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Brought 4 Hours of Fury with me on vacation and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's the underappreciated review of the 17th Airborne Division's drops during Operation Varsity and the vaulting over the Rhine. Sidebar references to the British 6th Airborne Division as needs befit. Recommended.

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Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns

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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.

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This is a good book, but reading about the Soviet Union is just so grim! The incredible poverty combined with the fear of denunciation - what a combo....

Swords Around A Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee by Colonel John R. Elting

Adolf Hitler by John Toland

Looking forward to this [:)] Should be here sometime next month, Hussar!!

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Looking forward to this [:)] Should be here sometime next month, Hussar!!

Especially the 'K' class.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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.

warspite1

This is a good book, but reading about the Soviet Union is just so grim! The incredible poverty combined with the fear of denunciation - what a combo....

warspite1

The book is starting to get really interesting now. But what a system. I never realised that Brezhnev was so infirm and yet remained in office for so long. Effectively he was mentally incapacitated but......

In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Philbrick, Nathaniel

Just started The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945 from David M. Glantz.

And, I have the second volume waiting:
Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945

The British are Coming-the long-awaited first book in the revolutionary war trilogy by Atkinson. Very good read thus far (about the first quarter).

I’m reading “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever”. It is a fantasy series from the late Seventies and The Eighties developed over two trilogies The protagonist is a man suffering from leprosy who is magically transferred in a fantasy place called “The Land” - and Force to do battle The Despiser (AKA the Local Sauron).

The storyline and the Lore of the Land are interesting, but the main character is an insufferable jerk. Even if the magic of the Land cures his leprosy, Covenant remains the classic guy who hates everybody and everything; the self-hater who flogs constantly himself while munching his elbows - if you get my meaning.

Anyway, the story so far (I’m midway book two of the first trilogy) is interesting - even if the attempts to write song and poems are dire [8|] The “Land” is a smaller place than Middle Earth - both in size and lore - so the reading is easy. I guess that choose these books because they are a refreshing distraction from the Summer temperatures here in Southern Italy [:)]

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...and this arrived today, Hussah!![:)]

Just ordered The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and Somme, by John Keegan...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275833.The_Face_of_Battle

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Just finished all eleven (!) books in Jon Land's utterly ridiculous Blaine McCracken (is there a better name for an action hero) thriller series.

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Just ordered The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and Somme, by John Keegan...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275833.The_Face_of_Battle

Red

I'm curious how this book holds up, 40 years later. Let me know...

Since I am so seriously enjoying playing Empires, started on Mary Beard's SPQR (first book I have bought in 6 months). And its an excellent study in how to read history, as well as funny and very erudite.

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Just ordered The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and Somme, by John Keegan...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275833.The_Face_of_Battle

Red

I'm curious how this book holds up, 40 years later. Let me know...

Sure will [;)]

Got my hands on a second hand copy of Inside the Soviet Army, by Viktor Suvorov...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700271.Inside_the_Soviet_Army

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