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Post by Baldie on Dec 12, 2020 6:44:12 GMT
Just started Russia against Napoleon. Despite my love of playing Russians in as many gaming systems as possible I know surprisingly little about Napoleonic history.
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Post by gregorius on Dec 19, 2020 2:46:48 GMT
Today I finished Dan Jones's book on the Templars. I've now begun Michael J Fulton's Siege Warfare During the Crusades. Hopefully, a great companion for Ian Pain's DBA siege wafare variant.
Cheers,
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Post by macbeth on Dec 23, 2020 7:30:39 GMT
I finished 'Accra Noir' and really enjoyed it
After that I read "A Glorious Age In Africa" which is a brief history of the West Sudanese Empires (Ghana, Mali and Songhay) published by Zenith Publications in the 60s with the stated objective of teaching African History to African Americans - I think it might have been aimed at a younger audience and whilst it was a very brief history I picked up a couple of new facts to regale my opponents with when next I bring my West Sudanese army out on the field.
This morning I started 'The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World' by Rupert Smith
Cheers
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Post by markhinds on Dec 26, 2020 22:34:43 GMT
Question to admin: Shouldn't this be spelled "Who's reading what?"?
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Post by hammurabi70 on Dec 27, 2020 13:50:28 GMT
Question to admin: Shouldn't this be spelled "Who's reading what?"? Yes but literacy was seldom a strong point in ancient cultures.
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Post by goragrad on Dec 28, 2020 7:09:49 GMT
Have still been (intermittently) working my way thru 'The Art of War in Italy 1494-1529.'
Interesting to see battle descriptions from the Italian Wars describing the advancing and redeploying of artillery during the course of battles. One had the impression from (somewhat limited) reading of the Thirty Years War that artillery thru that period was static once initially emplaced.
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Post by timurilank on Dec 28, 2020 8:15:24 GMT
Actually, much earlier.
Jean Bureau and his brother Gaspar, Master Gunner during the reign of Charles VII, reformed the artillery during the revitalisation of the French Army (Ordonnance period). At Formigny (1450) the guns advanced to pound the English position and later the artillery wreaked havoc on Talbot’s assault columns at Castillon (1453). Both battles are worth refighting.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, Volume 1
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Post by ammianus on Dec 29, 2020 22:11:03 GMT
The Last of the Romans Derek Birks (around the time of Aetius)
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Post by timurilank on Jan 2, 2021 11:06:23 GMT
Reading Knights and Peasants, The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside, by Nicholas Wright. It seems the peasantry were constantly at a disadvantage as English foragers plundered the countryside and those French nobles aligned with the English received retribution by having their lands destroyed.
Peasant rebellions were far more frequent than history records. A good read so far.
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Post by macbeth on Jan 4, 2021 5:39:16 GMT
After finishing Ruper Smith's "The Utility of Force" I am still broadening my horizons with "Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West since the Cold War 1971-2017" by Simon Reid-Henry. Both have been quite interesting and informative, but don't help a jot with DBA. Cheers
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Post by timurilank on Jan 4, 2021 22:56:45 GMT
Reading ‘Germany in the later Middle Ages, 1200 – 1500’ by Arthur Hassall, 1908. Style is reminiscent of Charles Oman, adding excellent detail to a broad topic. Useful if you wish to create a medieval campaign.
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Post by gregorius on Jan 22, 2021 22:54:53 GMT
Today I finished Dan Jones's book on the Templars. I've now begun Michael J Fulton's Siege Warfare During the Crusades. Hopefully, a great companion for Ian Pain's DBA siege wafare variant. Cheers, I quite enjoyed Siege Warfare During the Crusades. Now I'm reading something that I first read in my late teens, The Source by James A Michener. For me it still holds up 45 years later. Cheers,
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Post by ammianus on Jan 22, 2021 23:09:31 GMT
Just ordered A Military Life of Constantine the Great Hardcover – by Ian Hughes to quote Amazon: "All of Constantine’s campaigns are narrated and his strategic and tactical decisions analyzed. The organization, strengths and weaknesses of the Roman army he inherited are described and the effect of both his and his predecessors’ reforms discussed. "
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Post by macbeth on Jan 27, 2021 0:13:48 GMT
I took off for the Australia Day Long Weekend to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland with Wf(X) and the (not so) little warbands in tow.
I had just a few pages of "Empire of Democracy" to read when the lift to the airport arrived. So it became a bit of extra baggage. I really enjoyed the book - a social, political and economic history of (primarily) the United States and Western Europe. Fascinating and slightly depressing and ending on a quaint note, the book was finished in 2017 so the epilogue/conclusion could only speculate on the outcomes of the US election at the time. Well worth a read.
With that done I crashed through 'An Atlas of Extinct Countries' by Gideon Defoe, an irreverent and humourous collection of short vignettes about countries that no longer exist - I was finished it the morning after we landed. After that I picked up "Praetorian: The Rise And Fall Of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard" by Guy De La Bedoyere - and I am about two thirds of the way through.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Jan 31, 2021 22:58:13 GMT
I powered through 'Praetorian' and when I'd finished I then picked up "Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War" which was also a fascinating read. This one was done and dusted in 3 days, after which I moved on to "Singapore Noir" another of the Akashik Noir series.
Cheers
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