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Guys,

I am currently reading 1914 - 1918 The History of the First World War by David Stevenson. Very good single-volume work on the subject.

Best wishes,
Steve

Just finished listening to Cain at Gettysburg audio book, by Ralph Peters. This is a great historical fictional account of the battle.

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Wodin, I love that avatar.

Thanks mate. It's from the Osprey books.When I was doing a Squad Battles mod I had loads of them on the PC. Sadly yesterday my PC went mental so I had to format everything and do I fresh install, I lost all the pics!

I'm supposed to do one for Eagle Strike aswell, but my mojo went out the window after doing RV and AOTR.

wodin,

The Kindly Ones is one of the most intense books you will read. I only know two people who have read it, and we both thought it was a wonderful, powerful book, but there are many who would not agree. I envy you a reading of that book.

Chuck

Currently finishing up Bowfin. I'm still waiting for Bergerud's Oil on the Water which has been delayed anyone have info on the release?

I'm still undecided on my next book as I have many on the shelf waiting.

pacific crucible by Ian w.Toll.Check out bomc2 join and you make a list and each month they charge $9.95 and ship first book on list,free shipping also.
THey also have buy now books for $12.95 with free shipping also

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wodin,

The Kindly Ones is one of the most intense books you will read. I only know two people who have read it, and we both thought it was a wonderful, powerful book, but there are many who would not agree. I envy you a reading of that book.

Chuck

Yeah, I'm loving it. He is still near the Caucasus talking about Lermontov with Voss. It's about Oct '42 so the sh1t will hit the fan. I wouldn't recommend it to the faint of heart or any homophobes either, as the sex scenes are a little graphic. Though does that say something about me that it was more uncomfortable reading that part than the massacres? Yet it is deeply touching and at the same time cold and clinical.

He has just shot that Jew who professed to be over 120 and went to him to be killed as he already knew when and by who would kill him because an angel hand't sealed his lip before birth. Very heavy and quite mystical that part.

Again I'm really enjoying it and I have to say the research in it is astounding and I'm not just talking about the Nazis either. It's a real deep read and the Author deserves all the praise and awards the world has to offfer.

Great book. I remember enjoying it a lot.


Right now I'm reading Metro 2033.

Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick. Entertaining read.

Just downloaded a new audio book from Audible.

The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea

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wodin,

The Kindly Ones is one of the most intense books you will read. I only know two people who have read it, and we both thought it was a wonderful, powerful book, but there are many who would not agree. I envy you a reading of that book.

Chuck

Yeah, I'm loving it. He is still near the Caucasus talking about Lermontov with Voss. It's about Oct '42 so the sh1t will hit the fan. I wouldn't recommend it to the faint of heart or any homophobes either, as the sex scenes are a little graphic. Though does that say something about me that it was more uncomfortable reading that part than the massacres? Yet it is deeply touching and at the same time cold and clinical.

One thing that I really loved about the book is that the protagonist discusses culture and philosophy with other characters. It makes it feel so real.

Perturabo,

I am still looking for the discussions I envied in "Les Miserables" and I have yet to find them, but I'm not dead yet. Intelligent people discussing philosophical issues as if they mattered. I want that.

Chuck

Evan Mawdsleys "Thunder in the East".

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Perturabo,

I am still looking for the discussions I envied in "Les Miserables" and I have yet to find them, but I'm not dead yet. Intelligent people discussing philosophical issues as if they mattered. I want that.

Chuck

What kind of discussions were in "Les Miserables"?

In the time before they went to the barricades the students did some philosophizing in the cafes.

It sounded like great fun to me. I had a class last year in summer school that was a bit like that, but coffee house philosophy is not as common as I would enjoy. The class was a small seminar style political science class and the teacher was able to get discussion going almost at once. I find that sort of class requires a very small class size, which you sometimes get in summer school. Sitting around a cafe doing it must be better, but making time for this sort of thing is not common. If I were teaching I would have some classes, maybe all classes in a coffee shop.

Of course the subject matter would dictate if this could work well.

Chuck

I finally took the plunge and I started to read "The Faeire Queene" by Edmund Spenser. Original language, not a modern translation. Hard but very beautiful and satisfying.

The battle of Marathon by Peter Krentz.....a lot of good research and very informative, but the conclusions / deductions this guy makes are quite strange; for example:

- Athenian and Persian armies were more or less the same size.
You are the biggest empire of the era, you plan an attack on greece for years and all you can gather is an army as big as only one of the city state you plan to conquer ? Doesn't make sense to me.

- Persians had almost no cavalry.
Your armies are famous for the horse archer and the hit-and-run tactics and you bring no cavalry????

- There was no "push" fight
Almost everyone agrees by now that the hoplite battle was a "push" one, where the opposing lines used their shields to phisically push back the enemies. The author denies this idea but offers no valid alternative.

ORIGINAL: cpdeyoung

In the time before they went to the barricades the students did some philosophizing in the cafes.

It sounded like great fun to me. I had a class last year in summer school that was a bit like that, but coffee house philosophy is not as common as I would enjoy. The class was a small seminar style political science class and the teacher was able to get discussion going almost at once. I find that sort of class requires a very small class size, which you sometimes get in summer school. Sitting around a cafe doing it must be better, but making time for this sort of thing is not common. If I were teaching I would have some classes, maybe all classes in a coffee shop.

Of course the subject matter would dictate if this could work well.

Chuck

France or should I say Paris turn of last century was a great place to be for Cafe house philosophy.

"Hitler Moves East" and "Scorched Earth" by Paul Carrel.

I'ts good that we are all reading books, how about Mr. Warspite1 pick a book in which we all will read. Then we will come back and talk about it.