What are you reading right now?

[Sockeye]

Clausewitz via Graham: On War.

[Aktungbby]

This caught my attention: the story of an American, John C Robinson, who headed the Ethiopian Airforce against the Italians under Mussolini..."Across black America during the Golden Age of Aviation, John C. Robinson was widely acclaimed as the long-awaited “black Lindbergh.” Robinson’s fame, which rivaled that of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, came primarily from his wartime role as the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force after Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. As the only African American who served during the war’s entirety, the Mississippi-born Robinson garnered widespread recognition, sparking an interest in aviation for young black men and women.

Known as the “Brown Condor of Ethiopia,” he provided a symbolic moral example to an entire generation of African Americans. While white America remained isolationist, Robinson fought on his own initiative against the march of fascism to protect Africa’s only independent black nation. Robinson’s wartime role in Ethiopia made him America’s foremost black aviator.

Robinson made other important contributions that predated the Italo-Ethiopian War. After graduating from Tuskegee Institute, Robinson led the way in breaking racial barriers in Chicago, becoming the first black student and teacher at one of the most prestigious aeronautical schools in the United States, the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical School. In May 1934, Robinson first planted the seed for the establishment of an aviation school at Tuskegee Institute. While Robinson’s involvement with Tuskegee was only a small part of his overall contribution to opening the door for blacks in aviation, the success of the Tuskegee Airmen—the first African American military aviators in the U.S. armed forces—is one of the most recognized achievements in twentieth-century African American history." Slightly ahead of the Lincoln Brigade and the Flying Tigers you might say...what a surprise!

[ReallyDedPoet]

Looking forward to getting this:

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[musashi]

Hi

Subs are always big interest for me (models , sim etc...) since 688 subattack on Megadrive

I 'm 1/700 french model builder too (OKB Grigorov , Polar Bear,Ralph Ratcliff etc etc)

This is my book this week



best regards

[ReallyDedPoet]

Welcome to SUBSIM musashi

[Jimbuna]

I'd love to see an English version of that book.

Welcome to Subsim musacshi

[Aktungbby]

musashi!

[Sepp von Ch.]

For this week

[Jimbuna]

[STEED]

The Birth of the Nazis - How the Freikorps blazed a trail for Hitler

Nigel Jones

[Sepp von Ch.]

I read now my 2 new books:



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[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

The Birth of the Nazis - How the Freikorps blazed a trail for Hitler

Nigel Jones

That is one book I couldn't come to grips with

[Friscobay]

Mixed Bag, all nautical.

These include, in no order,


''Attack and Sink:The Battle of the Atlantic Summer 1941'' Bernard Edwards. Brick Tower Press. ( great slim volume on the epic fight between SC42 and the MARKGRAF Wolfpack of 9 Sept, 1941 ).

''Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama''. Stephen Fox, Vintage Press ( The merging -point between sail, steam, wood and iron, and the submarine during the American Civil War, and the first naval battles between the US and the Japanese Empire nearly 75 years before Pearl Harbor ).

''Sea of Gray: The Around The World Odyssey Of The Confederate Raider Shenandoah'' Tom Chaffin, Farrar, Straus , and Giroux. The last to surrender, a global odyssey.

''In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy Of the Whaleship ESSEX'': Nathan Philbrick, Penguin Books. ( The source of Melvilles ''Moby Dick'', the sinking of the ESSEX by a whale east of Easter Island in 1819 remains one of the great tales of survival, cannibalism , and the Nantucket whaling industry ).

''Sea of Glory:Four Chaplains and the USS Dorchester'', Ken Wales, David Poling. ( The sinking of USS Dorchester, an American troop ship, by U-223 on the morning of February 03,1943 and the personal sacrifice of the chaplains who went down with their ship ).

[Jimbuna]

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

That is one book I couldn't come to grips with

Why is that jim?

I'm on chapter five now and so far plodding but not boring.