What are you reading right now?

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Mine was much cheaper than that, less than half. I wish it'd gone for that though!

I got this one...

The German Fleet at War 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by Vincent P. O'Hara

and take a look at the last one on the list...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-lis...condition=used

The book world has gone mad.

[0rpheus]

Originally Posted by sharkbit

You'll want O'Kanes "Clear the Bridge" after that.

I've been looking out for that one but it seems harder to get hold of, at least at a reasonable price. Will keep checking though

[Jimbuna]

I'm currently going through U-bootwaffe 1939 - 1945 Waldermar Trojca (four volumes).

Mine are in e-book format but I can thoroughly recommend the set/series to anyone lucky enough to come across them.....a mine of information and photographs/the dogs danglies.

[Sepp von Ch.]

Zlovestné oceány 2 - Ponorková válka 1914-1915 (czech book)




Very good reading

[kranz]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I'm currently going through U-bootwaffe 1939 - 1945 Waldermar Trojca (four volumes).

Mine are in e-book format but I can thoroughly recommend the set/series to anyone lucky enough to come across them.....a mine of information and photographs/the dogs danglies.

a proud owner of the whole, paperback set
(bought them as new, before they reached "ridiculous prices")

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Niki demonstrated the point perfectly.

these Confederates cannot be trusted...<aims at Niki's gray back>

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I've not noticed anything wrong with your English.

Like 99% of Poles who speak English I have problems with 2 things: articles and the Present Perfect tense. No doubt, every time I ask any of my 'students' (I occasionally give 'private lessons'): tell me what you know about the Present Perfect, I get the same answer all the time: it's a past tense

[Herr-Berbunch]

Now I don't understand a word you just said. I just speak it - the rest comes automatically. Probably why we Brits are so bad at other languages.

[kranz]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Now I don't understand a word you just said. I just speak it - the rest comes automatically.

in a nutshell:
a Polish speaker:
My hands are clean. I washed them.
My hands are clean. I washed them yesterday.

a native speaker:
My hands are clean. I have washed them.
My hands are clean. I washed them yesterday.

There are only 3 tenses in the Polish language: the present, the past and the future tense.
No matter if any past action has its consequences in the present, a Polish speaker will always use the past tense (following his native patterns) Unless he knows the difference between the Past Simple and the Present Perfect. But it takes time and practice. I know that for natives it's an automatic reaction but it doesn't work that way for non-natives.
Got it?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kranz

in a nutshell:
a Polish speaker:
My hands are clean. I washed them.
My hands are clean. I washed them yesterday.

a native speaker:
My hands are clean. I have washed them.
My hands are clean. I washed them yesterday.

There are only 3 tenses in the Polish language: the present, the past and the future tense.
No matter if any past action has its consequences in the present, a Polish speaker will always use the past tense (following his native patterns) Unless he knows the difference between the Past Simple and the Present Perfect. But it takes time and practice. I know that for natives it's an automatic reaction but it doesn't work that way for non-natives.
Got it?

I know what you mean, an old female friend of mine once worked for a dentist, he was highly educated yet would often explain what he called the 'shortcomings' of the Polish language when spoken in the English context.

As a point of interest...he led the Poles at Cassino (a company strength unit IIRC).

[Subnuts]

Found a copy of this book at a local hobby shop and almost jumped for joy.



I used to check it out from the local library all the time when I was a pre-teen. It's from 1987, so it's dated like a bitch, but 80s War Porn is the best War Porn!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

Found a copy of this book at a local hobby shop and almost jumped for joy.



I used to check it out from the local library all the time when I was a pre-teen. It's from 1987, so it's dated like a bitch, but 80s War Porn is the best War Porn!

I thought that looked familiar....part of my book collection

[Sailor Steve]

Just picked up Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind The Legend, by Ted P. Yeatman.

Anyone who has read my dozens of posts from my homeless years knows that I love a properly written biography more than just about anything else. This book is one of those. It was published in 2001, but I had never heard of it until today. Like another favorite, Casey Teffertiller's similarly titled Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind The Legend, Frank and Jesse James covers every known aspect of the legendary outlaws' lives, and comes with copious endnotes to back it all up. Each incident is annotated with newspaper accounts from several sources, diaries, court records and recorded eyewitness accounts. Nothing is taken for granted, and all the opinions from 'Brutal murderers' to 'Modern Robin Hoods' are examined carefully. I've only read the preface and the first chapter so far, so I can't give a full opinion until I've finished it. At the rate I'm going that should only be a few days. So far it's a good'un!

[Herr-Berbunch]

Rowland Whites brilliant Storm Front, about (mostly) RAF and SAS adventures in Dhofar (Oman) in the early '70s.

Rowland White is fast becoming my favourite author. This, Phoenix Squadron, and Vulcan 607 I give a hearty 10/10.

[Jimbuna]

Wings of the Malvinas by Santiago Rivas.

A fascinating and well detailed book with 400 pages packed with information/orders of battle of both sides and many previously unpublished pictures.

This book tells the story from the Argentinian side and even though I'm only a quarter the way through it I have changed one or two opinions I used to have.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wings-Malvin.../dp/1902109228

[Halgarre]

I just picked up a copy of Black May by Michael Gannon. My wife was beginning to wonder when I was going to start a library being I was slowly turning my desk into a "Mini U-Boat" as she likes to call it.

[Sailor Steve]

Western Philosophy, edited by David Papineau. It's a general primer on the subject. I got it on sale at Barnes & Noble, figuring that I'm never going to have the time to read everything I want to.