What you reading?
Just finishing 'Falklands Commando' by Hugh McManners which is very good. Basically its the recollections of a forward artillery observer in the Falklands.
Next on the list is 'Savage Wilderness' which is a novel set in the French and Indian War.
I'm reading "Dunkirk" by Julian Thompson, although I dipped into Saul David's "The Zulu War" the other night and may just read that first.
I'm just about to start reading (if i get the time too)
A pioneer gentlewoman in British Columbia, the recollections of Susan Allison......... :hmm:
I only look at pretty pictures.
Then onto something about the Donner party eh?
Then onto something about the Donner party eh?
No thank you, we're having bacon pancakes instead.
More of the usual with me: Matthews' "Hist! The Smugglers Are Out", Holmes' "The Lawless Coast" (very good read - easily convertable to a game scenario). Next up is Thomas' "Last Invasion, Fishgaurd 1797" and when it arrives Oppenheim's "The Fragile Forts: The Fixed Defences of Sydney Harbour1788 - 1963".
Adam Zamoyski, The Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Concert of Vienna.
Well written, insightful, highly entertaining.
Evelyn Waugh's 'Scoop'
Riley-Smith 'The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading'.
Yesterday's Guardian
Simon Scarrow.
I hadn't heard of him 6 weeks ago but a friend gave me a head's up.
Unfortunately I began with his last (?) book on the Parthians. Well written.
Then I moved to his earlier books which are not so taut & suffer in comparison.
The man had some learning curve.
donald
Weird I like the early romans more, maybe because I like the setting better.
You should try his one's about Nappy/Welly they are excellent.
Just finished Peter Dunns "The First Indochina War" (OOP) - an obscure book on the British involvment in Vietnam in 1945-46. Some most interesting observations in there, for those of us interested in the more obscure aspects of the war & some cracking ideas for a scenario; does the idea of Gurkhas making a Kukri charge supported by Japanese against Viet Minh holding a "Beau Geste" style fort, also supported by Japanese appeal to anyone? (Rich B - it will be for you when I get organised!)
In the middle of Adam Zamoyski's "Warsaw 1920 - Lenins Failed Conquest of Europe." (Harper Press 2008. ISBN 978-0-00-725786-7) at the moment, a good read as I'd expect from such a talented author but I must confess to a slight feeling of disappointment. Its a good deal shorter than his other books that I've read (160 pages cover to cover) & I get the feeling that there's a lot of research that he's done that hasn't ended up in the final work. It covers the political machinations leading up to the war quite well & the links with the broader Russian conflicts of the time.
It's still an excellent primer on a nowadays reasonably obscure subject & one that's piqued my interest now. Peter Pig do many of the requiste figures in 15mm; so if only I can find suitable Polish troops.......
Re: What you reading?
Just finishing 'Falklands Commando' by Hugh McManners which is very good. Basically its the recollections of a forward artillery observer in the Falklands.
Next on the list is 'Savage Wilderness' which is a novel set in the French and Indian War.
Again? And that would be by Harold Coyle, yes Eccles? Good book.
Just finished 'Shattered Sword', on the defeat of the Japanese in WWII.
Next is the latest in the 'Horus Heresy' series.