Currently Reading

[Spartacus]

Currently reading :-

Kemp: Riders of Fury (Arrows of Albion Book 4)

By Jonathan Lunn

Really enjoyed first 3 books in series.  no typos--brill

Would suggest any one who enjoys HYW period should read the series. A real boy`s own story.

Terry

[Grey Heron]

Mike Blake book on the Mexican Revolution has arrived and so this is now top bill reading.

Cheers,

Helen

[Leslie BT]

I hope you enjoy the book Helen.

[Colonel Kilgore]

I've just finished "In Vietnam", #3 in the Australian Army Campaigns series.

Other than having watched "The Odd Angry Shot" a couple of times, and having seen Big Mike's Long Tan game last year, I knew next to nothing about the Aussie / ANZAC involvement in Vietnam.

This book was excellent - lots of photos, maps and coloured drawings with clear explanations of all the key elements of the campaign and the way it was waged from the Australian perspective.

The difference in strategic approach (a conventional war vs. counter-insurgency) and the principal tactics (noisy heliborne operations accompanied by massive firepower vs. low-tech slow and silent patrolling) of the Americans vs. the Australians is drawn out well too.

Highly recommended!

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

My last book has been Chastise - Max Hastings' retelling and analysis of the Dambusters Raid.

I found the storytelling element quite gripping, and the critique (both moral and military) interesting and well argued.

Simon

[Nick]

Currently on William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" - written back in the sixties. It's very readable even though it is very long (over 1000 pages). I'm enjoying it a lot.

Nick

[Wardy64]

Just starting Stalingrad by Beevor.

Dave

[martin goddard]

I always enjoy Beevor books. Especially for the little stories within the larger one.


martin

[Leman (Andy)]

Better own up I suppose. Just finished Osprey's Balaclava and just started their British army on campaign - the Crimean War. Looking at 6mm here to enable a one base = one unit game -Irregular's blocks with a few individual pieces for battlefield fluff.

Somewhere, in one of my many unpacked boxes of books I have The Charge and also Selby's Thin Red Line that my sister bought for me fifty years ago.

[Colonel Kilgore]

I've just finished working through the Osprey Elite book on the Mexican Revolution.

I found this to be really good, combining history, pictures and descriptions of weapons and other kit. As someone said here previously, it's a great way in to the period. I have Mike Blake's book to read soon, but will first read the final Uhtred instalment, which has been sitting on my desk waiting to be read for a couple of seeks now.

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

I have just finished the final Uhtred book - War Lord, having savoured a few pages each evening.

I found it a cracking read (as ever), with a very satisfying conclusion to the series.

Simon

[martin goddard]

Uthred was excellent I agree Simon


martin

[sjwalker51]

Just started on 'Fighting for Liberty' (Carter) on the Argyll and Monmouth campaigns against James II in 1685. A fascinating time in history and cries out for a 'what if' campaign.

If only an enterprising 15mm manufacturer did a comprehensive range for the period that matched the 28mm ones made by Front Rank and others....

[Nick]

Currently on William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" - written back in the sixties. It's very readable even though it is very long (over 1000 pages). I'm enjoying it a lot.

Nick

Just finished this weekend. That was an engrossing read. Full of contemporary accounts of what the key Nazi party members got up to. More political, and less military, than I would normally read.

Nick

[Spartacus]

Struggling a bit on the last Uhtred, Possibly as I have been too busy on my figures to do much else. But I think the whole series have been stunning reads.

Terry