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10-02-13, 08:41 PM | #1351 |
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Haven't started reading them yet, but I just bought Michael Gannon's Black May and Operation Drumbeat for my Kindle for $0.99 each. I hear Operation Drumbeat's Kindle conversion wasn't very well done, but for the price of a Salvation Army paperback.
I just recently finished Thomas Anderson's new book on the Tiger tank, which finally convinced me to buy a Kindle Fire HD today. The small screen, average screen resolution, and frequently poor photo/map reproduction of the Kindle 3 was starting to grate on my nerves. Tiger contained a number of organizational charts that the Kindle 3 just choked on, and the photos looked like garbage compared to the ones in the hardcover copy i saw at Barnes and Noble. Actually, I've been getting interested in tanks lately and rediscovering my love of aviation of space. Not that I've given up on naval and maritime - I just need a bit of variety from time to time! |
10-03-13, 03:29 AM | #1352 | |
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Your post now has me reconsidering what I should do
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10-05-13, 08:24 AM | #1353 |
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Next few days I shall be starting my next book..
Operation Barbarossa The German Invasion of Soviet Russia By Robert Kirchubel Another Barbarossa book to my Barbarossa collection.
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10-05-13, 02:31 PM | #1354 |
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STEED - have you read Barbarossa by Alan Clark? It's sitting on my bookshelf in the 'still to read' section, I expect to start it by November, maybe I'll finish it by xmas*.
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10-06-13, 05:12 AM | #1355 |
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Good book for its time and yes I do have it, Alan Clark made no changes to his book and once said it will stand or fall on its own merits. His book as you probably seen in the index is the whole war conflict but the largest chapter was on Barbarossa. Took me a couple of weeks to read it as I recall, not too heavy and easy to read.
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10-06-13, 06:21 AM | #1356 |
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10-07-13, 06:45 PM | #1357 |
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Now I can add Gene Kranz to my signature collection!
(It was only $2.99 at the local thrift store.) |
10-08-13, 08:55 AM | #1358 |
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There are some scanning issues, but nothing too major I thought.
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10-10-13, 03:50 PM | #1359 |
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NOTES OF A RUSSIAN SNIPER by Vasilij G. Zajcev
Very interesting book!
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10-10-13, 04:45 PM | #1360 |
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I'm about halfway through Black May right now. It's enjoyable, but not anywhere near as much as Operation Drumbeat. That book really took the reader inside the world of codebreaking, naval intelligence, submarine warfare, planning, sort of like a WWII techno-thriller. Black May is more of a detailed naval history.
If anything, it's hammering home the idea, that I'm starting to hold myself, that the U-boats were incredibly over-rated as weapons of war, and the Germans lost the Battle of the Atlantic by being perpetually two steps behind the technical and tactical curve after mid-1941. The account of the battle of OSN-5 includes so many accounts of U-boats being surprised in the fog at spitball range by radar and HF/DF-equipped escorts, and either getting run over, hedge-hogged, or depth charged, I seriously came close to slapping my forehead. C'mon guys, the Allies have been fighting you for four years, have broken into your codes, are vigorously training their escort commanders, building more ships than you can sink, and equipping their destroyers and frigates with the latest sub-hunting and killing toys. Why are you swamping the ocean with obsolete submarines manned by inexperienced crews on their first patrol? Yeesh. I'm starting to think that Karl Donitz should have a statue alongside Nelson in Trafalgar Square. He saved the British a lot of trouble sending so many of his men to stupid deaths. |
10-11-13, 08:32 AM | #1361 |
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It has been a couple of years since I read Tom Clancy's books.
So I started reading Red Storm Rising. |
10-11-13, 11:47 AM | #1362 |
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Aces High, by Alan Clark. Originally published in 1973. I have the 1999 Barnes & Noble reprint. It's a good overview of the first air war, but a bit one-sided. Manfred von Richtofen was a heartless, cold-blooded killer, while Mick Mannock, who shot down an instructor and five students, was a jolly good fellow. All that said, and with a few historical innacuracies in both text and pictures, it's a quick, fun read, with lots of pictures, many of which I had not seen before.
http://www.amazon.com/Aces-High-Alan.../dp/0760716765
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10-12-13, 01:56 AM | #1363 |
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How good are the books by Osprey Publishing in general? They seem to have a lot of books on subjects which interest me and which I have not found anywhere else.
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10-12-13, 07:55 AM | #1364 |
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Ebook library is nearing its end (naval wise).
I regularly go back to this little beauty...it reminds me of one of the contributions my father took part in during the war:
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10-12-13, 11:14 AM | #1365 |
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Usually they are very good overviews on the subject of the book. Don't expect a wealth of detail, though. If you want to know about X battle or Y piece of equipment they'll let you know what happened in general. Basically a good place to start if you know nothing of the subject at all, very good for the gamers they were designed for.
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