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06-02-12, 02:19 PM | #946 | |
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I can't seem to settle on any book for more than a few hours just now. I think all the long, sunny evenings are having a detrimental effect.....I have Melvin's biography of Manstein sitting here on the desk beside me. I might give that a bash. Also have a biography of Drusus the Elder that I just can't seem to get around to reading. |
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06-04-12, 07:35 PM | #947 |
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I finished reading Moby Dick all the way through. God knows how I managed that without any alcohol.
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06-06-12, 02:52 AM | #948 |
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06-06-12, 07:24 AM | #949 |
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06-06-12, 10:53 AM | #950 |
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I just finished The Sea Witch by Stephen Coonts.
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06-06-12, 04:51 PM | #951 | |
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Well done to you now get yourself a nice frosty beer.
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06-14-12, 11:28 AM | #952 |
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My brand-new copy of Norman Friedman's British Destroyers: From The Earliest Days to the Second World War just arrived. A great companion to David Lyons' The First Destroyers, this book gives a detailed account of the development of the destroyers of all nations starting in 1885, and stops just before the onset of World War 2. It has production details and statistics for every British destroyer class, including the ones that were seized while being built for foreign nations, and the larger destroyer leaders and cruisers built to lead destroyers. Full details on armor and armament, every weight and speed detail imaginable.
I only have two complaints so far: 1. He doesn't give hull-plate thicknesses (Lyons had a couple of these). 2. He doesn't give tactical diameters, at least not in the charts. They may be included in the text and I just haven't found them yet. Many are available through other sources, but I was hoping for all of them in one place. What a wuss. I read it when I was ten.
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06-16-12, 06:38 AM | #953 |
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My order arrived yesterday from the Osprey Campaign Series: Demyansk 1942-43 The Frozen Fortress. The Luftwaffe got it right here because they could supple the pocket unlike the bigger one at Stalingrad.
Don't buy many of these books but this one caught my eye.
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06-20-12, 09:03 PM | #954 |
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Well I just opened the 1st book I've read for fun in a long while...
I'm reading Redshirts by John Scalzi. Possably the only book I know of with its own ... |
06-22-12, 02:42 PM | #955 |
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Reading The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway by John B. Lundstrom. Got it at Christmas but haven't mad much of a chance to delve into it before now. Very good it is too.
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07-10-12, 12:30 PM | #956 |
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I just picked up a copy of Norman Friedman's Naval Weapons of World War One. It's a great companion piece to John Campbell's Naval Weapons of World War Two. Campbell was collecting data for the new volume when he died. His sister kindly handed over all his notes to Friedman, who then did a lot of his own research.
The book is laid out differently from Campbell's. The WW2 book is organized by Nation, then subdivided by type of weapon: Guns, Torpedoes, ASW. Friedman's book is divided by weapon type, then subdivided by nation: British Guns, American Guns, German Guns etc. That said, it is every bit as good as Campbell's work, if a bit smaller. Friedman also has lengthy chapters on weapons development in general, plus individual articles for each country's work in the field. It's a gem, and I'm glad to have a new reference work for my naval game.
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07-10-12, 03:32 PM | #957 | |
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07-20-12, 08:51 AM | #958 |
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U-Boats against Canada by M. Hadley. Very good book.
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07-20-12, 11:37 AM | #959 |
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V.Suvorov -Defeat. A great analysis - as always.
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07-25-12, 05:53 PM | #960 |
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I am farther along in my Clancy book adventure than last time i posted.
I believe that last time i posted, i was reading The Sum Of All Fears. That was over a year ago. I am now reading The Teeth of The Tiger. In about 60 pages, I will be reading Dead Or Alive.
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