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Post by timurilank on Jul 13, 2020 7:15:08 GMT
I have started War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell and reminded myself, the Strathclyde have yet to be baptised. All the ingredients are ready, the Picts, the Welsh, Vikings, Middle Anglo-Saxon and now Strathclyde. A return is planned after my African excursion.
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Post by timurilank on Jul 16, 2020 20:52:57 GMT
I have started War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell and reminded myself, the Strathclyde have yet to be baptised. All the ingredients are ready, the Picts, the Welsh, Vikings, Middle Anglo-Saxon and now Strathclyde. A return is planned after my African excursion. Finished the War of the Wolf, great story and offers many interesting modelling ideas. A mad priest with a pair of angels and Bebbanburg’s skull gate come to mind.
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Post by macbeth on Jul 17, 2020 0:06:01 GMT
This morning I came to the end of "Indonesia's Secret War" - not a bad read, somewhat dated but still relevant as the conflict continues.
For a change of pace I have now started another of the Akashic Noir series - this time 'Baltimore Noir'
Cheers
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Post by goragrad on Jul 21, 2020 5:35:02 GMT
Have downloaded a few books from the Project Gutenberg site. Works by Seinkowicz, Weyman, and Shellabarger among others.
Just finished Shellabarger's 'The Chevalier Bayard' last week. From reading Shellabarger's regard for 'The King's Cavalier' and 'Prince of Foxes' I was aware of Seigneur Bayard, but had not realized that he had written a biography.
A bit of a hagiography, but an interesting read and some background on the Italian Wars.
Also am going thru and reading/rereading some of my Ospreys - Vienna 1683, The Landsknechts, Rome's Enemies. As with certain magazines one in the past had not necessarily read all of the text - just viewed the 'illustrations...'
Was a bit surprised with the Vienna book. The author went on for a bit about the Leopold's financial problems and their impact on raising forces for the defense of Vienna and totally ignored the contribution by Pope Leo to the Poles to finance their support. In addition to persuading Charles of Lorraine and others to join the relief force. The author also mentioned Fr. Marco d'Aviano only in passing. Other histories give him rather more prominence as he was a principle advisor to Emperor Leopold and also mediated disputes that arose between leaders of the relief force.
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Post by macbeth on Jul 21, 2020 23:40:46 GMT
I have been reading two books of short stories over the past week "Baltimore Noir' from the Akashic Noir series and then on Friday I also started "Those Dark Places" by Johnathan Hicks having seen somewhere that Osprey is bringing out a Roleplaying Game based on his Science Fiction setting. I saw the game and this book of his stories at reasonable prices on The Book Depository so added them to my wishlist and ordered the short stories.
Both of these books were excellent. Hicks' collection is an eclectic mix of near and distant future stories - many of them reminiscent of the Traveller Universe (or the Firefly/Serenity Setting for those that are too young for the old late 70s/early 80s RPG) and I powered through both alternating between the two.
I finished Hicks last night and the last chapters from Baltimore Noir over breakfast.
I have now just started the latest in Simon Scarrow's "Eagles of the Empire" series - "Traitors of Rome".
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Jul 28, 2020 0:23:49 GMT
Yesterday I finished 'Traitors of Rome' another brilliant Macro and Cato story from Scarrow.
For a change of pace I am back into the Akashic Noir series and picked up 'Seattle Noir' last night. I am about 2/3 of the way through and the stories have all been good.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Jul 28, 2020 7:25:05 GMT
I powered through 'Seattle Noir' good read.
If nothing new from Book Depository rocks up today then I will be diving into 'The Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise' by Abraham Eraly
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Jul 28, 2020 23:10:41 GMT
No new packages last night, so 'The Mughal World' has now been started.
It is heavily peppered with quotes through the text. The introduction taking the reader from Babur to Aurengzeb was a good summary of the dynasty.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Aug 9, 2020 23:02:41 GMT
I finished 'The Mughal World' on the weekend and then decided to dive back into the Akashic Noir series. I finished 'Sydney Noir' on Sunday morning and powered through most of 'Chicago Noir', I read the last story this morning.
Next up is volume 2 of 'Chicago Noir' (the classics).
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Aug 13, 2020 0:01:12 GMT
This morning I finished the last two stories in 'Chicago Noir 2 (the Classics).
Some very interesting stories there.
Last night I received a package from Book Depository - and it included the new Osprey book 'The Normans In Italy 1016-1194' which I have just started.
Cheers
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Post by larryr on Aug 13, 2020 14:28:54 GMT
Just started "Rome's Gothic Wars" by Michael Kulikowski. Interesting writing style.
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Post by timurilank on Aug 13, 2020 15:02:42 GMT
Just started "Rome's Gothic Wars" by Michael Kulikowski. Interesting writing style. I have Kulikowski’s book. It presents a nice overview but for more depth, I would add ‘History of the Goths’ by Herwig Wolfram.
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Post by larryr on Aug 13, 2020 16:07:22 GMT
Just started "Rome's Gothic Wars" by Michael Kulikowski. Interesting writing style. I have Kulikowski’s book. It presents a nice overview but for more depth, I would add ‘History of the Goths’ by Herwig Wolfram.
Great, thanks for the reference! Is there a book that has any "in depth" discussions about Gothic battles?
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Post by timurilank on Aug 13, 2020 16:45:57 GMT
I have Kulikowski’s book. It presents a nice overview but for more depth, I would add ‘History of the Goths’ by Herwig Wolfram.
Great, thanks for the reference! Is there a book that has any "in depth" discussions about Gothic battles? Kniva’s campaign against the East Romans is covered in Wolfram, but I do not recall any one book describing particular battles in detail. I can recommend ‘Stilicho’ by Ian Hughes as Alaric is well covered.
Starting the Migration to Kingdom project I looked at patterns such as how barbarian armies evolved from one list to another. Studying the Gothic leaders also helped accumulate an e-book list from their sources.
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Post by Baldie on Aug 13, 2020 20:49:37 GMT
Barely read anything at the mo, I keep sticking on audible and falling asleep. Er indoors says she really enjoys waking up in the middle of the night listening to the horrors of Stalingrad or the carnage of the WOTR.
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