What you reading?

ps. on topic this time, I am currently reading through 1912-13 which is the personal account of a fellow who fought in those wars and who went on to become a rather famous author over here. I presume this is in Greek, or is there an English translatiom available??

I don't know if an English translation exists mate. As this bloke became an academic it was published by the Academy of Athens so it might have. Will ask on Monday and get back to you. I didn't know you had an interest in the period. Do you wargame it? Thanks Theo! I'll game just about anything, but am looking at gaming parts of the Balkan Wars as a possible next project.

Just picked up Azincourt by Bernard Cornwall, didn't think it was out for another 2 weeks.

Leggiere, Michael V., The Fall of Napoleon: The Allied Invasion of France 1813-1814. A modern update and counterpoint to F.L. Petre's legendary Napoleon at Bay, which tended to 'forgive' Boney for all his errors, and blame the Marshalls, Fouché, etc. for all the Emperor's misjudgements.

That was on my 'wants' list (number 4,867 I think). Is it good?

"Panzer Meyer. Grenadiere" By Panzer Meyer. Then "Mein Leben", in two volumes, Groß Admiral Raeder.

Hitler's U Boat War by Clay Blair. I'm about 1/3 into the second book.

That was on my 'wants' list (number 4,867 I think). Is it good? Sorry LT, only Chapter 6 . . . So far, Leggiere seems to like to describe the geography of France and the Rhine frontier in almost Nafziger-like detail ( :grr: ) in the early going. When he gets into analysis, though, it's fairly well reasoned, if somewhat American style in terms of 'delivery'. Otherwise, I'm hoping it picks up a bit as I go further.

Thanks - be interested to see what you think when you've finished it, I'm getting torn between a 1814 set-up (all wintery and blaek) or a Ligny set-up (all sun-kissed wheatfields) and a few good books always tip the balance.

Like Big Dave I've just bought the Bernard Cornwell's "Azincourt". Cornwell is one of the handful of novelists whose latest books I always read as soon as they are out , the others being Alan Mallinson, Jack Higgins (yes his latest books are all crap but I can't help myself), Julian Stockwin and Michael Frayn.

Don't forget Jilly Cooper... I've just finished Con Thien by James Coan. It's about the USMC operations in and around the Con Thien outpost and the DMZ in Vietnam. It's rather good, mainly down to the fact that Coan is a veteran and saw a lot of this with his own eyeballs. Just started reading A Sergeant-Major's War by Ernest Shephard. Basically a WW1 Western Front diary. Very sobering.

I've barely read two chapters, I usually read at work but due to actally having todo some work yesterday I only got 3 lines read!!! :grr:

Mine's coming on the slow boat from Amazon so I won't be able to start until next week. But Cornwell's pretty fast to read I find.

Lions, Donkeys, & Dinosaurs, by Lewis Page. Absolutley jaw-dropping critique of defence spending and procurement scandals in the MOD. Can't recommend this highly enough; seriously, you have to read it. You'll be quoting it & arguing over it for weeks. It's entertainingly irreverent, too... be laugh-out-loud funny if it wasn't true.

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