Old Contemptible ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 May 2023 5:32 p.m. PST |
This board would be about books you are reading now or just finished reading. |
cavcrazy | 25 May 2023 6:11 p.m. PST |
Military dress of the Peninsular war by Martin Windrow and Gerry Embleton. It's from 1974 and is a great resource book. |
Schogun ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 May 2023 7:27 p.m. PST |
"The Rebecca Code: Rommel's Spy in North Africa and Operation Kondor" by Mark Simmons. In The Rebecca Code, Mark Simmons reveals the story of Operation Kondor and its comedy of errors and how it was foiled by Major A.W. ‘Sammy' Sansom of the British Field Security Service. It is a tale of the desert, of the hotbed of intrigue that was 1940s Cairo, and the spy who was to send his reports using a code based on Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca. |
Perris0707 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 May 2023 7:35 p.m. PST |
Too busy painting to read much right now. Just reading orders of battle for various ACW battles as I paint. |
Deucey ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 May 2023 8:02 p.m. PST |
I just ordered the 9 issue DC run of Flash Gordon. Also reading The Gospel of Gabriel. Rules-wise: War Rocket by Hydra is about to send me down another rabbit hole. |
D6 Junkie | 25 May 2023 8:59 p.m. PST |
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Arjuna | 25 May 2023 9:21 p.m. PST |
Having read on what forum the question was asked and the answers given so far I would say the people love the idea of a 'What are you reading right now' message board on TMP. They're already filling the bookshelf… |
Oberlindes Sol LIC ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 May 2023 10:00 p.m. PST |
Reading? Like from a printout or something? |
Martin Rapier | 25 May 2023 11:39 p.m. PST |
Yet another Kim Newman vampire book. I needed some light relief after Beevors "Russian Civil War". |
ZULUPAUL ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 May 2023 2:34 a.m. PST |
The War in the Vendee by George Hill Always wanted to know about the Catholic response to the Revolutionary oppression of the Church. |
Greylegion | 26 May 2023 2:46 a.m. PST |
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robert piepenbrink ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 May 2023 3:35 a.m. PST |
Just for fun, I ran the journal back a week. AD 100--a two-volume Avram Davidson collection. In Search of Dr. Watson A Murder of Magpies (Judith Flanders) Long Shadows (Jodi Taylor) On the Marble Cliffs (Junger) Where was Rebecca Shot? (Sutherland) Bits of Fortescue's History of the British Army A certain lack of focus, I should say. |
King Monkey | 26 May 2023 4:07 a.m. PST |
Just finished Worlds of Arthur by Guy Halsall and Killing Napoleon by Jonathon North. Currently reading The invisible emperor by Mark Braude and about to start To conquer and to keep by Yuhan Kim. |
FusilierDan ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 May 2023 4:33 a.m. PST |
I would support a board like that although books can be posted in the *media section of many other boards. For example TMP link But wait there's this in the TMP Plus TMP link Anyway here's what I'm actively reading this week. The later suggested on TMP Tastes Like War, A Memoir. by Grace M. Cho African Founders, How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by David Hackett Fischer |
mildbill | 26 May 2023 5:08 a.m. PST |
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Steamingdave2 | 26 May 2023 5:10 a.m. PST |
" Marlborough's Other Army" by Nick Dorrell and " Mons" by John Terraine. The latter book was part of a collection of about 2 dozen Pan Military History. paperbacks given to me by a lady clearing her father's house, as he has had to go into a care home. I think most of them were written in the 1960s, so more modern research may make some of them " out of date", but they are a good read. Finished one on Jutland a couple of weeks ago, written by Captain Donald McInytre, who commanded convoy escorts in WW2 very successfully, so a thing or two about naval tactics. |
Son of MOOG | 26 May 2023 5:17 a.m. PST |
