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ORIGINAL: Zorch

I'm waiting for Vincent O'Hara's Six Victories: North Africa Malta and the Mediterranean Convoy War November 1941–March 1942 due this fall.

warspite1

I too await this, though I suspect it will be another tale of how the Regia Marina won the Battle for the Middle Sea.....

I expect better from O'Hara.

Currently re-reading A Great and Glorious Victory: New Perspectives on the Battle of Trafalgar. See https://www.1805club.org/

Hey guys, Cataclysm was a great book and thanks for the info, bought the book for six bucks online used.

Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East, Ziemke.

Just finished The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific 1944-1945 by Hornfischer.

Meh.

Waiting for Ian Toll's take on that period coming "soon"

Thinking about Rick Atkinson's new Trilogy on the American Revolution called "The British are Coming" out next week but I am wondering if it will have anything new enough to justify the time reading it?

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Just finished The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific 1944-1945 by Hornfischer.

Meh.

ORIGINAL: Delaware

Waiting for Ian Toll's take on that period coming "soon"

Thinking about Rick Atkinson's new Trilogy on the American Revolution called "The British are Coming" out next week but I am wondering if it will have anything new enough to justify the time reading it?

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Just finished The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific 1944-1945 by Hornfischer.

Meh.

I am also thinking about picking up his Revolutionary War trilogy, Delaware. My previous efforts to read a cogent summary on the topic have been disappointing. His "Army at Dawn" series was quite good, so I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Delaware

Waiting for Ian Toll's take on that period coming "soon"

Thinking about Rick Atkinson's new Trilogy on the American Revolution called "The British are Coming" out next week but I am wondering if it will have anything new enough to justify the time reading it?

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Just finished The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific 1944-1945 by Hornfischer.

Meh.

I am also thinking about picking up his Revolutionary War trilogy, Delaware. My previous efforts to read a cogent summary on the topic have been disappointing. His "Army at Dawn" series was quite good, so I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I have to wonder how many copies of Fleet at Flood Tide have been sold by Amazon because they list it directly after Toll's first two books on their site and people think its vol 3?

I am currently reading Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War by James Edward Wright.

My next book within the year about the ships stranded in the Suez canal for 8 years.

http://www.mastermariners.org.au/storie ... suez-canal

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Defending The Rock - Gibraltar and the Second World War (Rankin)

Haven't found anything to get into for a while now - so let's see if this scratches an itch....

warspite1

Mmmmm... I'm not exactly finding this a page turner....

Over 100 pages in and it is more a book about the Spanish Civil war at the moment. I mean that is fine as the war affects Gibraltar, but there's a lot that has nothing to do with the rock. Hope it improves!

Junior Officers Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey

Brits in Afghanistan. Harry Flashman it ain't.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Defending The Rock - Gibraltar and the Second World War (Rankin)

Haven't found anything to get into for a while now - so let's see if this scratches an itch....

warspite1

Mmmmm... I'm not exactly finding this a page turner....

Over 100 pages in and it is more a book about the Spanish Civil war at the moment. I mean that is fine as the war affects Gibraltar, but there's a lot that has nothing to do with the rock. Hope it improves!

Does your book answer the timeless question posed by so many of my generation? Namely, "Can you smell what the rock is cookin'!?!"

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Defending The Rock - Gibraltar and the Second World War (Rankin)

Haven't found anything to get into for a while now - so let's see if this scratches an itch....

warspite1

Mmmmm... I'm not exactly finding this a page turner....

Over 100 pages in and it is more a book about the Spanish Civil war at the moment. I mean that is fine as the war affects Gibraltar, but there's a lot that has nothing to do with the rock. Hope it improves!

Does your book answer the timeless question posed by so many of my generation? Namely, "Can you smell what the rock is cookin'!?!"

warspite1

No, but it does have a nice filmography at the back of the book listing his work

I started reading Desert Storm Air War: The Aerial Campaign Against Saddam's Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War by Jim Corrigan

1984 by Orwell

The Eastern Front by Leon DeGrelle

I really hate not having a book to read. After the disappointment of the Gibraltar book, I bought Monte Cassino (Parker) and although obviously a good book (and I will return to it), it isn't scratching the itch.

I was browsing at Waterstones yesterday and saw Gorbachev (Taubman) and, my curiosity piqued by the excellent Chernobyl (last episode tomorrow), I thought I would give it a go. I must say so far its really very good and I look forward to understanding more about this man.

The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History From 3500BC to the Present. 4th Edition 1571 pages. Light reading.

Just started Hitler by Volker Ullrich, supposed to be the best one written, 2016

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History From 3500BC to the Present. 4th Edition 1571 pages. Light reading.

+1 Extremely light.