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Post by timurilank on Nov 23, 2022 21:13:50 GMT
Only two French regiments wore white uniforms, other French units had made the change to the 1807 blue coat.
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Post by Ainkatsiss on Nov 23, 2022 21:30:55 GMT
Thanks !
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Post by ammianus on Nov 29, 2022 15:47:44 GMT
Rereading: Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C: A Historical Biography by Peter Green
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Post by Ainkatsiss on Nov 29, 2022 17:51:46 GMT
Any of you have good reading advice in french ?
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Post by macbeth on Dec 5, 2022 1:01:21 GMT
After finishing 'The 47 Ronin Story' I powered through "Crime Through Time" a small anthology of Historical Detective Short Stories and am now almost halfway through 'Tales of Norse Mythology' by Helen A. Gueber - a repring of an 19th Century description of mythology (these surface from time to time - I have a 1914 edition of the Egyptian book and at various times have owned others). This one was a Christmas gift from a good friend.
Cheers
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Post by larryr on Dec 5, 2022 19:30:07 GMT
Ancient Greeks at War by Simon Elliot. Pretty good but looking for something deeper!
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Post by ammianus on Dec 6, 2022 19:47:09 GMT
Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC by Philip Matyszak
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Post by Baldie on Dec 11, 2022 7:12:32 GMT
Def need to lose some books. Had loads of books boxed up stored away in the spare room for ages, finally got some bookcases fitted in my hobby study. Got my books out and loaded em up but still have three boxes left. I spent years going round charity shops picking up military related books or action thrillers like Alastair Maxlean's. The wargames rules got first dibs, then stuff like osprey men at arms and finally everything else.
Think it is time to have a cull so the charity shops get back the ones I loaned and sell a few of the better ones. Family and chums kids may get a few, I know one of my nephews asked for toy soldiers and WW2 books for x mass.
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Post by martin on Dec 11, 2022 8:52:46 GMT
Def need to lose some books. > > Think it is time to have a cull so the charity shops get back the ones I loaned and sell a few of the better ones. Doing/did similar….sold quite a few (facebook and ebay) and gave some to the charity shops. Worth taking some to tournaments to offer for sale. Even if it’s at bargain prices it’s better than nowt, and they ‘go to a good home’, as they say. Books can be very cheap to pick up these days, with World of Books, We Buy Books and similar selling very cheap on ebay, so prices 2nd hand aren’t high. (I also put a few more ancient / medieval ones into the prize pot…).
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Post by macbeth on Dec 12, 2022 23:52:36 GMT
During my Epic Road trip over the past 5 days I finished off 'Tales of Norse Mythology' and then picked up 'Windswept and Interesting' by Billy Connolly which took me only a couple of days. After that I read 'Honour - the Roleplaying Game' a Modern Hong Kong Cinematic Fantasy RPG that I bought as a bargain the last time I was in Melbourne. I don't think its mechanisms would hold together particularly well.
As I continue with my task of reading the books I have catalogued since March last year in order of catalogue date I have now just started 'European and Native American Warfare 1675-1815' by Armstrong Starkey, another in the Routledge Warfare and Hisory series.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Dec 18, 2022 22:28:07 GMT
Starkey's book "European and Native American Warfare 2675-1815" was a great read.
I am now about a hundred pages into Adrian Goldsworthy's "The Fort' - where the hero of his 'Vindolanda' trilogy is now on the Danube Frontier just prior to Trajan's Second Dacian War
I am a huge fan of Goldsworthy, both the fiction and the non.
Cheers
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Post by gregorius on Dec 18, 2022 23:13:04 GMT
Starkey's book "European and Native American Warfare 2675-1815" was a great read. I am now about a hundred pages into Adrian Goldsworthy's "The Fort' - where the hero of his 'Vindolanda' trilogy is now on the Danube Frontier just prior to Trajan's Second Dacian War I am a huge fan of Goldsworthy, both the fiction and the non. Cheers David, look out for The City and the yet to be released The Wall as well. Cheers,
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Post by macbeth on Dec 18, 2022 23:28:02 GMT
Starkey's book "European and Native American Warfare 2675-1815" was a great read. I am now about a hundred pages into Adrian Goldsworthy's "The Fort' - where the hero of his 'Vindolanda' trilogy is now on the Danube Frontier just prior to Trajan's Second Dacian War I am a huge fan of Goldsworthy, both the fiction and the non. Cheers David, look out for The City and the yet to be released The Wall as well. Cheers, They are both on my Wishlist Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Dec 28, 2022 4:53:46 GMT
I finished 'The Fort' and am now panting for the release of 'The City' and 'The Wall'. Goldsworthy is an excellent writer.
As I continue through the books I've catalogued the next book on my list (started on Xmas eve) was 'Too the Ends of the Earth' by William Golding. The book was dropped at my doorstep on New Year's Eve last year as a Christmas Present from an old friend. There is 760 odd pages of Regency era nautical fiction as the narrator sails from England to Australia - Kudos to Golding for keeping up the Napoleonic Era prejudices of his main character when he wrote it in the 1980s. I have managed to get halfway (but the narrator has not warmed to me).
On Christmas day I did receive some books as presents including 'Zeus Is A Dick' by Susie Donkin (from the younger of the (Not so) Little Warbands. I took a mild diversion on Xmas day and read this brilliant piece of work by a former writer for 'Horrible Histories' - Greek Mythology presented in the style of Drunk History is quite the good read.
Cheers
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Post by gregorius on Dec 28, 2022 5:10:31 GMT
I finished 'The Fort' and am now panting for the release of 'The City' and 'The Wall'. Goldsworthy is an excellent writer. As I continue through the books I've catalogued the next book on my list (started on Xmas eve) was 'Too the Ends of the Earth' by William Golding. The book was dropped at my doorstep on New Year's Eve last year as a Christmas Present from an old friend. There is 760 odd pages of Regency era nautical fiction as the narrator sails from England to Australia - Kudos to Golding for keeping up the Napoleonic Era prejudices of his main character when he wrote it in the 1980s. I have managed to get halfway (but the narrator has not warmed to me). On Christmas day I did receive some books as presents including 'Zeus Is A Dick' by Susie Donkin (from the younger of the (Not so) Little Warbands. I took a mild diversion on Xmas day and read this brilliant piece of work by a former writer for 'Horrible Histories' - Greek Mythology presented in the style of Drunk History is quite the good read. Cheers David, the City has been released, at least in the Kindle format. I too look forward to the Wall. I'll be starting on the France, a Short History by Jeremy Black very soon. Cheers,
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