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mirth

#3540
March 12, 2017, 06:43:28 PM
I think the Creatans were a bit fed up with invaders in general.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Staggerwing

#3541
March 12, 2017, 06:58:40 PM
Blame the Mycenaeans for souring the Cretans' opinions on invaders right from the get-go.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

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mirth

#3542
March 12, 2017, 07:17:12 PM
I blame the Mycenaeans for a lot of things.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Staggerwing

#3543
March 12, 2017, 07:29:29 PM
It's all their fault. All of it.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

Gusington

#3544
March 12, 2017, 09:13:08 PM
What'd they ever do to you?
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Sir Slash

#3545
March 12, 2017, 10:38:05 PM
I think they peed in his Greece.  :DD
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

airboy

#3546
March 13, 2017, 10:06:16 PM
I just finished "The Good Years" by Walter Lord.  It is a light US history of some major events from 1900 to 1914.

I'm currently reading "Lonely Vigil" about the Coast Watchers in the Solomons in WW2.

I've already read Incredible Victory and Day of Infamy.

He writes entertaining, light history that incorporate a lot of viewpoints of individuals from the time period. 
I may read "A Time to Stand" (the Alamo) and Miracle at Dunkirk.  Any opinions on these two if you have read them?

Greybriar

#3547
March 14, 2017, 12:57:27 AM
I am enjoying reading The Royal Succession by Maurice Druon.
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Sir Slash

#3548
March 16, 2017, 09:47:29 AM
Just started, "Lee's Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies" by Philip Leigh. Great book so far-- lots to think about with some very good points from both sides.  O0
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Gusington

#3549
March 16, 2017, 02:51:53 PM
Finished Beevor's Fall of Berlin yesterday. Classic book. Just started Ghostland: American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey.
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We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

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WallysWorld

#3550
March 16, 2017, 03:26:01 PM Last Edit: March 16, 2017, 05:30:14 PM by WallysWorld
Quote from: Gusington on March 16, 2017, 02:51:53 PM
Finished Beevor's Fall of Berlin yesterday. Classic book.
I very much enjoyed that book too!

Putting down Solzhenitsyn's "August 1914" for a while. The first half of the book was pretty good with the Tannenberg battle.

Started Prit Buttar's "Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914" a few nights ago and I'm liking it so far.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I'm with isn't *it* and what *it* is seems weird and scary to me." - Abraham Simpson

Airborne Rifles

#3551
March 16, 2017, 04:05:00 PM
Quote from: bob48 on March 12, 2017, 04:34:52 PM
I finally got around to starting 'Crete' by Beevor.

Read this a couple months ago and really enjoyed it as well.

bob48

#3552
March 16, 2017, 04:49:51 PM Last Edit: March 16, 2017, 04:58:17 PM by bob48
I finished it today. Some of the incident's, such as the capture of General Kreipe, are astounding.

Definitely I would rank this as one of his best books, an amazing mixture of bravery, brutality, and downright stupidity.

Also, if you've not already read it, I would recommend 'A Magnificent Disaster' by David Bennett.
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Gusington

#3553
March 16, 2017, 05:13:24 PM
^Have you read Beevor's Berlin book?
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We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

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bob48

#3554
March 16, 2017, 05:13:49 PM
Not yet, but its on my list.
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'Clip those corners'

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