What are we reading?

[Gusington]

I fell asleep during the foreplay. And you all know how I feel about foreplay. And WWI.

[besilarius]

October Men, by Anthony Price.
Price wrote at the same time as John LeCarre, and was not as well renowned.  I think most of that was pure snobbery.  No one can do opaque and confusing like LeCarre.
However, Price writes great spy stories that seem to be clear, when he pulls deep surprises and leaves you shocked and amazed.  His protagonist, David Audley, is also deeply interested in history, and many of the stories revolve around this. Which makes it great for wargamers who also like history.
October Men is great for the way a german business man double crosses the Stasi, the KGB, the british, and an international Italian oilman.  Yet he never appears because he died mysteriously before the book begins. 
And General Montori, the head of the Italian secret police, has a chance to settle a debt going back to World War II.
Just a great ride if you like spy fiction.

[Greybriar]

Hunting Hitler: New Scientific Evidence that Hitler Escaped Nazi Germany by Jerome R. Corsi

[Gusington]

France at Bay 1870-1871: The Struggle for Paris by Douglas Fermer

[Nefaro]

Finally picked up my own copy of Red Storm Rising the other day.  Haven't read it forever, so I'm looking forward to this.

Found a mint hardback copy at a local thrift store a few years ago.   O0   One of my most-read books evah.  Prompted me to go pick up the old GDW Harpoon tabletop version back in my youngling days, so it spawned even more awesome.

8)

[bbmike]

Hunting Hitler: New Scientific Evidence that Hitler Escaped Nazi Germany by Jerome R. Corsi

I didn't read it but did see the documentary.  ;D

[JasonPratt]

Man, it's amazing how much "Mr. Johnson" looks like David Tennant; and how much DT can act like him! I was getting some serious Ten flashbacks there...

Let us know if that book has anything interesting to compile and/or add to such theories, Greybriar!

[OJsDad]

Starting 'Germany Ascendant'

[Gusington]

Post impressions!

[BanzaiCat]

I went on a bit of a Kindle Book bender yesterday...bought The Victory that Wasn't, Project Return Fire, and Amerikan Eagle. All alternate history stuff.

Now, my "Recommended For You" section is full of books with swastikas on their covers... :(

Speaking of, I did try to read Mein Kampf once in college, for a paper I was writing, but I couldn't get through the first 20 pages. It was some seriously random rambling bullshit.

I finished the Secret Service book, which was pretty good, but depressing (the Secret Service is kind of messed up). I started reading Mustaine, an autobiography by the one and only Dave Mustaine of Metallica and Megadeth fame. It's a very good read so far and I'm only a couple of chapters in.

[Gusington]

I've read that Mustaine is a borderline genius/psychopath.

[WallysWorld]

Finally finished Robert K. Massie's "Dreadnought" and enjoyed the book very much. The details behind the naval race and politics/diplomacy in pre-World War One Europe was fascinating.

Now back to his "Castles of Steel" which I let sit after one hundred pages when posters here suggested I read "Dreadnought" first. That advice was good. Thanks for it.

[Gusington]

^Excellent! Castles of Steel is about 880 pages IIRC so...enjoy!

And read Massie's Peter the Great when you get the chance.

[Pinetree]

I went on a bit of a Kindle Book bender yesterday...bought The Victory that Wasn't, Project Return Fire, and Amerikan Eagle. All alternate history stuff.

Have you tried Festung Europa: The Anglo-American/Nazi War? WWII carries onto 1959. Written as a history, it was actually pretty good. It started out as a thread on an alternate history forum.

[BanzaiCat]

you tried Festung Europa: The Anglo-American/Nazi War? WWII carries onto 1959. Written as a history, it was actually pretty good. It started out as a thread on an alternate history forum.

Yup. I've been reading that, too.  O0

Though I've been going back and forth to it, because it looks like whomever wrote it didn't bother with an editor. There's tons of punctuation, spelling, and other errors that really ruin the story for me, and are quite frankly unforgivable in a published/for sale work, which is otherwise very well done.