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05-18-08, 09:47 AM | #331 |
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What am I reading?
Recently finished the SPQR series (a nice whodunit set) and several of the Scarrow series. Am reading P.G.Wodehouse (Jeeves & Wooster series) and Scott Adams' dilbert piece: Slapped Together.
Was in a used bookstore and came across this book, Raiders of the Deep, by Lowell Thomas, a STAR Book, through Garden City Publishing, Garden City, NY. It was written in 1928 about the KM U-boats and their RN advesaries. It consists of personal interviews with Spiess, von Hersing, et al, gathered by the author, including very brief descriptions of them, their homes and post-war professions. Herr von Hersing returns home to raise potatoes! Of those KLs who were dead, he interviewed crew, many times the officers. During the Spiess interveiw, he queried about the Lusitania incident. Spiess preambled with a brief description of the crew and life aboard the boat. The author followed this with an interview of a Lusitania survivor. Haven't finished it yet, but it is a fascinating work so far. |
05-18-08, 10:53 AM | #332 | |
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Sounds like my kind of book. I've put it on my 'to-do' list.
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05-20-08, 03:55 AM | #333 |
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Reading Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio out of Morison's Naval Operations series. Next on the list is The Difference Engine by William Gibson and a co-author who's name escapes me.
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05-23-08, 08:48 AM | #334 |
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It's not really a "reading" sort of book, but I recently acquired a copy of DK's Reef, which contains hundreds of pictures taken by the Scubazoo team of coral reefs and the creatures that live on them. Really magnificient photography, if the subject interests you.
Just for the sake of relevency, here's a picture from the book of a wrecked Catalina in Biak harbor: Creepy, huh? |
05-23-08, 11:17 AM | #335 |
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan 1944-45 by Max Hastings. Very good after 100 pages.
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05-25-08, 04:14 PM | #336 |
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Just finished Among the Dead Cities by A.C. Greyling a rather polemic assault on the strategic bombing campaigns of WW2. The author pretends to be even-handed but his bias' dominate throughout the book. About what one might expect when a professor of philosphy takes on the subject of this nature.
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05-28-08, 02:38 PM | #337 |
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having read a few of the comments i've just ordered "forgotten soldier" and "sniper on the eastern front."
What i am currently reading which i think is absolutly brilliant(so good that after reading it from the library i ordered it and it is quite expensive here getting from overseas), by Anthony Loyd "my war gone by, i miss it so", a heartfelt struggle by a journalist with heroin and adreniline(war) addiction which leads him constantly back to the killing fields of Bosnia. The writing style is excellent and it's a damn good,shocking read. Get it you won't be dissapointed. Thunder |
06-05-08, 09:16 PM | #338 |
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I just picked up Samuel Eliot Morison's The Discovery Of America, volume 1: The Northern Voyages, 800-1600.
Lots of fun so far.
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06-06-08, 06:40 AM | #339 |
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Went into a used bookstore on a layover and found a 2nd edition of "The British Submarine" by Lipscomb. Looks good and has a centerfold too! (T class sectional) Not bad for 7 USD.
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06-06-08, 06:45 AM | #340 |
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Ah, centerfolds of naked ships! A friend of mine had a laugh long ago when he and his wife were in a magazine shop. She stormed over ready to give him a piece of her mind when she saw him looking at a centerfold...and she didn't know what to say when she realized it was a fold-out of plans for a model airplane!:rotfl:
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07-01-08, 08:21 PM | #341 |
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Well, I was trying to read Theodore Mason's Battleship Sailor... but some library patron had torn pages out of it at random.
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07-01-08, 08:39 PM | #342 |
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US Grant's memoirs...on a civil war reading streak while playing AGEOD's ACW and Gary Grigsby's WBTS.
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07-05-08, 01:21 AM | #343 |
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Joe Buff's "Tidal Rip". A bit futuristic for my blood and too much focus on one character, but I guess I will finish it.
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07-06-08, 09:47 AM | #344 |
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'Das Boot' again....4th time. Has to be the quintessential WWII submarine novel. A real classic in my opinion.
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07-06-08, 05:19 PM | #345 |
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The Golden Reign: The Story of My Friendship with "Lawrence of Arabia" by Clare Sydney Smith, 1940.
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