What are we reading?

[Shelldrake]

First clash : combat close-up in World War Three

IIRC that one focuses on the Canadians?

And really hard to find! Where did you manage to score a copy eyebiter?

[Staggerwing]

IIRC, last time this title came up in conversation Amazon or it's affiliates had some in stock. Some as low as fifty cents US!

[GDS_Starfury]

i still have my original.

[eyebiter]

re: First Clash
Found at local university library.  4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in World War III.  "...mobile defense against a Soviet Tank Division in the European setting, the summer circa 1984"

re: Uboat Century
The focus of the book is German WWI & WWII submarines.  However there is a chapter 'The Modern German Navy' covers Cold War era submarines.  A few small experiment boats in the 1950s, then the Germans started to develop advanced diesel/ electric coastal submarines again in the 1960s. 

Did not realize the German Type 206 submarines have been decomissioned and replaced by the 212 class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212_submarine

[Staggerwing]

Did not realize the German Type 206 submarines have been decomissioned and replaced by the 212 class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212_submarine

From Wiki:

The submarine can operate at high speed on diesel power or switch to the AIP system for silent slow cruising, staying submerged for up to three weeks without surfacing and with no exhaust heat. The system is also said to be vibration-free, extremely quiet and virtually undetectable.

Hot Damn! Are you Canadians reading this? I told you guys already- German engineering is the way to go!  ;)

[GDS_Starfury]

Germany is where Israel gets all their current subs from.

oh sweet irony.

[Grimnirsson]

There was a time when we had plenty of opportunities to test subs - I expect them to be great now  ;)

[Bismarck]

Snooks "Into the Jaws of Death - British Military Blunders 1879 - 1900.

[DoctorQuest]

Picked up "The SS Brotherhood of the Bell" by Joseph P. Farrell at the library. One of the those "we were this close to the Nazi's taking over the world" books. "UFOs are not from outer space, they are from Nazi Germany."

Should be interesting to say the least.

[GDS_Starfury]

www.rzm.com   sorry for your wallets.

[Martok]

Just started The Return of the King.  I'm already a little sad I'm coming to the end of my annual reading of this wonderful series so soon. 

[Bismarck]

Snooks'  Into the Jaws of Defeat: British Military Blunders 1879-1900

[Gusington]

^Sounds like another solid read and sort of related to what I am reading now...The Battle of Adwa (Italian defeat in Ethiopia) by Raymond Jonas. I'm going to be writing a review of it for GH soon, it is one of the better books I've read in the last few years.

[Bismarck]

Nice tip.  Thanks.

[Gusington]

^Yes sir. From your last few posts I think you would enjoy the Adwa book a lot.