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Post by ammianus on Jan 3, 2022 0:01:14 GMT
Rereading Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire by John Michael O'Flynn.
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Post by paulisper on Jan 3, 2022 10:27:28 GMT
I’ve succumbed and purchased, at half price, Dan Jones’s ‘Powers & Thrones’. Also, re-reading Pen & Sword’s ‘The Wars of Alexander’s Successors’ after a previous attempt dried up 😆
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Post by timurilank on Jan 5, 2022 19:45:10 GMT
Ordered two books of the Hussite trilogy from Andrzej Sapkowski; The Tower of Fools and Warriors of God.
Should be interesting, Bohemia 1420 and the “end of the world is near”.
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Post by macbeth on Jan 6, 2022 5:43:57 GMT
Over the Christmas break I finished off 'War and Society in Imperial Rome' and then for some light reading I read the 2nd and 3rd books of the 'Unauthorised History of Australia' --> "True Girt" and "Girt Nation". Both very funny and informative. Much more interesting than the Australian History I learned back in junior high school.
After that I moved back to the Routledge Warfare and Society series with Spencer C. Tuckers 'Vietnam' a history of the Vietnam war but including a chapter on early Vietnam, one on the French Wars and finally a chapter on the Vietnam/Cambodia and Vietnam/China conflicts in the 80s. All up a great read.
The next piece of holiday reading was 'China Safari' by Serge Michel which is an investigative journalists analysis of China's investments in Africa. Really interesting.
With that done I am now partway through another of the Routledge series 'Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa 1830-1914' by Bruce Vandervort.
Cheers
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Post by martin on Jan 6, 2022 9:29:43 GMT
Warlord’s Gold, by Michael Arnold. ECW series, following the adventures of Captain Stryker (Royalist).
Currently at Basing House, with Waller’s army just arrived on the doorstep. There are a LOT of local references in this, and I guess it’s cos the author lives about 10 miles from me. Nicely written stuff (heralded as ‘the Sharpe of the ECW’).
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Post by gregorius on Jan 9, 2022 5:33:25 GMT
I fairly breezed through Sharpe's Assassin. Definitely no surprises regarding plotlines and characters. It all felt rather comfortable returning to the adventures of Harper and Sharpe. Macbeth, aka David Lawrence, lent me 2 books by Steve Tibble dealing with the crusader kingdom. First up is The Crusader Armies. This is a particularly new take on warfare in the Latin Levant. I'm certainly enjoying it. Cheers, Today I finished The Crusader Armies. I cannot recommend this book too highly. It takes a very fresh look at wafare in the Latin Levant from the foundation of the various Crusader principalities through to the battle of Hattin. I can seeing it becoming the go-to volume on crusading warfare. Based on his first book I'm looking forward to reading Tibble's The Crusader Strategy. Cheers, After a substantial break from reading I've finally started on The Crusader Strategy. I'm about a third of the way through and I must say that it is just as good as The Crusader Armies. Cheers,
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Post by macbeth on Jan 11, 2022 21:09:32 GMT
I finished "Wars of Imperial Conquest In Africa" earlier this week and thoroughly enjoyed it. Really informative and easy to read.
Continuing on with the Routledge series I am now a few pages into
"Modern Insurgencies and Counter Insurgenies - Guerrillas and their Opponents since 1750" by E. W. Beckett
Cheers
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Post by timurilank on Jan 11, 2022 21:53:38 GMT
This afternoon, Amazon delivered four books for my reading pleasure.
Books 12 and 13 of the Last Kingdom and books 1 and 2 of the Hussite Trilogy.
Began The Tower of Fools, a fascinating read of life and death in 15th century Bohemia.
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Post by macbeth on Jan 19, 2022 4:23:02 GMT
I finished "Modern Insurgencies and Counter Insurgencies" last night - really good, a little dated (Published in the early 200s) but a wealth of information.
I straight away picked up "Medieval Naval Warfare 1000 - 1500" by Susan Rose - another in the Warfare and History series.
Cheers
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Post by ammianus on Jan 22, 2022 2:50:21 GMT
Rereading Patricians and Emperors: The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire by Ian Hughes; Stilicho, Aetius, Ricimer, Marcellinus, Gundobad, Orestes and Odoacer. What a cast of characters!
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Post by macbeth on Jan 25, 2022 12:29:17 GMT
Today I finished 'Medieval Naval Warfare 1000-1500'
A really good read
Cheers
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Post by ammianus on Jan 26, 2022 2:06:23 GMT
I hope to be reading Constantius III: Rome's Lost Hope by Ian Hughes shortly; ordered today. (keep writing Ian!)
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Post by timurilank on Jan 26, 2022 8:08:48 GMT
I hope to be reading Constantius III: Rome's Lost Hope by Ian Hughes shortly; ordered today. (keep writing Ian!) I missed this one. It is now placed on my list.
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Post by sonic on Jan 26, 2022 20:01:23 GMT
I hope to be reading Constantius III: Rome's Lost Hope by Ian Hughes shortly; ordered today. (keep writing Ian!) Do my best ...
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Post by macbeth on Jan 29, 2022 8:33:40 GMT
After finishing 'Medieval Naval Warfare' I had a little nostalgia kick and read the 2005 reprint of the first 12 Issues of "The Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society" which turned out to be an easy read and I flew through over a couple of days. It brought back some memories of spotty teenage Macbeth playing Traveller back last century. I am now just shy of a quarter of the way into 'The Military Collapse of the Ming Dynasty' by Kenneth Swope. This is a really good narrative history of the end of the Ming from Military History perspective. Cheers
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