What Book Are You Reading at the moment?

[Frido1207]

Translated edition of

Keith Lowe: Savage Continent. Europe in the Aftermath of World War 2.

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0141034 ... _i=desktop

[decaro]

"God & Churchill," by Jonathan Sandys & Wallace Henley.

[Poopyhead]

Guerrila Warfare, a translation of Mao Tsu Tung's Yu Chi Chan.

http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publi ... arfare.pdf

[Zorch]

'The Royal Navy's Revenge and Other Little-Known Encounters of the War at Sea' by Vincent P. O'Hara

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

'The Royal Navy's Revenge and Other Little-Known Encounters of the War at Sea' by Vincent P. O'Hara

warspite1

What encounters does he cover Zorch?

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zorch

'The Royal Navy's Revenge and Other Little-Known Encounters of the War at Sea' by Vincent P. O'Hara

warspite1

What encounters does he cover Zorch?

1 French vs Thai - Koh Chang Jan 1941
2 Italian vs German - Bastia 9 September 1943
3 British vs Japan - Penang 16 May 1945
4 Allies vs German - Channel Islands
5 Us vs German - Imperia 1 October 1944
6 British vs French - Syria June 1941
7 US vs Japan - Balikpapan 1942

These are articles previously published in magazines.
A slim volume, but definitely worth reading.

[loki100]

ORIGINAL: loki100

Richard Overy - The Bombing War. Covers the entire war and every state that used bombing of cities/industry as part of their approach. Switches from the impact on societies to the stresses that afflicted the bomber crews. To me its that near perfect mix of the politics, economics and psychology of war.

realise this thread is for what you are reading but just finished this and its truely excellent. No doubt much that was new to me would be well known to anyone who has read the various airforce technical evaluations, but even so this is worth the read.

The final chapters on allied bombing in allied countries was very interesting (especially as my wife is Dutch and her mother is old enough to have lived through the 'hunger winter' of 1944-5), the comparative study of why Germany, Britain and the USSR coped with bombing but fascist Italy didn't is well set out.

But the highlight was reading that Malta created a special ministerial post in 1942 ... I can't think that many civil service style bureaucracies ever have had to write reports to the 'Minister for Rabbits'

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zorch

'The Royal Navy's Revenge and Other Little-Known Encounters of the War at Sea' by Vincent P. O'Hara

warspite1

What encounters does he cover Zorch?

1 French vs Thai - Koh Chang Jan 1941
2 Italian vs German - Bastia 9 September 1943
3 British vs Japan - Penang 16 May 1945
4 Allies vs German - Channel Islands
5 Us vs German - Imperia 1 October 1944
6 British vs French - Syria June 1941
7 US vs Japan - Balikpapan 1942

These are articles previously published in magazines.
A slim volume, but definitely worth reading.

warspite1

Thank-you - so where does HMS Revenge come in?

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: warspite1


warspite1

What encounters does he cover Zorch?

1 French vs Thai - Koh Chang Jan 1941
2 Italian vs German - Bastia 9 September 1943
3 British vs Japan - Penang 16 May 1945
4 Allies vs German - Channel Islands
5 Us vs German - Imperia 1 October 1944
6 British vs French - Syria June 1941
7 US vs Japan - Balikpapan 1942

These are articles previously published in magazines.
A slim volume, but definitely worth reading.

warspite1

Thank-you - so where does HMS Revenge come in?

The Penang article was subtitled 'Revenge of the Royal Navy'.
HMS Revenge was not involved.

[warspite1]

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: warspite1


warspite1

What encounters does he cover Zorch?

1 French vs Thai - Koh Chang Jan 1941
2 Italian vs German - Bastia 9 September 1943
3 British vs Japan - Penang 16 May 1945
4 Allies vs German - Channel Islands
5 Us vs German - Imperia 1 October 1944
6 British vs French - Syria June 1941
7 US vs Japan - Balikpapan 1942

These are articles previously published in magazines.
A slim volume, but definitely worth reading.

warspite1

Thank-you - so where does HMS Revenge come in?

warspite1

[&:]so why the capital R? How strange....

[barkhorn45]

Joseph Balkoski's Our Tortured Soul's.

[TulliusDetritus]

The Ancient Economy by Moses I. Finley

"A splendid contribution to the economic history of classical antiquity. It compels the reader to recognize the depth of the transformation from the ancient consumer economy based on slave and serf labor to the modern capitalist, investment, production, profit economy." -- Floyd Sewer Lear, Business History Review

[redcoat]

As background reading for CMANO I’ve read a short report on the modern Russian Navy called The Russian Navy – A Historic Transition. It is available to read online for free on this website.

[Oberst_Klink]

Got 'Fortress Rabaul' by Bruce Gamble... already a jolly good and exciting read!

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[Foggy]

Battleground Russia - by Prit Buttar - great book

[warspite1]

Just read End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman. That was a waste of my life and time I will never get back [8|]

Never mind - its back to Glantz and When Titans Clashed. What a quality read [:)]

This could be good [:)][8D] - coming out this month.

[TulliusDetritus]

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Just read End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman. That was a waste of my life and time I will never get back [8|]

I really liked the book. "Waste of my life"?

[warspite1]

There is a book out on the Hungarian Armed Forces after WWI and during WWII. I thought that looks interesting but I would leave it as this was only Volume I and would wait for Volume II to come out before making a decision.

Volume II is now out - but instead of being priced reasonably like Volume I, its on sale for £50!!

That's seems a) a tad rich for my budget, but b) what a rip-off. So anyone buying volume I (no doubt in most cases with a view to completing the work) has to pay a massive premium to do this. Poor.

[DonCzirr]

Horus Rising by Dan Abnett ... apparently I have a very long journey ahead