Finished reading Nicholas Jellicoe's Jutland: The Unfinished Battle. You can read my review HERE. Now I'm going to start John Campbell's Jutland: An Analysis of the Fighting, which has been sitting on my shelf for five years, intimidating the hell out of me.

No need to be intimidated. It's a fun read.

Or maybe I'm just crazy. :dead:

Picked up a couple of cheap campaign books to start reading today..

TSUSHIMA 1905 - Death of a Russian Fleet

BLANC MONT RIDGE 1918 - America's forgotten victory

FORGIVE US, WOLVES: A German Soldier at the Russian Front by
Klaus Kronenberg

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Started to read...

Achtung-Panzer
Major General Heinz Guderian

His first book on the development of armoured forces he wrote a few years before WW2.

I haven't been reading, so much as taking in, British Naval Weapons of World War Two: Destroyer Weapons. The book features ~45 sets of plans by the late great John Lambert of guns and mountings of 4.7 inches and below, fire control devices, torpedo tubes, and minesweeping gear. No anti-submarine weapons, but apparently those will be in the companion book on escort weapons coming out in August. The level of detail is frequently insane; for example, there are six sheets of plans of the 4in QF MK V series, with sectional views of the recuperator, elevation and training gear, sights, recoil cylinder, breech, base plate rollers, firing gear, etc.



I also finished reading Dennis R Jenkins' new book on the F-105 Thunderchief. You can read my review here: https://www.amazon.com/review/R1VZV7...p_perm?ie=UTF8

Now reading..

U.S. SUBS DOWN UNDER BRISBANE, 1942-1945

By David Jones and Peter Nunan


Those S-Class subs did a lot in the early part of the war.

Just to toot my horn a little bit, here's the last two naval books I've reviewed:


German Battleship Helgoland Detailed in the Original Builder's Plans


British Naval Weapons of World War Two - Volume One - Destroyer Weapons

I normally listen to music while working, but yesterday I got the idea of searching itunes for submarine documentaries and was surprised.
Not sure if audio books count here but I've been listening to "Submarine Warfare in World War I" written by Charles River Editors.

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I've been on a bit of a space book binge lately, and I'm currently about half way through the second book in Boris Chertok's (Sergei Korolev's deputy) four volume Rockets and People series. It's quite fascinating but does require some patience. There's a reason, I suppose, why you never hear about the great Russian editors.

My last three space book reviews:
Picturing Apollo 11
The Soviet Space Program: The Lunar Mission Years: 1959–1976
Apollo to the Moon: A History in 50 Objects

U-Boat operations of WW2 volume 2.

I keep complaining to myself that I'm not reading anything. Back when I was homeless I kept posting here about all the books I was reading at our huge downtown library - on average at least one book every day, sometimes more. And when I got to a big book like the seven-volume work Jefferson the Virginian, I might take two or even three for each volume.

Now? Nothing. After almost a year I still haven't finished reading Herodotus, plus the hundred or more books I got when I worked at the book distributor's warehouse, and that's twenty years ago now.

Then I realized what I have been reading. All the details about the World War I u-boats and other naval warfare. All the books about World War I air combat. Currently? Well, in preparation for the '100 Years' thread I've been reading online the complete Secretaries' notes from the Paris Peace Talks of 1919. I've been complaining that the '100 Years' is killing me. I sometimes spend as much as six hours just reading and rereading, compiling and sorting and editing and finally posting, and I've been doing that much work pretty much every day since the anniversary of Bloody April in 2017.

And while I hate that it's taking away from other things I want to be doing, I also realized that I'm still having fun. I'm truly amazed at how much I enjoy reading the daily notes from the most important meetings with the most important people of that time. How they influenced each other and the rest of the world. How they struggled to be civil when sometimes they thought they had the answers and ended up admitting that the one they disagreed with might be right.

So yeah, I've been reading a lot. It's just not what I planned on reading. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's still good, and it's still enjoyable.

Mostly because of the hype surrounding the new HBO/Sky series, I recently read Adam Higginbotham's new book Midnight in Chernobyl. It's not a perfect book, but it's an exceptionally good read, and does and excellent job explaining why instutional rot, Soviet ideology, and denialism turned Chernobyl from a tragic industrial accident to a traumatic nightmare.


You can read my review here:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R3B9L1...SIN=B07GNV7PNH