griff66 Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 first read book 15 ish years ago now rereading it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharky Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Berlin by Theodor Plievier. the fall of berlin from a personal perspective. and on a lighter side harry hills "flight from deathrow " makes no sense but a great toilet read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 Bought for 20p "Ormeronds Landing" by Leslie Thomas (Virgin Soldiers) about a British Policeman who travels to occupied France with a female SOE Agent to arrest a British soldierwanted for rape/murder. Quite enjoyed it. makes a change for me to read fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford 369 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 just read in the shadow of Arnhem and tank from d to ve day both by Ken Tout ,this was after borrowing and reading in 3 days tanks advance by the same author (I was in Normandy at the time so was seeing the locations daily) and have to say they are all excellent Nigel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugly Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 "WINGLESS VICTORY " Basil Embry.. True story - shot down near St Omer , captured 3 times by the germans and eventually made his way home . Great stuff - read it 5 times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bedford Boys Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 PENTHOUSE :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford 369 Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 PENTHOUSE :whistle: is that the book about military tents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 is that the book about military tents? No that's TENThouse...Jack's secret magazine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) Paperback edition of Bryn Hammond's CAMBRAI 1917. A superb book - lots more to come from this chap. Edited January 22, 2010 by Snapper idiocy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmac Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy By: Antony Beevor. Anyone with an interest in WW2 MUST read his account (I am around half way through), as with his other 'definitive' histories (Stalingrad, Berlin:The Downfall) Normandy is a real page turner. All of the detail is from primary period sources weaving a picture of the Invasion and subsiquent two months is detail from both sides and from meetings with Hitler right down to the doctors dealing with 'fatigue'. It doesn't feel quite as - well I don't know - Berlin was the first one I read and it made me weep at the shear death and stupidity, the blood seem to drip from the pages. Normandy on the other hand is a little more remote, even so, possible the best overview of the Invasion that you will read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 My Christmas presents to myself. Fascinating reading. The trouble is that the one in the red binding seems never to have been read & I am causing the spine to crack. I am reading it by only opening it by 60 degrees, in a similar way one might glance at something in the newsagents hoping your mother doesn't turn around! Even so it is progressively cracking thereby devaluing it. But a book is a book it contains knowledge & not to read it is a denial of its very purpose. Just keeping it solely as an investment seems as repugnant to me as seeing the proud delight of the owner of a child's toy still in a box because it has never been played with, kinda sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Brazen Charriots by Major Robert Crisp, about the war in northern africa 1941 - 1942. Absolutely brilliant so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Lots of interesting stuff, only £1 at today's carboot. Note that it is designated OU 5296 meaning it is in the restricted classification of Official Use. OU was abandoned in 1942 & reclassified in the new BR series (Books of Reference) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Been looking for this classic work, at the right price, for a while now. Worth a read giving an overview of the administration of war from 1066 to 1934. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambo1969 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Just finished james patteron's latest, run for your life, brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robrffr Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Images of war: Sherman tank by Gavin Birch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Bought "Ghost Road" at a jumble sale for 20p. Started reading it a few days ago. Did something today which i normally never do with books and threw it into a bin as i went past. Some books are so bad I am doing the world a service by chucking it away. Even too bad for recycling. Anyway, that still leaves me some cracking books in my to read pile. Next on the pile is "Railway Operating Division" which logically enough concerns the British military standard gauge railways during WW1. It is an A4 hard backed book stuffed full of interesting photos. cant wait to get stuck into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m109a3uk Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Get Eight lives down as well! Yep both good reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Cannibals and kings by Marvin Harris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 George MacDonald Frazer.- The Steel Bonnets- A history of the anglo scottish border reivers. elizabethan gurrilla warfare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnh Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 ANZIO by LLoyd Clark bargain second hand from Whitby bookshop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 "Imperial Reckoning", how the British were mighty naughty to the peace loving , freedom fighting Mau Mau and how the British were almost as bad as the Nazis. I'm getting the imression the writer doesn't like us. Plus a Clive Cussler book, which is top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 well you asked....... working with abused children safeguarding children and young people child maltreatment (theory and research on the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangie Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Hmm, well its IT (Stephen King), for the second time, many years since I read it first time around.......... Current bedside reading also includes salivating over my ZIL-157/157K in Detail book. I love these trucks, I want one badly but finding them in this corner of Europe is like looking for Rocking Horse S##T!! :cry: Alec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schliesser92 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Plan Of Attack, the one about George W Bush and the lead up to the Iraq invasion. I borrowed it, and was astounded how incompetent the US Military actually is (and that was just the "Pentaguys".) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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