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Post by macbeth on Feb 27, 2017 22:19:04 GMT
Last week I finished Sumption's "Cursed Kings" - it ends with the death of Charles VI having taken us through from the death of Richard II in England including the effective state of civil war in France and the complex negotiations that both sides had with the house of Lancaster (Henry IV and V)
This was an excellent book.
I am now partway through "Collapse" by Jared Diamond
cheers
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Post by macbeth on Feb 27, 2017 22:19:21 GMT
Last week I finished Sumption's "Cursed Kings" - it ends with the death of Charles VI having taken us through from the death of Richard II in England including the effective state of civil war in France and the complex negotiations that both sides had with the house of Lancaster (Henry IV and V)
This was an excellent book.
I am now partway through "Collapse" by Jared Diamond
cheers
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Post by montyburns on Mar 1, 2017 3:31:59 GMT
Now reading Paisanos: The Forgotten Irish Who Changed the Face of Latin America. Tim Fanning. Finished this and while it was good to see something on a pretty obscure topic it always felt like the individual stories I was reading were much more interesting than this book made them. Now reading The Zimmerman Telegram. Barbara Tuchman. |
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Post by Cromwell on Mar 1, 2017 8:04:42 GMT
Just started reading "Wellington in the Peninsula" by Jac Keller. Very good!
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Post by timurilank on Mar 1, 2017 8:18:09 GMT
Just started reading "Wellington in the Peninsula" by Jac Keller. Very good! It is good, also 'Wellington in India' is a must. |
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Post by macbeth on Mar 6, 2017 6:48:41 GMT
Yesterday I finished off "Collapse" an interesting read and well worth the effort
Today I plan to start something lighter - 'The Garden of the Hesperaides' by Lindsey Davis the fourth in her Flavia Alba series
Cheers
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Post by weddier on Mar 6, 2017 18:42:32 GMT
Regarding the Battle of Gettysburg, J. J. Pullen's nonfiction book "The Twentieth Maine" is very readable.
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Post by ammianus on Mar 6, 2017 19:53:16 GMT
Rereading guy Halsall's enjoyable: Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376 - 568; staring the commanders of my Late Imperial, and Patrician Roman armies.
Stilicho, Aetius, Ricimer & Odoacer.
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Post by gregorius on Mar 6, 2017 21:02:20 GMT
Yesterday I finished off "Collapse" an interesting read and well worth the effort Today I plan to start something lighter - 'The Garden of the Hesperaides' by Lindsey Davis the fourth in her Flavia Alba series Cheers It's a great read David. Cheers, |
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Post by macbeth on Mar 7, 2017 3:27:15 GMT
Yesterday I finished off "Collapse" an interesting read and well worth the effort Today I plan to start something lighter - 'The Garden of the Hesperaides' by Lindsey Davis the fourth in her Flavia Alba series Cheers It's a great read David. Cheers, Loving it so far Greg - pity I have to work today or I would just finish the story in a day - but a 90 minute wait for the NRMA after flattening the battery gave me a good inroad  |
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Post by macbeth on Mar 13, 2017 23:20:17 GMT
Greg was right - I really enjoyed "The Graveyard of the Hesperides"
This was finished late on Friday night.
My next book is Jeremy Black's "Beyond the Military Revolution" which is interesting in that it touches on some obscure conflicts giving the political and strategic as well as tactical facets - but it is primarily a light refutation of the standard theory that the 17th Century was a revolution in military theory and practice with the rise of absolutist states with strong central bureaucracies allowing for the expansion of armies into professional forces with a greater emphasis on firepower.
Interesting
cheers
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Post by macbeth on Mar 26, 2017 22:40:56 GMT
On Sunday I finished off "Beyond the Military Revolution" and it remained an interesting read, giving snippets of obscure 17th Century Military History from outside of Europe and contrasting it with the much more widely documented European narrative.
Well worth the read.
Now I am reading "The Blood Star" by Nicholas Guild, the sequel to his book "The Assyrian" - which I read way back in the early 90s. It was a long hard slog to find a reasonably priced copy of the book (bonus - the same publisher, format and cover artist as my original) on the secondhand websites - we follow the main character Tiglah Ashur, the son of Sargon, brother of Esharhaddon as he leaves Assyria in exile but the cover blurb indicates he will return.
So far it is reading well
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Mar 31, 2017 3:41:35 GMT
"The Blood Star" concluded this morning - I really enjoyed it, and am wondering whether to blow the dust of the earlier novel "The Assyrian" and re-read it (it is easily 25 years since I bought it ) Now I am keen to get a Later Sargonid Assyrian and Kushite Egyptian army painted and on the table. (at least until the next book distracts me ) cheers |
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Post by macbeth on Apr 2, 2017 22:35:09 GMT
So on Saturday morning I picked up "The Book of War" by Dwight Jon Zimmerman - it is a series of one page articles about personalities, battles, weapons, etc supposedly pivotal in the development of warfare - roughly chronological. It is not a stretch to read it, I am not learning anything new and there is the odd spelling error or factual issue. Still it has to be a really bad book for me to not finish cheers |
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Post by Antoine on Apr 2, 2017 23:20:48 GMT
Starting the number VIII of the Marius mules series by SJA Turney.
Great novels !!
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