Currently reading "The Siege of Loyalty House" by Jessie Childs, about the siege(s) of Basing House during the English Civil War. Just finished re-reading "To the Gates of Richmond" by Stephen Sears. Will probably start a fantasy trilogy next, "The Eyes of Tamburah" (Archives of the Invisible Sword Book 1) by Maria Snyder. I would welcome and support such a board. |
tigrifsgt | 26 May 2023 6:30 a.m. PST |
Last of the Mohicans, the original. |
etotheipi ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 26 May 2023 6:44 a.m. PST |
Now: Six Frigates (origin of the US Navy) The Skeptic's Guide to the Future (critique of the future as the past saw it and implications on how we see it) Hellboy and the BPRD Just Finished: βατράχια (Frogs, ancient Greek satire) How to Lead |
Rich Bliss | 26 May 2023 9:32 a.m. PST |
The British are Coming by Atkinson. |
PK Guy Brent | 26 May 2023 12:38 p.m. PST |
I usually have 3 or 4 at a time that I'm reading. Currently: Revolutionary Roads, Bob Thompson Dark Waters, Starry Skies, Jeffrey Cox Mastering the Art of Command, Trent Hone Legion Versus Phalanx, Myke Cole |
114th Pennsylvania ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 May 2023 2:00 p.m. PST |
Audio Books just finished War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy The Mexican American War- Captivating History The Mexican American War- Hummel, McElroy and Childs Recent Reads SAGA v2 Core rules Regimental F&F Mexican American War Variant rules Regimental F&F Mexican American War scenario Palo Alto |
epturner | 26 May 2023 2:08 p.m. PST |
Culloden, edited by Tony Pollard. I just finished Culloden, by Trevor Royle. I also have a book on the 1745 campaign of Marshal Saxe that I've started, but stopped for the two previous books. Eric |
Herkybird ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 May 2023 2:21 p.m. PST |
I am reading the Del Rey composite Conan books (IE all the original) Robert E Howard stories.
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rmaker | 26 May 2023 3:46 p.m. PST |
Just finished Fred Anderson's A People's Army. |
FusilierDan ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 May 2023 4:47 p.m. PST |
There's also this section on TMP TMP link The new board being proposed would be an ongoing thread that would end up falling off the homepage of many members as I understand it. |
14Bore | 26 May 2023 4:59 p.m. PST |
Been slowly reading David Walder's Nelson, it's very good just been busy doing other hobby stuff. |
gamertom ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 May 2023 5:38 p.m. PST |
"A Long & Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton On Through Kennesaw Mountain to The Chattahoochee River May 5 – June 18, 1864" by Stephen Davis "All The Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign From Peeachtree Creek To The City's Surrender July 18 – September 2, 1864" by Stephen Davis These two are nice overall all summaries of the Atlanta Campaign, but Castel's book on it is better. Author definitely isn't a fan of Joe Johnston and speaks of the redeeming features of Hood and how Hood has been misrepresented in how he handled the second half of the campaign. Author never eludes to what Johnston should have done except withdraw once his positions were flanked during the first half of the campaign. Finished rereading "The Traveler" by John Twelve Hawks yesterday and am currently rereading its sequel, "The Dark River." Given these were written 16-17 years ago, they are amazingly relevant to current surveillance technology, especially how China has utilized it. Did miss out on the use of drones. |
Buck215 | 26 May 2023 7:54 p.m. PST |
I'm illiterate. I just look at the pictures. |
Old Contemptible ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 27 May 2023 1:35 a.m. PST |
So I recently finished David McCullough's "John Adams" and I am now halfway through James McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." |
Dagwood | 27 May 2023 11:28 a.m. PST |
Current – Vindolanda by Adrian Goldsworthy. A novel, not a history book. Previous – three different Jack Reacher novels back-to-back |
torokchar ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 27 May 2023 6:42 p.m. PST |
