The Kama Sutra doesn't count.

This month I have mostly been reading... In the Clouds Above Baghdad, by J.E. Tennant - A memoire of RFC operations in Mesopotamia in WW1. Very hairy. On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, by Norman Dixon - Now at least I can understand why I never win any games. Gunboat!, by Bryan Perrett - A short history of gunboat operations from the Crimea to Vietnam. Also probably the only book I have with an exclamation mark in the title. Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, by L.J. Hall - All about... err... inland water transport in Mesopotamia. Actually quite fascinating. With the M.T. in Mesopotamia, by F.W. Leland - M.T. stands for Mechanical Transport. Much like the previous book only on land. Also fascinating. Loads of Ospreys as well.

Aces Falling by Peter Hart, the first man I've seen who swears like Gordon Ramsay while giving a talk to a branch of the Western Front Association.

Re-reading George Nafziger's Imperial Bayonets: The Tactics of the Napoleonic Battery, Battalion, and Brigade as Found in Contemporary Regulations; Greenhill, 1996.

This week it is Mephisto: A7V Sturmpanzerwagen 506 by Mark Whitmore and then next is Sheerness Dockyard and Fort: The Early Years by David Hughes Mephisto is only a short book, but really is an interesting read.

Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson. Just finished the new David Weber Honorverse book, looking for something on Assyrians or Israel during their wars with the same, and yes I already went through all the bible verses again.

Being on a WW1 Italian front kick recently, I've been re-reading Mark Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War (one of my very favorite novels) and have just ordered The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson.

Well. Finished "Dresden 1945", just got to write up 20 pages of notes now. Started on "Der U-Boot Krieg 1939-1945" by Peter Padfield. Allready found a mistake. He has a series of photographs supposedly of Käleunt Lemps U-110. (a type IXB.) But the photos are a type VII! I have seen these photos HUNDREDS of times as those of U-110 being captured. It is the first time I realised that U-110 is NOT a type VII. Letter on the way to the Imperial war museum, in whoes collection they are.

French Army During the Great War (Vol2: 1915 to victory) By Andre Jouineau from Histoire & Collections Paperback, 66 pages about the same size as an Osprey. Just marvellous, over 50 pages of colour uniform illustrations (about 5 to a page), with side notes on collar tabs, regimental numbers, webing, weapons, regulation changes, etc, etc. Covers all aspects and branches of service - Line Infantry, Reserves, light infantry, Alpine, various cavalry formations, artillery, Legion, Chasseurs de chars (tanks), Army of Africa (Zouves, Spahis, Traillieur, La Colonial), even the navy! Simply stunning, and unlike many books from this excellent publisher (H&C) its in English! I feel and article on 1917-18 French infantry organisations coming on, I may even be forced to buy a few new French figures.

A couple of old WSS mags I bought at Salute and Fusiliers by Mark Urban

Dipping into bits of Oman's History of the Peninsular War and Ospreys for French Cavalry info.

Replenished by a book sale "Garibaldi and the Thousand (May 1860)" by George Macaulay Trevelyan "Anzio" by Lloyd Clark "A Rumour Of War" Philip Caputo...another book that claims to be the best book about the Vietnam conflict

A friend visited today and left the following books: Long, Obstinate and Bloody. The Battle of Guilford Courthouse. By Babits and Howard. Redcoats on the River. Southeastern North Carolina in the Rev. War. By Dunkerly. With Zeal and with Bayonets Only. 1775-1783. By Spring. The Revolutionary War in the Southern Back Country. By Swisher. John

Flitting between the following: - the Perries' Carlist Wars sourcebook. - "Diamonds, Gold and War" by Martin Meridith - a history of South Africa up to the end of the second Boer War. - "The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War" by Edward Brett. - "The Polish Officer" by Alan Furst - a cracking WW2 spy/resistance novel.