Each of the volumes is close to a 30 Megabyte download, that tells you a lot about how much content you are getting for $2.99 a volume. The credits indicate that this is an Amazon publication... not something from a publishing house or one of those free book scan sites.

One of my concerns about e-books was the often excessive pricing by the big Publishing houses. There were, of course, law suits over the pricing and Amazon was on the defensive about how they weren't setting the high prices... they were forced into it. If this production of "Battles and Leaders" is, indeed, an in house Amazon production, it bodes very well for being able to get long out of print classics in a good quality, affordable e-book.

Happy Days [:)]

[rustysi]

Shattered Sword, but recent eye surgery has pretty much put the ca-bash on too much reading.

[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Shattered Sword, but recent eye surgery has pretty much put the ca-bash on too much reading.

Sorry to hear that My own worst nightmare... not being able to read! I hope the prognosis is for a full recovery!

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Shattered Sword, but recent eye surgery has pretty much put the ca-bash on too much reading.

warspite1

Sorry to hear that [:(]

Re the book, anyone who doesn't know about this - but likes the naval side of war, should buy it asap.

I cannot recommend this book too much - it is written the way all war books should be written. It is quite simply, the dogs dangly bits. [&o]
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[rustysi]

Sorry to hear that My own worst nightmare... not being able to read! I hope the prognosis is for a full recovery!

Sorry to hear that

Thanks guys. Doc says everything should be fine, but I'm having some doubts. Probably just my impatience.

[warspite1]

Geirr H Haar has to be my favourite author [&o]

Am reading No Room for Mistakes and this is proving another excellent read from this superb writer.

One bit made me rather sad though. The author was writing a passage about HMS Sterlet. No one knows for certain what happened to her or where her and her crew's last resting place is - and probably never will. Obviously quite a few subs suffered similar ends - all very sad [:(]

[Eambar]

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.

Seems pretty good so far.

Just finished The Kills by Richard House. Not sure how I feel about that one.

Cheers,

[warspite1]

Coming to the end of No Room For Mistakes.

Next up its Franco and Hitler Payne.

[mahks]

War of the World -Niall Ferguson

Premise : There were not 2 world wars. The 20th century was one never ending war based on ethnic genocides.