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08-22-12, 10:45 AM | #976 |
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08-22-12, 11:10 AM | #977 |
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Pretty awesome pastime!
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08-22-12, 01:54 PM | #978 |
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Almost finished with Deep Six, next up is To Kill The Potemkin.
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08-30-12, 06:20 AM | #979 |
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I'm just finishing volume 1 of Padfield's Tide of Empires and it is quite good. Whole chapters are devoted to Vasco da Gama's campaign of terror in the Indian Ocean and the Portuguese attempts to set up a trading empire by brute force. Of course it wasn't all one-sided; the Muslim merchants had a monopoly and didn't want competition from the west. Padfield's contention is that religion had nothing to do with the naval campaigns of the era. Greed was the sole driving force, and everything else was a cover. He then goes on to show the same thing for the Spanish colonization of the New World, and ultimately the war between England and Spain, with the execution of Mary Stuart being yet another excuse for one nation to try to conquer the other. I'm about to start the finishing chapters on the Anglo-Dutch trade war of the 1600s, and it's obviously going to be more of the same.
That sounds boring, but Padfield gives detailed views of each campaign and the personalities of the major players. It's an easy read, and quite absorbing. It's more than thirty years old and out of print, but still available online for a very low price.
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08-30-12, 06:34 AM | #980 |
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Stormbird: One of the Luftwaffe's Highest Scoring Me262 Aces by Hermann Buchner.
Just gone through his childhood, and he's just turned up for basic training.
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08-30-12, 06:48 AM | #981 |
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The Battle Of The Atlantic (The Ryal Canadian Navy's Greatest Campaign 1939-1945) by Dr Roger Sarty
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08-30-12, 07:42 PM | #982 | |
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That sounds amazing. I am looking it up on wikipedia as I type.
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08-30-12, 10:23 PM | #983 | |
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When Genius Failed - The Rise & Fall of Long Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein.
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08-31-12, 06:29 AM | #984 | |
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It is good so far, lots of pictures too, which is good.
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09-01-12, 02:11 PM | #985 |
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09-01-12, 03:11 PM | #986 |
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Now a new book U 997 - Geleitzugschlachten im Eismeer: Mit Ritterkreuzträger Hans Lehmann auf Feindfahrt vor Murmansk http://www.amazon.de/997-Geleitzugsc...6530110&sr=8-1
and Kapitänleutnant Max-Martin Teichert: Mit U456 im Nordmeer und Atlantik - http://www.amazon.de/Kapit%C3%A4nleu...6530119&sr=8-1 Really great reading matter about artic war in 1944/45 (U-997) and 1942/43 (U-456).
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09-01-12, 04:29 PM | #987 |
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Not finished the other book yet, or the myriad on the bookshelves, but I bought a recent translation of All Quiet On The Western Front today.
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09-02-12, 04:03 PM | #988 |
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My Clancy journey is coming to an end. Im in the middle of Locked On.
After that, I have Red Storm Rising and Against All Enemies to read and i'll be done with all of Clancy's books. Wonderful author.
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09-03-12, 12:30 AM | #989 |
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Just finished A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin, Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. Currently on page 400 of Shadow Warriors by Tom Clancy, and just started Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey. Once Shadow Warriors is done I'll start on A Feast for Crows by Martin.
Yes I read a lot
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09-03-12, 06:06 AM | #990 |
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Red Storm Rising in particular is an excellent read
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