"So...What Are You Reading?" Topic

Something for inspiration? Rules? A history book? A novel? I'm reading, "The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan," by Lt. Col. E.W.C. Sandes. Excellent book. Currently enjoying the chapter on Gordon at Khartoum.

Wuthering Heights.

Manuever and Battle of the Mexican Revolution..Vol 1 of 5..I am plowing thru this monster book..almost too much info ,,,great book ..a little dry..don;t know if will buy 4 or 5 ..great book ..but man o man..I have learned a lot and for gaming it's great …but wow..

Catherine Called Birdy

Rising Sun, Falling Skies (The Java Sea Campaign).

Russian Tanks 1900-1970.

Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man.

Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy. Fascinating.

Go To Your God Like A Soldier

Last book in David Powell's Chickamauga trilogy. Fantastic reads!

The Amazons – Lives & Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

The story of Stonehedge
Not about gaming but interesting history.

1861

Goodbye Dolly Gray an oldie but goodie on the Boer
War

"The Road to Middle-Earth" by Tom Shippey.

"Lies of Locke Lamora" by Lynch and "Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462 by Bicheno.

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution by Kilmeade and Yaeger.

Mead and Lee after Gettysburg. by Jeffrey Hunt

Shelby Foote's 'Civil War: A Narrative,' volume 3. First time through.

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

Orlando Figes

I am more than halfway through the initial section which lays out the background on why and how it could (have) happen(ed). It goes way back into the deep rooted causes and how they came to work together to allow and create the conditions which didn't just lead to the revolution but made it inevitable.

Very thorough and informative. It appears to be regarded as one of the best researched and thoughtful works on the subject. I hope the rest of the book lays out what did happen and how the events were related. I doubt I will be disappointed based on my reading thus far.

Just finished 'Wargamers Guide to the Crusades'.

Haile Selassie's War: the Italian-Ethiopian Campaign 1935-1941, by A Mockler

Fascinating and very engagingly written. Can't put it down; Ethiopians have just been gassed for the first time. Looks like it goes up to the liberation by the British.

The Mad Mullah Of Somaliland by Jardine

"The Buccaneers of America" by Alexander O. Exquemelin.

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Thick As Thieves, the latest in the Queen's Thief/Eugenides series by Megan Whalen Turner.

My neighbours mail. Its recycling day and I find lots of it on my front lawn.

Bruce M.S Campbell "The Great Transition. Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World".

Dracula

Steven Duffy's 'Russia's way to the west'

The catalogue of the recent British Museum Scythian exhibition.

The Other side of the Hill, by Liddell Hart. It's a WWII account written uppon the interviews of german high ranking military officers, just finished the war. I find it very interesting.

"Titans at the Admiralty: Churchill and Fisher in WW I." Just finished "The Man From the Diogenes Club."

Horizon wars and The last argument of kings by Joe Abercrombie

War with China books by Dale Brown and David Poyer. Fiction, yes, and scary.

I just finished Moby Dick for about the fourth time. Absolutely love that book. I think it was George Steiner who once said Huckleberry Finn is the best American novel; Moby Dick is the best novel by an American. Interesting comment.

Of the titles above, The Mad Mullah caught my attention. I'll have to look for that!

Just doing research on different eras. So my reading is spotty.

"The Sling and The Stone" a book about 4th generation warfare.

"Cuba in War Time" by Richard Harding Davis.

Re- reading Dando At Delhi Ridge.

"John Company's Last War" by Barbara English. It's about an Anglo-Persian war in the 1860s.

Finished Case Red and did Ortona and Husky
All good reads

I'm ready to start Michael Asher's "Khartoum" and Anton Adams' "The War in Mexico" is coming in the mail (although delayed, darn it)

War in the Shadows by Robert Asprey. A history of insurgencies and Guerilla warfare since Antiquity to the end of Vietnam. Very very good two volumes.

I have The Sling and the Stone for my next book.

A lot of interesting titles so far.

just finished a book researching the real life, geography, and plants and animals of Laura Ingalls Wilder. ( the author of the little house on the prairie books).

fascinating read, and some of my favorites as a child and for my children, especially FARMER BOY.

I am now reading a book on Churchill that is hard for me to stay awake as i read it. I am giving it a couple more chapters, but it reads like a dissertation paper.

Vikings and their Enemies

Sino-French Naval War 1884-1885
Mark

Extinction Edge by Nicholas sansbury smith – zombie book

Re-reading Michael Moorcock's Hawkmoon stories as I prepared to paint up the Eureka figures for Dragon Rampant.

Just finished the 1040 Instructions for 2017 Federal Taxes.
Now back to reading Ohara's Clash of Fleets.