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I just finished a great book by Ted Cunterblast: The West Indies, A Nation of Cricketers.

Warspite, you will love this book.

ORIGINAL: parusski

I just finished a great book by Ted Cunterblast: The West Indies, A Nation of Cricketers.

Warspite, you will love this book.

warspite1

Maybe, but at the moment I am fully 100% concentrated on WWI. Almost finished Castles of Steel - FANTASTIC BOOK! Afterwards I have A Naval History of World War I just waiting for me [:)]

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ORIGINAL: parusski

I just finished a great book by Ted Cunterblast: The West Indies, A Nation of Cricketers.

Warspite, you will love this book.

warspite1

Maybe, but at the moment I am fully 100% concentrated on WWI. Almost finished Castles of Steel - FANTASTIC BOOK! Afterwards I have A Naval History of World War I just waiting for me [:)]

Ahhhhh. Castles of Steel.

America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony C. Sutton

Would you believe...

Hypnotic Seduction by Laurie Kellogg

Trashy e-book romance picked up for free on Amazon

I'm currently on my yearly vigil of reading Lord of the Rings. I've read it once a year since 1983.

My brother claims to have read LOTR 40+ times.

Me? I fell asleep at p. 40 of The Hobbit. [>:]

I stayed awake through the movies, however. [:)]

I am reading:

Famous Jewish Sports Legends, by Clarence Oveur

ORIGINAL: parusski

I am reading:

Famous Jewish Sports Legends, by Clarence Oveur

Sandy Koufax, a boyhood idol. As a left-handed pitcher, I patterned my right-leg-raised-high delivery after Koufax's. Until one day, in game, I raised my right leg so high, I split my jeans at the butt seam, then threw the ball over the backstop in my embarrassment. [X(]

There were woods behind the backstop. I don't think they ever did find that lost ball.

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ORIGINAL: parusski

I am reading:

Famous Jewish Sports Legends, by Clarence Oveur

Sandy Koufax, a boyhood idol. As a left-handed pitcher, I patterned my right-leg-raised-high delivery after Koufax's. Until one day, in game, I raised my right leg so high, I split my jeans at the butt seam, then threw the ball over the backstop in my embarrassment. [X(]

There were woods behind the backstop. I don't think they ever did find that lost ball.

I understand Mc'Collegue. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

I am halfway through Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, by Harald Welzer and Jefferson Chase.

This book is an interesting sociological and psychological analysis of secretly recorded conversations between POW's held in both the USA and Great Britain during World War 2. The authors reconstruct what they call the prisoner's "frame of reference". This is not a historical look at the historical facts but the perception of the facts by the German military. The prisoner's for the most part do not refer to "people" and "killed", instead they refer to "targets" and "results". But some do speak more bluntly:

"Bruns: When I arrived those pits were so full that the living had to lie down on top of the dead; then they were shot and, in order to save room, they had to lie down neatly in layers. Before this, however, they were stripped of everything at one of the stations—here at the edge of the wood were the three pits they used that Sunday and here they stood in a queue 1½ km long which approached step by step—a queuing up for death. As they drew nearer they saw what was going on. About here they had to hand over their jewelry and suitcases. All good stuff was put into the suitcases and the remainder thrown on a heap. This was to serve as clothing for our suffering population—and then, a little further on they had to undress and, 500 m in front of the wood, strip completely; they were only permitted to keep on a chemise or knickers. They were all women and small two-year-old children. Then all those cynical remarks! If only I had seen those tommy-gunners, who were relieved every hour because of over-exertion, carry out their task with distaste, but no, nasty remarks like: “Here comes a Jewish beauty!” I can still see it all in my memory: A pretty woman in a flame-colored chemise. Talk about keeping the race pure: at Riga they first slept with them and then shot them to prevent them from talking."

There is not as many exerpts from the 100,000 pages of transcripts, but that is okay with me. I have never read anything that delves so deeply into the thoughts of the German military man.

The Neustettin Massacre committed by the Red army;

Hideous Allied War Crimes
During And After WWII
http://rense.com/general39/allied.htm

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I'm currently on my yearly vigil of reading Lord of the Rings. I've read it once a year since 1983.

Roughly the same time I first read it..I had to ahem shoplift a book at a time..I was only 11 or 12 at the time!

Clay Blair's The U-boat War-Volume 1: The Hunters, 1939-1942. So far so good...

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Clay Blair's The U-boat War-Volume 1: The Hunters, 1939-1942. So far so good...

I read that book years ago. I had forgotten about it.


Hey wodin, I was about 11 when I "borrowed" Lord Foul's Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever from a book store. It was the first serious book I read.

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I'm currently on my yearly vigil of reading Lord of the Rings. I've read it once a year since 1983.

I see your 'LOTR' and raise you, 'Narn I Chin Hurin' and 'Quenta Silmarilion'.

Finished Bloody Triangle and have started James Mcphersons "War on the Water The union and confederate navies 1861-1865
Well written and very readable,but what would you expect from Mcpherson.

I am reading Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale. So far it is a great read.


http://www.amazon.com/Ivans-War-Life-De ... 312426526/

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I am reading Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale. So far it is a great read.


http://www.amazon.com/Ivans-War-Life-De ... 312426526/

I enjoyed that book.

Last two chapters of Castles of Steel