"Books you are currently reading" Topic

Just finished up rereading the Defense of Duffers Drift this morning – curious what others are reading

Getting out Sword and the Flame this evening to try a game or two using the scenario outlined in the book.

I'm reading Candide, largely because I wanted to see the source of the quotation "pour encourager les autres."

Grelber

The Heart of the Sea

Movie comes out later in the year:

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It's a true story told by an historian.

"1864" A rather brilliant book about the second Shleswig war.

Dead Wake,Iron Hearts,Iron Hulls, It never Snows in September.

"The Contribution of the Bavarian Army to the War of 1866" and Dudley Pope's "Ramage and the Freebooter".

How to Make War (3rd edition). Getting ready for some Cold War gaming :)

The Contribution of the Bavarian Army to the War of 1866, not much really…

No, seriously I have read that one and rather fancy adding the Bavarians to my 1866 collection.

Ranger Dawn, history of Ranger units in 1600-1800 in America

Whitechapel Gods (steampunk/horror) and The Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion.

In the Steps of the Black Prince. Worth reading, but not as fun as the Burne books.

I have been doing a lot of FIW reading over the past year, but I'm currently on the grand daddy of them all – Montcalm and Wolfe!

Steel World by B.V. Larson

Steel World by B.V. Larson in audio book format. Don't have time to sit and actually read anymore.

Just finished Down And Out In Paris And London (George Orwell) – although details are different in a lot of places it seems to be very applicable to today's world.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Samurai! – Saburo Saki ww2 Japanese air ace. At the moment if I had to recommend 2 ww2 books from "the other side"- this would be one.

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson and Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph E. Persico. The first I'm reading on my own and the second I'm reading aloud to my wife while she does sedentary chores; she's fascinated with spying.

Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Third World War : the Untold Story

Between books but been meaning to read some Moorcock again

"We Are In For It" The First Battle of Kernstown by Gary L. Ecelbarger. I found it used. It is very detailed; good for someone wishing to game ACW down to a company level in a small action.

Go Strong Into the Desert

I've been on a Colonial kick lately with a particular interest in the Sudan.

A Connecticut Yankee in Penn 's Woods.
I hoot to gleam some Yankee Pennamite scenarios. If not it will at least tell me who some of the major streets around here are named after.

Warrior of Rome series

This week?

Let me see. I've just finished Pierre Razoux "Tsahal" and started Christopher Browning's "The Origins of the Final Solution".

Last week I read "1177BC" by E H Cline.
Realy interesting book about the end of the great bronze age empires. I liked it so much I am considering to finaly start painting those Hitittes and Myceneans I bought ages ago!

Currently reading Victus, the fall of Barcelona by A S Pinol. About the War of Spanish Succession in Spain and Catalonia. It is a historical fiction book, but there are lots of contemporary images and maps in the book. If you are looking for inspiration to play out a siege, this is it!

Just finished Viv Albertines 'Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys' which was very good.

Currently on Ori Orrs 'Yom Kippur War: These are my brothers' but for some reason had a flick through Peter Beales 'Tank Tracks' yesterday for the relvant chapters on Operation Jupiter.

This will be a strange Poll if run. Each entrant will get one and only one vote.

Just started The 1st/5th Lincolnshire Regiment in the Great War.

Currently halfway though Sara Paretsky's Critical Mass and Eighth Air Force Bomber stories by Ian McLachlan.

First Man in Rome.It was heartily recommended here on TMP awhile back and I found a copy at Half Price Books last week.

"Lord of the Rings". Again.

Sarah Bradford "The Reluctant King" a biography of Geroge VI.

Patricia Anderson "When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians."

Jackob Burkhardt "The Civilization of Renaissance in Italy." Actually this will be the third time through both volumes.

I never read novels.

"Shadow War", a history of the war in Laos, '45-80.

"Happy Odessey" – the autobiography of General Carton De Wiart. A very remarkable man. Seemingly indestructible!

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Between books but been meaning to read some Moorcock again

Tales of the White Wolf – authorized fan fiction compilation.

The Golden Fleece by Robert Graves. Fantastic book, even more so the second go around.

Battles of the Dark Ages by Peter Marren. Nice read. I like his style.

Guns, Germs and Steel. Everybody knows about this one. I am late to the reading game, but the wait is worth it. Entertaining writing style.

Hmm, only three books, I am getting jaded I suppose….

If this poll takes awhile before it runs, everyone's answer will b different and maybe not even on the poll…..

Buty I'll be safe with a book I read slowly in short snippets:

The Conscious Catwoman by Julie Newmar.