Great book on the 3rd Armored Division during WWII: The Panzer Killers THE UNTOLD STORY OF A FIGHTING GENERAL AND HIS SPEARHEAD TANK DIVISION'S CHARGE INTO THE THIRD REICH By Daniel P. Bolger Highly recommended. |
The Last Conformist | 29 May 2023 1:08 a.m. PST |
The currently reading pile consists of: Roy Boss, Justinian's Wars Jonathan Sumption, Trial by Fire Warren Treadgold, The Middle Byzantine Historians |
Deucey ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 29 May 2023 7:03 a.m. PST |
"The Miniatures Page" obviously! |
Arjuna | 29 May 2023 9:45 a.m. PST |
In this strange place I met a Hound with a thousand faces who followed me to my secret garden. Now that it's Pentecost, I got inspired and study Hunter Thomas famous poem. I also need to confer about it with one of my daughters, a budding English and American studies major. My thanks, doc. :) As it happens, inspired by another topic on TMP: What makes something a wargame?, I'm currently studying 'Rules of Play – Game Design Fundamentals' by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, MIT Press (2003). and 'THE GRASSHOPPER – Games, Life and Utopia' by Bernard Suits, broadview press 2005 The Grasshopper is a little hidden gem, highly recommended, if you're interested in why people play games. Now, I am also currently skimming 'Rules: A Short History of What We Live By' by Lorraine Daston, Princeton Univers. Press 2022. In addition, I'm reading a couple of interviews with the author and reviews of the book. Of course, it is irresistible for me, to read a cultural history of 'Rules' mentioning Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Kuhn, and dealing a bit with 'algorithms' and 'artificial intelligence'. Yet I'm not far and rather at a loss with the introduction of the terms 'thick' and 'thin' rules and maybe superficial knowledge of Theoretical Computer Science. Perhaps a broad sweep in a rather short book, with about 380 pages. But I will see into it. On the plus side, she is the wife of Gerd Gigerenzer, a German author whom I value, and critic of Daniel Kahnemann whom I also value. Gigerenzer has done some interesting research on 'risk', 'heuristics', and 'cognitive fallacies' as adaptive responses to a world of uncertainty. Oh, and not to forget it's a book that was asked about in another TMP thread: On the Nature of Rules Where I came aware of it. |
Arjuna | 29 May 2023 10:56 a.m. PST |
Ups, almost forgot The Department of Truth The comic assumes that reality is literally highly subjective and depends on the beliefs of big numbers of people. The more people believe in it, the more real it becomes, displacing the previously prevailing reality, including its past and the memory of it. That the 'right' truth prevails is, of course, a question of power. This is what 'The Department of Truth' takes care of in the U.S. The Soviets had their own 'Department of Lies', but as we know, they lost in the war against our reality. Deep State, Lee Harvey Oswald, Satanic Panic, Black Hats, White Hats, the truth about Area 51 revealed along the way, and a few leftover Soviets mourning the loss of their "Truth/Reality." Nothing is true, everything is permitted. |
Deucey ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 29 May 2023 8:51 p.m. PST |
Sounds dreadful. Update on some of my reading: the DC Flash Gordon disappoints. Almost nothing happens in the first issue. Plus they kill off Zarkoff in the crash on Mongo!! And Flash is something of a jerk. Ugh. Gospel of Gabriel on the other hand is pretty good! |
Parzival ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 01 Jun 2023 8:04 a.m. PST |
Just finished Scott O'dell's 1966 Newbery Honor book The King's Fifth. A historical children's/YA* novel set during the time of the Conquistadors, it features a young protagonist caught up in Coronado's quest for the Seven Cities of Gold. Good book and a quick read, and offers some possible scenario ideas for skirmish gaming. *Ages 12 and up, really; it's not gory, but there's a lot of violent death involved, as one might expect. On par with a Sutcliff book.
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Dal Gavan ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 01 Jun 2023 3:18 p.m. PST |
George Forty's Tank Warfare in WWII. First hand accounts from Allied and Axis soldiers. and David Farland's Runelords series. |