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Post by Cromwell on Jul 7, 2017 8:39:07 GMT
Just about to start "Cromwells War Machine' by Keith Roberts. It is a study of how the New Model Army was raised, trained, organised and used. Written with a little insider info from yourself, Mr Cromwell ?? Martin Okay I am getting on in years and had a hard paper round as a kid but I am not that old! I just look it!
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Post by gregorius on Jul 8, 2017 0:02:21 GMT
I've just started on Christian Cameron's HYW trilogy. He seems to be using the same narration device that he used in his Persian Wars saga. Cheers, I'm about 20% through this book and just completed the description of the battle of Poitiers. The description is quite vivid and the effect of the arrow storm is a bit at odds to my expectations. Really enjoying this read. Cheers,
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Post by macbeth on Jul 10, 2017 22:06:29 GMT
So I finished off "The Welsh Kings" this morning. It was interesting but hard going trying to keep track of all the myriad multisylliballic Celtic names (both personal and territorial).
Last night I took delivery of the last of Angus Donald's Outlaw Chronicles and also Norman Davies book "White Eagle, Red Star" about the Russo Polish war. I started that today
cheers
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Post by martin on Jul 11, 2017 7:51:22 GMT
So I finished off "The Welsh Kings" this morning. cheers Sounds like a comment by Edward I !!
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Post by macbeth on Jul 11, 2017 22:52:20 GMT
So I finished off "The Welsh Kings" this morning. cheers Sounds like a comment by Edward I !! Based on what he said leaving Scotland I don't think he would be so polite as my quote
Reading the book did make me want to organise some sort of Welsh v English style campaign but I think it would be better done in "Lion Rampart" than in DBA.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Jul 17, 2017 0:55:24 GMT
After "The Welsh Kings" I had a change of pace with Norman Davies' book on the Russo-Polish war "White Eagle, Red Star" which was a cracking read.
I am now partway through "The Welsh Wars of Independence" by David Moore
Cheers
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Post by timurilank on Jul 26, 2017 21:53:07 GMT
I have started reading the Armies of the Caliphs by Hugh Kennedy. This book is frequently mentioned as a reference for most of the Muslim armies directly following the conquest era; this covers the time frame of the Black Banner project quite well (Umayyad/Abbasid).
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Post by macbeth on Jul 26, 2017 23:34:31 GMT
Yesterday while waiting for the younger of the little warbands at her Gymnastics class I took a brief holiday from "The Welsh Wars of Independence" and started reading "The Bar Kochba War" by Lindsay Powell a recent acquisition. This is an Osprey Campaign book and gives quite a good commentary on the war.
Many years ago I read a novelisation of the war "Son of a Star" by Andrew Meisels and enjoyed it so much that I bought and built up a Jewish Revolt army.
Cheers
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Post by timurilank on Aug 3, 2017 6:06:50 GMT
I finished the Armies of the Caliphate and started ‘Knights and Peasants, The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside’ by Nicholas Wright. While not a long read it does give an in depth look at the period between major battles; the frontier between French and English forces, the raiding done by both sides, the peasantry caught in between and their resistance. This will certainly prompting a number of ideas for a medieval campaign.
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Post by macbeth on Aug 3, 2017 7:09:52 GMT
Last night I finished "The Welsh Wars of Independence" - not a bad read but it was rife with simple typos, did not always keep a straight narrative and of course there were all those complex Welsh names. Still it was an even handed analysis of the ongoing relationship/conflict between Wales and England. I am now reading "Wings of the Storm" by Giles Kristian - the conclusion to his "Rise of Sigurd" trilogy Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Aug 7, 2017 0:00:09 GMT
So I sailed through "Wings of the Storm" over the last 4 days and put it down on Sunday. Loved it Next to read is the fourth in Ian Ross's "Twilight of Empire" series "The Mask of Command". I read the first few pages while the computer started up. My tax return came in, and whilst most of the $$ are reserved for the high maintenance (not so) little warbands I did have a minor splurge on The Book Depository and Khurusan Miniatures Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Aug 10, 2017 4:26:25 GMT
I have now finished "The Mask of Command". This series keeps getting better, although it seems a publisher's agent has nobbled the cover artist. After three books with Late Roman Style imagery on the covers, now in the background you can see troop in Lorica Segmenta and with the rectangular Scutum. The public wants its Romans to look like Romans after all cheers
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Post by macbeth on Aug 13, 2017 23:04:34 GMT
After "Mask of Command" I picked up the 8th and final book in Angus Donald's "Outlaw" Chronicles "The Death of Robin Hood" which takes Robin and Alan through the final year of King John's reign and the French invasion - cumulating in the battle of Lincoln. Quite a good read all up.
I then picked up Ross Kemp's "Pirates" a short slightly sensationalised account of modern piracy which I finished off on Sunday waiting for the wargames club to open up.
Today I have started Richard Humble's "The Fall of Saxon England"
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Aug 17, 2017 23:05:18 GMT
Yesterday I finished "The Fall of Saxon England" - it was a good read, very much an apologist for the Norman Conquest but did give the other points of view a fair hearing.
When I got home from work my large parcel from Book Depository was waiting so I was spoiled for choice as to my next book. In the end I carried on the 1066 theme with Daniel Mersey's "A Wargamer's Guide to 1066 and the Norman Conquest".
Cheers
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Post by gregorius on Aug 18, 2017 0:16:55 GMT
David I'd be interested in your views on the Mersey book.
Cheers,
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