What are you reading ?
- Stamford
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What are you reading ?
At the moment it´s "The Man Behind the Bridge - Colonel Toosey and the River Kwai" by Peter Davies.
The film was critisized for portraying Mr Toosey in a poor light and this man saved many lives in terrible circumstances by making the best of the situation. Well worth a read.
The film was critisized for portraying Mr Toosey in a poor light and this man saved many lives in terrible circumstances by making the best of the situation. Well worth a read.
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Re: What are you reading?
chariots of fire : tanks and tank crews - philip kaplan
lots of nice ref pics about tanks and crew since ww1
lots of nice ref pics about tanks and crew since ww1
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Re: What are you reading?
Lost Moon by James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger Houghton-Mifflin Publishers about Apollo 13
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Re: What are you reading?
Just finished Black Swan Green by David Mitchell and started PopCo by Scarlett Thomas. No nothing to do with aeroplanes....
OK I've a Sea Vixen profile by Richard A Franks on the go too
OK I've a Sea Vixen profile by Richard A Franks on the go too
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Re: What are you reading?
No Angel. A biography of Bernie Ecclestone.
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Narayan
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
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Re: What are you reading?
Finishing up the Avenger Files by Andrew Pixley. To read book pile: 36 Hour Day ( caring
for family members with Alzheimers), Airfix handbook by James May, The Boys book of
Airfix by Arthur Ward, The Airfix book of Scale Modeling by Jonathan Mock. Lyell
for family members with Alzheimers), Airfix handbook by James May, The Boys book of
Airfix by Arthur Ward, The Airfix book of Scale Modeling by Jonathan Mock. Lyell
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Re: What are you reading?
Just last night finished a book sent to me by my dad, Black Saturday, about the sinking of the Royal Oak off Scapa flow in 1939, allegedly by a U boat, U-47.
Very interesting and certainly casts much doubt on the german propoganda machines claims, theres certainly a heap of extensive doctoring going on with sub log books and naval records
Very interesting and certainly casts much doubt on the german propoganda machines claims, theres certainly a heap of extensive doctoring going on with sub log books and naval records
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Re: What are you reading?
U-boat 977 by Heinz Schaeffer, http://uboat.net/boats/u977.htm; Last time I read it was years ago, a good read on the training, operations and life on U Boats, and their epic journey to Argentina at the wars end.
I've just finished a Leo Kessler U-boat story "Fire in the West", started off well but just a blah ending, Spitfires with green glowing AI screens shooting down V1's fired at New York city was just a bit much for me, so I needed to read something real..
Cheers
Jim
I've just finished a Leo Kessler U-boat story "Fire in the West", started off well but just a blah ending, Spitfires with green glowing AI screens shooting down V1's fired at New York city was just a bit much for me, so I needed to read something real..
Cheers
Jim
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Bill Clinton's autobiography and Escort.
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Re: What are you reading?
3 things -- I usually only keep one fiction & one non-fiction going together but I have a review to do.
For a review: Mushroom's AFVs in Irish Service since 1922.
Historical: The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France 1940, by Robert Doughty. This is a follow-on to his critically acclaimed by hard to find, Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine 1919-1939, which I just finished. Yes I am on a Fall of France kick right now ...
For Fun, I've gotten into Steampunk, and just started Steampunk an anthology edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer.
For a review: Mushroom's AFVs in Irish Service since 1922.
Historical: The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France 1940, by Robert Doughty. This is a follow-on to his critically acclaimed by hard to find, Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine 1919-1939, which I just finished. Yes I am on a Fall of France kick right now ...
For Fun, I've gotten into Steampunk, and just started Steampunk an anthology edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer.
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Re: What are you reading?
'At dawn we slept' by the late Gordan prange.
Excellent book on the pearl harbor plan, attack and aftermath.
Excellent book on the pearl harbor plan, attack and aftermath.
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I highly recommend this one too. He was the historical advisor for the film Tora! Tora! Tora!Chris wrote:'At dawn we slept' by the late Gordan prange.
Excellent book on the pearl harbor plan, attack and aftermath.
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Re: What are you reading?
Aircraft in Profile Volume 11 (#223 - 234), that I picked up at our local second hand bookstore last week.
Armed Rovers by Roy C Nesbit - RAF Beaufighter/Beaufort ops in the Med, WWII
The latest issues of Flypast and Aeroplane
I'm waiting for the next in the Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson; I have it on hold at the Library, but the guy ahead of me must be a really slooooow reader........
Armed Rovers by Roy C Nesbit - RAF Beaufighter/Beaufort ops in the Med, WWII
The latest issues of Flypast and Aeroplane
I'm waiting for the next in the Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson; I have it on hold at the Library, but the guy ahead of me must be a really slooooow reader........
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За демократію і незалежний Україну
"For Democracy and a Free Ukraine"
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Re: What are you reading?
Isn´t that the same publication?flakmonkey wrote:Bill Clinton's autobiography and Escort.
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Re: What are you reading?
One has more pictures.
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