What are you reading right now?

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Anatomy of the Battleship Scharnhorst.

That sounds awesome!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

That sounds awesome!

Most of Conway's Anatomy series are. Possibly the best of all is Dreadnought, mainly because John Roberts put in enough detailed drawings that you could use it to rebuild the ship if you wanted. He even includes detailed drawings of all the different types of rivets they used.

This is not to put down the others. They vary in detail but even the "worst" ones rate seven out of ten stars, and most are eights or nines.

[Jimbuna]

[Herr-Berbunch]

I'm on the penultimate page of my book about the Middle East, previously mentioned, and then I'm due to start -
The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning

[STEED]

Just started reading this one...

THE ARAB-ISRAELI WARS
War and Peace in the Middle East
By Chaim Herzog

Got a good write up at the time, wanted to get a book on this subject for some time.

[Sailor Steve]

Was looking through some boxes and came across two books I bought many years ago, but hardly ever touched.

One is Republic Of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 1776-1826, compiled by James Morton Smith. It is just what it says - the complete letters they wrote to each other from the Declaration of Independence to Jefferson's death 50 years later, along with an introduction to each period by the editor explaining what was going on at the time. Hardcover, 2075 pages.

The second is James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836, edited by Robert A. Rutland. This is an encyclopedia of the period contained within Madison's lifetime, and is a very handy reference to the people and events of the era. I just now used it to refresh my memory on the reasons why Madison originally opposed adding a Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution, then later reversed himself and not only agreed to putting one in, but wrote most of it himself. Hardcover, 505 pages.