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I am reading a new book, They Called Us Currahees: The 3-506 Vietnam Legacy by Jerald W. Berry.

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I believe in God, I respect the Court, Fear the Police, and pray to the Nomads every night for justice.

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Hi Warspite
Regarding A War of Empires, I have not gotten to it yet, but there is quite a buzz about it on Twitter from specialists in that area. The author himself is quite a good guy also.

warspite1

Thank-you for the response. I am keeping this under consideration. I’ll probably take the plunge at some point based on what I’ve seen and heard.

The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes - by Mark Urban

It's about the Peninsula campaigns. I've just finished it.


https://www.worldcat.org/title/man-who- ... c/47183418

Think fast think slow

I found an interesting book on the weekend: Flying Corps Headquarters 1914-1918 by Maurice Baring. This is the account of the hq by Baring who was a war correspondent then and took up residence in the HQ and gives a detailed account of the activity there, the campaigns involved and writings on the war. Written in an easy engaging style i found.

any land warfare book by S.L.A. Marshall
any naval book by Samuel Elliot Morison

I like reading historical fiction. I often think that if I could have gotten rich off being a history major, that would have been my field. Which isn't to say I got rich off what I eventually decided upon, but the chances were better.

Right now, I'm reading...



5 books in a row.

Kunal Basu's 'The Japanese Wife' and other short stories are currently on my reading list. It's a collection of short stories, and I've just finished the first one. It tells the story of a Bengali man and a Japanese woman who fall in love, marry, and communicate solely through letters. I simply adored the author's depiction of an extremely complex concept in a very simple and beautiful premise.

Doc Savage, Man of Bronze

Cheers
Jev

I really started to like books related to self-development

I'm finishing Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher. Last week I read Insurgent Mexico by John Reed. I will be starting -when I'm done with Uncle Joe- the Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)

The Fleet Air Arm and the war in Europe 1939-1945 (Hobbs)

Hopefully another winner from Mr Hobbs and Seaforth Publishing.

The King's Peace by CV Wedgwood

About Charles 1 1637-41

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OT @ Warspite - I thought you got your boat back?

altipueri wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 2:13 pm
OT @ Warspite - I thought you got your boat back?

warspite1

Nope the picture has gone sadly. There is probably a way of getting her back (as others tried to explain) but its all too complicated for my small brain to figure out.

warspite1 wrote: Sat Apr 30, 2022 2:48 am

altipueri wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 2:13 pm
OT @ Warspite - I thought you got your boat back?

warspite1

Nope the picture has gone sadly. There is probably a way of getting her back (as others tried to explain) but its all too complicated for my small brain to figure out.

In that same thread you asked I thought one of the mods found it and posted it there for you to download?

Zovs wrote: Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:07 am

warspite1 wrote: Sat Apr 30, 2022 2:48 am

altipueri wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 2:13 pm
OT @ Warspite - I thought you got your boat back?

warspite1

Nope the picture has gone sadly. There is probably a way of getting her back (as others tried to explain) but its all too complicated for my small brain to figure out.

In that same thread you asked I thought one of the mods found it and posted it there for you to download?

warspite1

Hi - yes that's the one. Orm posted the picture in a PM this morning. I took a look at this but it all looks too confusing so I've decided to 'retire' the picture and not have one going forward. I'm very grateful to the people who sought to help me with this though.

A History of Freedom of Thought - by JB Bury.

You can get it free from project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10684

-- A snippet:

"A disinterested love of facts, without any regard to the bearing which those facts may have on one’s hopes or fears or destiny, is a rare quality in all ages, and it had been very rare indeed since the ancient days of Greece and Rome."

I'm reading "Case White - The Invasion of Poland 1939" by Robert Forczyk. It is an interesting book, as it begins with a summary of the story of Poland from XVI Century onwards. This immediately gives better context to the XX Century events. This book also debunks, in the intro, a lot of myths, first among all that "the Polish air force was destroyed on the ground on the first day". Historians ranging from John Keegan to Antony Beevor have considered this a fact for decades, but primary sources show how only 7% of the Polish warplanes was lost on the first day of the war (and some of them while fightning in the air).

I have reached the point when German Generals are ordered to prepare a plan for the invasion. In is a very elegant and absorbing book and I'm happy to have bought it - as I did it in a whim.

I am currently reading Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin.