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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.
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chariots of fire : tanks and tank crews - philip kaplan

lots of nice ref pics about tanks and crew since ww1 :)
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Lost Moon by James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger Houghton-Mifflin Publishers about Apollo 13
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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 ;-)
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No Angel. A biography of Bernie Ecclestone.

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Finishing up the Avenger Files by Andrew Pixley. To read book pile: 36 Hour Day ( caring
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Airfix by Arthur Ward, The Airfix book of Scale Modeling by Jonathan Mock. :grin: Lyell
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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
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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..

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Bill Clinton's autobiography and Escort.
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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 ...

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'At dawn we slept' by the late Gordan prange.

Excellent book on the pearl harbor plan, attack and aftermath.
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Chris wrote:'At dawn we slept' by the late Gordan prange.

Excellent book on the pearl harbor plan, attack and aftermath.
I highly recommend this one too. He was the historical advisor for the film Tora! Tora! Tora!

The in-laws gave me Billy Bishop's biography for my birthday, written by his son. Well done those in-laws :)
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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........
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flakmonkey wrote:Bill Clinton's autobiography and Escort.
Isn´t that the same publication? :ha:
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One has more pictures.
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