What are you reading ?
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The Martian is an excellent book. The movie is pretty good as well, considering the constraints of the media.
Currently reading the Haynes' Manual for Heathrow Airport - rather disappointing in that it reads like an extended press release arguing for the third runway, with constant reminders that LHR is running at 99% capacity....
Currently reading the Haynes' Manual for Heathrow Airport - rather disappointing in that it reads like an extended press release arguing for the third runway, with constant reminders that LHR is running at 99% capacity....
Paul
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Finished today - after several enjoyable months of reading taken in small doses thanks to the superb organization of the book.jRatz wrote:David Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace, The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East.
Probably one of the best books I have ever read; a very well-organized and written history of a complex subject that is a precursor to world problems today.
Cannot recommend too highly.
Starting James McPherson's The War that Forged a Nation, Why the Civil War Still Matters. I have read other works by him, including the 1989 Pulitzer Battle Cry of Freedom and am looking forward to this.
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Wandering around the charity shops in town and found 'Wings of the Luftwaffe' by Capt. Eric Brown for the princely sum of £2-50!. Snapped it up as it looks a good book and it is by Capt Brown, and also considering the GB to come I thought it would be a 'source of good ideas' book.
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A good find that!MarkyM607 wrote:Wandering around the charity shops in town and found 'Wings of the Luftwaffe' by Capt. Eric Brown for the princely sum of £2-50!. Snapped it up as it looks a good book and it is by Capt Brown, and also considering the GB to come I thought it would be a 'source of good ideas' book.
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John Keegan's World War II - so far, an excellent précis of the factors leading to the war.
Paul
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Just finished a superb sci-fi thriller - The Martian, by Andy Weir.
Yes, this is the book that the movie is based on. I have not seen the movie (yet), but I highly recommend you read the book before seeing the movie. I was reading on a kindle and could not stop when I got into the last 20% and the final 10% for sure.
Yes, this is the book that the movie is based on. I have not seen the movie (yet), but I highly recommend you read the book before seeing the movie. I was reading on a kindle and could not stop when I got into the last 20% and the final 10% for sure.
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Hmmm, I have, and have read, about 7-8 of his books, but not that one - I may have to get it as he is one of my favorites.PaulBradley wrote:John Keegan's World War II - so far, an excellent précis of the factors leading to the war.
EDIT: that's 7-8 not 78 of his books.
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It was written in 1989, believe it or not, and I hadn't read it either, thinking I'd read all there was to read in general histories of WWII... However, I have enjoyed and been absorbed by his first couple of chapters on the causation.
Oh, and the proper title is The Second World War, not World War II....
Oh, and the proper title is The Second World War, not World War II....
Paul
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Celtic Mythology - Geddes & Grosset
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Just finished a couple of books on the 3rd Ypres campaign during ww1, "Passchendaele, the sacrificial ground" & "Passchendaele, the anatomy of a tragedy", the first a good over view, the second with a focus on the New Zealand Division. Oct 12 1917 marked the largest loss of life by New Zealanders on any one day ever, in the 1st Battle of Passchendaele. Having visited the area a little under two years ago, it was all especially poignant.
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I am continuing a WW1-centered read encompassing (what was) the Turkish Empire to (what was the British Empire) India, with all spots in between and including the southern Russia (Transcaucasia, Transcaspia) and China. In short, Central Asia. Very relevant to today also.
Having just finished Peter Hopkirk's "The Great Game", I have started his "Like Hidden Fire".
Having just finished Peter Hopkirk's "The Great Game", I have started his "Like Hidden Fire".
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Two Sides of the Moon - by astronaut David Scott and Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
I bought it over ten years ago and read it then but decided to read it again. It essentially covers the spaceflight career of the two individuals and the original suspicion and rivalry of the two programmes which softened when the Apollo Soyuz test project got underway in 1972. Scott was part of the planning team for ASTP and Leonov, of course, was one of the Soviet crew members.
I bought it over ten years ago and read it then but decided to read it again. It essentially covers the spaceflight career of the two individuals and the original suspicion and rivalry of the two programmes which softened when the Apollo Soyuz test project got underway in 1972. Scott was part of the planning team for ASTP and Leonov, of course, was one of the Soviet crew members.
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Germania, Simon Winder. A political history of what became Germany from Roman times to 1933. A better read than it sounds!
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Older book. The Aviator by Ernest Gann. Imagine ILS approaches based on hand written notes. Long before Jeppeson.
Besting 60 years of mediocre building of average kits in the stand off scale
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On a lighter note, I've just finished books 1 and 2 of Danny Baker's autobiography; very, very entertaining stuff and well worth a read just for the laugh out loud moments and the descriptions of London in the early sixties and later
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