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Old 07-06-16, 08:15 AM   #1666
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Battle Atlas of the Falklands War 1982 by Land, Sea and Air

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Old 07-10-16, 10:25 AM   #1667
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Just finished reading Haynes' newest "workshop manual" on the HMS Dreadnought, and it's terribly mediocre. They've done some pretty darn good naval titles in the past, but this one is too superficial to be a useful reference. Lots of excellent illustrations, and some interesting period documents, but they've tried to cram way too much into 156 pages. The sections on fire control, armor protection, and ship design and especially disappointing. It's better than their U-boat manual from 2014, but that's not saying a whole lot.
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Old 08-11-16, 07:51 PM   #1668
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Thats an easy one.

''Business In Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945''. John Terraine, Pen & Sword Books, South Yorkshire, UK , 1989.

As a bit of a plug for Pen & Sword, I discovered some years ago that this was a rather decent literary clearinghouse for no end of military history from The RAF in North Africa, to the Somme, Midway and Trafalgar, and even accepts submissions from writers in this genre.
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Old 08-21-16, 06:53 PM   #1669
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Should be getting my copy of this bad boy tomorrow:
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Old 10-04-16, 05:23 PM   #1670
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Just started reading "The Trident Deception" by Rick Campbell as part of FPSChazlys book club

And I just got to Chapter 12 in "Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines" by Norman Polmar K.J. Moore. Great read!
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Old 10-05-16, 08:53 PM   #1671
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone.

Three plays by Sophocles, translated into English by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, published in 1948.
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Old 10-06-16, 04:14 PM   #1672
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Finished "The Star Rover" by Jack London
Started "The Agony and the Ecstasy" by Irving Stone
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Old 10-16-16, 08:10 PM   #1673
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Not reading any books cover to cover right now, but I've been spending some times with some excellent reference books I've purchased lately. Namely, Eberhard Rossler's The U-Boat: The Evolution and Technical History of German Submarines, John Campbell's Naval Weapons of World War Two, and Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Naval reference books from the 70s and 80s are the best. They're all jammed with detailed diagrams, specifications, and statistics, obscure historical details, rare photographs, and details of prototypes and paper designs. The sheer number of Type XXI offshoots and unbuilt close-cycle designs covered in The U-Boat, for example, is pretty mindblowing.

I'm not saying that good naval reference books aren't published any more (Seaforth has been getting on my good side these last couple years), but you can totally get lost in the classics.
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Old 10-26-16, 05:32 PM   #1674
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The Tin Cravat, by Jack D. Hunter - the third and last book in the Bruno Stachel trilogy.
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Old 10-26-16, 07:52 PM   #1675
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone.

Three plays by Sophocles, translated into English by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, published in 1948.
Jeeze! All that'd give me a complex.
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Old 10-27-16, 07:14 AM   #1676
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Well, seeing as how Jimmy Five Bellies is a neighbour of mine, I thought it time to find out just how many of his stories are true.

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Old 11-01-16, 09:31 PM   #1677
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Knight of Germany: Oswald Boelcke, German Ace.

The letters of Oswald Boelcke to his parents, from 1911 to 1916, compiled, edited, and with commentary by Professor Johannes Werner, English translation by Claude W. Sykes, 2009 edition
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'Lost Victories - Erich von Manstein'

Info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlorene_Siege

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http://server2.docfoc.com/uploads/Z2...ec43c4727d.pdf

'Infanterie Greift An - Erwin Rommel'

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanterie_Greift_An

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http://www.thechristianidentityforum...ds/Attacks.pdf

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Old 11-27-16, 03:01 AM   #1679
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Been reading the The Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 7.2 (The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C.)

It covers a good number of subjects by various writers; Political, religious, administrative etc.
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Been taking a bit of a break from naval history lately. Almost finished with "In The Company of Crows and Ravens" by John Marzluff, and I've just started on Haynes' RAF V-Force "Operations Manual." I should be getting my copy of Norman Friedman's newest table-shaker "Fighters Over the Fleet" today.

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