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Book I'm reading now- The Caine Mutiny


Favorite book from the past few years... Halsey's Typhoon. Great book, soon I'd like to follow it up with Sea Cobra.

Rubicon by Tom Holland describing the fall of the Roman Republic....well written, almost flows like a novel, stuffed with larger than life characters.

Reading now: The Lttle Giants...U.S. Escort Carriers against Japan by William T. Y'Blood

Favorite last few years: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy of course...I have read it at least once a year for the past 35 years.....

Right now, The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay

Favourite I'd have to say is a toss up between Stalingrad by Beevor and Goose Green by Mark Adkin

Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell.

Punk Reaper, I just finished Rubicon for the second time last night. An outstanding book. It would make an excellent movie. I guess that is why the HBO series Rome was so popular. With the release of EU: Rome, I am in a Roman mood, so I think I will read some of Plutarch's Lives now.

Reading now-Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collin. I'm jealous of sabre1. Finished the Sharpe series last year. The best !!!! I have all of the Aubrey/Maturin novels, but I'm trying to save them for a retirement project. A few more years to wait.

Right now:

- Robin Young's "Brethren: An Epic Adventure of the Knights Templar", the first part of a trilogy. I just hit the first 10 pages tough. The german translation of course
- Frank Schätzing's "Tod und Teufel", almost through ...

on the shelf and about to be read:

- Jon Glanfield's "The Devil's Chariots: The Birth and Secret Battles of the First Tanks"

Writing more than reading right now here.
Working on a novel set around WW1. I plan to follow three different story lines.
- First will be a RN ship and crew, The HMS Galatea.
- Second will be a group of German Naval graduates from Flensburg. One goes to the SMS Dresden.
- And lastly, an Austrian gun crew.
Right now, I am building up to killing off my second Austrian Prince.
 
Regards, Mike

Hitler's generals, slowly and the second world war by John Keagan. I also have rise and fall of the third reich, but that book is so big and my time with my real life and computer gaming makes that one limited at the time, but I really, really want to read that one

ORIGINAL: Punk Reaper

Rubicon by Tom Holland describing the fall of the Roman Republic....well written, almost flows like a novel, stuffed with larger than life characters.

His "Persian Fire" is very good as well.

Try any of Simon Scarrow's "Eagle " series if you like Roman stuff.Just finished readind the Markham of the Marines series by Tom Connery.
 

A Bridge to Far by Cornelius Ryan

Then it's Soul Music by Terry Pratchett.. DEATHS Granddaughter turns 16 and discovers Music with Rocks in it [X(]

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Cheers

Jev

ORIGINAL: Jevhaddah

A Bridge to Far by Cornelius Ryan

Great book.

Blitzkrieg Myth, Mosier

Not so great book, but interesting and unintentionally humorous.

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Jason D. Mark: Island of Fire - battle for Barricades in Stalingrad - outstanding book on the subject of day to day fighting in Stalingrad Red Factory district with status reports, casualties lists etc...tons of maps including day by day changes to the front as well as one big map with each building have # so that the reader can follow what happened where and when. Perfect for people interested reading about Stalingrad on tactical level, wargamers who play say Steel Panthers, Close Combat, Combat Mission type of wargames...and of course ASL. One of the best mility books I have ever red in my life. The cool thing about this book is that there is a lot of raw detail, so it's really up to the reader make his own conclusions...you are not reading somebody else's opinion on what happened, Jason D. Mark gives you all you need to make your own conclusions - this is the kind of books I love to read!

You can find the book here, there is also soft cover edition:

http://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Barri ... 068&sr=8-1

Here is the Publisher's website, to see some sample pages:

http://www.leapinghorseman.com/proddeta ... 7631&cat=5

You guys certainly read my kind of books.

His "Persian Fire" is very good as well.

Another excellent book really brings the period alive, even found sand between the pages.

Try any of Simon Scarrow's "Eagle "

A fun series very remenisent of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series

Aubrey/Maturin novels

The best naval series of the napoleonic period by a long way......hurry up and retire

Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collin

Just bought this book, looking forward to reading this

A Bridge too Far was also a great but a real heavyweight. The Rise and fall of the Third Reich was the first book I read on the WWll and altough its a big book its a pretty quick and easy read.

Rincewind the Wizzard by Terry Pratchett. I just felt like something amusing. [:)]

Lost Victories - E. v.Manstein.