What are we reading?

[Martok]

Just for you, Jason (especially since it takes one to know one 8) ): 

[TacticalWargames]

I agree..my favourite series after LOTR.

Magician, Silverthorn, and Darkness and Sethanon by Feist

Great series. One of my favorites.

[Airborne Rifles]

Just finished Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947. Its an academic examination of the Allied plans for the invasion and the Japanese plans for the defense, and of the thinking behind the dropping of the atomic bombs. Lots of numbers, especially up front when the author is discussing draft numbers and replacement streams to the Pacific, but I really enjoyed the thorough treatment that the logistics of the invasion gets. It would truly have been a horrific affair.

My grandfather's division was slated to go in to Kyushu in the initial wave and he's always told me how amazed he is today that we were willing to sacrifice whole divisions on secondary objectives.

http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Pay-Operation-DOWNFALL-1945-1947-ebook/dp/B0052LJC1K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419038876&sr=1-1&keywords=hell+to+pay

[Gusington]

Sounds like a good read...I may pick that up if the price is right.

[airboy]

Finished Strands of Sorrow - the conclusion of the 4 book Zombie Apocalypse series by John Ringo.

Also finished  Russian Sideshow: America's Undeclared War, 1918 - 1920 about the US intervention in the Russian Civil War.  This intervention was so screwed up it reads like the French in the Franco-Prussian War.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Just finished Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947. Its an academic examination of the Allied plans for the invasion and the Japanese plans for the defense, and of the thinking behind the dropping of the atomic bombs. Lots of numbers, especially up front when the author is discussing draft numbers and replacement streams to the Pacific, but I really enjoyed the thorough treatment that the logistics of the invasion gets. It would truly have been a horrific affair.

My grandfather's division was slated to go in to Kyushu in the initial wave and he's always told me how amazed he is today that we were willing to sacrifice whole divisions on secondary objectives.

http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Pay-Operation-DOWNFALL-1945-1947-ebook/dp/B0052LJC1K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419038876&sr=1-1&keywords=hell+to+pay

I want to check that out. My tendency would be to make a big excel model of the logistics.

Since it is far from the field that pays my bills, I will probably never get to it.

[Gusington]

Just started A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro.

[Kushan]

I'm halfway through the last Game of Thrones book. After that I don't know. Given my current love affair with EUIV I'm looking for something about that period; 100 years war, War of the Roses, 30 Years War, Habsburgs Dynasty, Italian Wars, etc. Anyone have any recommendations?

[Greybriar]

I am reading The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Mark Bowden.

[OJsDad]

I'm halfway through the last Game of Thrones book. After that I don't know. Given my current love affair with EUIV I'm looking for something about that period; 100 years war, War of the Roses, 30 Years War, Habsburgs Dynasty, Italian Wars, etc. Anyone have any recommendations?

Probably not what you're looking for, but you could give these a try.  Pretty quick reads.

http://www.unitedstatesofvinland.com/

[Pinetree]

Just started Sacrifice - book 5 of the Red Gambit series by Colin Gee.

[Shelldrake]

I just finished Cain at Gettysburg by Ralph Peters. Just as good as The Killer Angels IMO.

[Airborne Rifles]

I just finished Cain at Gettysburg by Ralph Peters. Just as good as The Killer Angels IMO.

I enjoyed that one. I really liked Meade finally getting a fair shake in a civil war book.

[Skwerl]

Compendium: An Expedition Into the Rock 'n' Roll Underworld - Julian Cope

[mirth]

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

http://www.amazon.com/Neptunes-Inferno-U-S-Navy-Guadalcanal/dp/0553385127