What are we reading?

nelmsm · December 03, 2016, 11:27:50 PM

Finished the Gettysburg book and now starting The Battle of the Wilderness by Gordon Rhea. For a bit lighter reading on the Kindle I'm reading Braving the Storms which is the third volume of Strengthe What Remains series by Kyle Pratt. I just love a good post apocalyptic series.

Gusington · December 04, 2016, 12:10:45 PM

Wally I have been wanting a I read August 1914 for a long time. How is it?

WallysWorld · December 04, 2016, 05:29:50 PM

Quote from: Gusington on December 04, 2016, 12:10:45 PM
Wally I have been wanting a I read August 1914 for a long time. How is it?

I'm only about thirteen pages into the book so I can't say much about it yet. So far so good though. You get a good feel of life in Imperial Russia in 1914 from what I've read and Tolstoy's writings have played quite a large part in the main character's motivations at least in the beginning.

Gusington · December 04, 2016, 06:21:37 PM

^Thanks Wally!

mirth · December 04, 2016, 06:40:15 PM

Re-reading Castles of Steel now. Can't believe I don't own it already.

Gusington · December 04, 2016, 07:43:42 PM

Why don't you own it?

mirth · December 04, 2016, 07:46:31 PM

Quote from: Gusington on December 04, 2016, 07:43:42 PM
Why don't you own it?

Oversight on my part. Soon to be corrected.

Gusington · December 04, 2016, 08:32:28 PM

Available for a penny!

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0345408780/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1480901512&sr=1-1

mirth · December 04, 2016, 08:36:35 PM

Quote from: Gusington on December 04, 2016, 08:32:28 PM
Available for a penny!

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0345408780/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1480901512&sr=1-1

Meh. I'll buy it new and take the free Prime shipping.

bob48 · December 05, 2016, 06:28:02 AM

I just received 'Dien Bien Phu' today (by Legion Games and via Limey-Yank - thanks Andy :bd:) so I'll be reading 'Hell in a Very Small Place' again.

JasonPratt · December 12, 2016, 04:32:53 PM

Finished Vol 3 (technically Book 2) of Missing 411, and as previously expected it was almost all new material with the occasional, and reasonable, call backs to prior entries for comparison. Vol 4 ("The Devils in the Detail") is following suit so far.

Which is great for book value, though of course terrible for the number of people whose lives have been ruined and/or lost by whatever. :(

Sir Slash · December 13, 2016, 09:56:21 AM

Just finished, "Russia's Last Gasp" by Prit Buttar. The third of 4 books covering WWI's East Front. And another great one full of detail and info mostly covering 1916's Brusilov's Offensive but the Rumanian Campaign as well.

These are my kind of books-- 500 pages plus, lots of battle details, quotes from both sides, and the in's and out's of planning, political maneuvering, and why what didn't work didn't and what might have.

My only niggling complaint is as before, plain, generic maps that don't always fit the fighting going on at the time. Especially tough if you've no general knowledge of Russian geography.

But anyone interested in the time or subject couldn't go wrong in reading this excellent series. Can't wait for number 4.

bob48 · December 13, 2016, 11:44:27 AM

I've only read the first one, which is excellent. Must catch up with the others.

Gusington · December 13, 2016, 07:16:29 PM

Beginning The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth tonight, historical/apocalyptic fiction set during the Norman invasion of England.

BanzaiCat · December 14, 2016, 06:05:56 AM

After finishing that Stalingrad book, I started reading Book 2 of Honor Harrington, but before I went too far into it I instead started Constitution: Book 1 of The Legacy Fleet Trilogy. I grabbed this a long time ago on sale through Amazon for my Kindle and forgot about it (I have a lot of those on my Kindle, heh). It's a pretty good read so far; I'm about four or so chapters in.