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Post by menacussecundus on Jan 4, 2023 12:15:53 GMT
Just finished 'The Burning Road' - quite a good read, and I am changing pace with 'Longitude' by Dava Sobel - the story of how accurate Longitude calculation was developed in the 18th century. Cheers A long time since I last read that, but a fascinating account - given added interest by the fact that the Greenwich Observatory is a half hour's stroll away.
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Post by gregorius on Jan 6, 2023 0:10:20 GMT
Last night I started on Jeremy Black's France, a Short History, gifted to me by David Lawrence, aka Macbeth.
Cheers,
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Post by macbeth on Jan 9, 2023 0:38:23 GMT
A short train trip to Sydney allowed me to finish off 'Longitude' which was a fascinating read, and then in short order I read 'Fighting Sail' the Osprey Wargamne set in the age of sail.
Once ensconced at the hotel I started Helen Castor's "She Wolves: the Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth" and I am a little over halfway through this tome. Loving it - so far she's covered Empress Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine. I am just getting to the good bits about Isabella (Edward II's queen) and the final bio is of Margaret of Anjou (a personal favourite of mine).
Cheers
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Post by menacussecundus on Jan 9, 2023 8:08:40 GMT
A short train trip to Sydney allowed me to finish off 'Longitude' which was a fascinating read, and then in short order I read 'Fighting Sail' the Osprey Wargamne set in the age of sail. Once ensconced at the hotel I started Helen Castor's "She Wolves: the Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth" and I am a little over halfway through this tome. Loving it - so far she's covered Empress Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine. I am just getting to the good bits about Isabella (Edward II's queen) and the final bio is of Margaret of Anjou (a personal favourite of mine). Cheers Dr Castor also presented the BBC television series based on her book which is well worth a look if you can track it down.
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Post by ammianus on Jan 10, 2023 0:00:01 GMT
Áedán of the Gaels: King of Scots by Keith Coleman. Hope to soon receive: Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the Northby Gordon Noble, Nicholas Evans
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Post by ammianus on Jan 10, 2023 22:48:28 GMT
Defending Rome: The Masters of the Soldiers: the Late Roman Empire at war.
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nat
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Post by nat on Jan 12, 2023 19:47:36 GMT
Received a copy of The Sassanian Empire at War by Michael J Decker (2022) for Christmas. The style is frustrating at times but I don't know of many other books in that space. Any suggestions?
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Post by timurilank on Jan 12, 2023 22:10:48 GMT
Received a copy of The Sassanian Empire at War by Michael J Decker (2022) for Christmas. The style is frustrating at times but I don't know of many other books in that space. Any suggestions? I prefer “ The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 236-363’ by M.H. Dodgeon and S.N.C. Lieu, Rutledge Publishers. A second volume covering the Persian Wars AD363-628 is also available.
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Post by nat on Jan 13, 2023 15:50:58 GMT
A second volume covering the Persian Wars AD363-628 is also available.
That second volume looks interesting. Thanks!
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Post by carll on Jan 13, 2023 21:57:26 GMT
Thank you nat and timurilank, I had forgotten about The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 236-363, (read long ago) so I shall seek these out. I am enjoying Rose Mary Sheldon's "Rome's Wars in Parthia / Blood in the Sand" and its interesting to see how some of our modern knowledge about these wars is often down to just fragments that have survived of Roman histories; and that these histories had their own bias, in ter,s of being pro or anti each Roman General or 'explaining' Roman defeats in terms of barbarian deceptions!! CarLL
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Post by macbeth on Jan 14, 2023 20:52:54 GMT
I finished "She Wolves" earlier this week and then started on another of the Routledge Warfare and History series - "War in the Early Modern World 1450-1815" a series of essays edited by Jeremy Black on the transitions in warfare across the world. Quite engaging.
Cheers
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Post by hodsopa on Jan 14, 2023 21:52:03 GMT
Nelson: a dream of glory (John Sugden). Today Richard Pulley recommended a different Nelson biography but this is 800 pages x 2 volumes so I will plug away.
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Post by timurilank on Jan 14, 2023 21:52:07 GMT
Thank you nat and timurilank, I had forgotten about The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 236-363, (read long ago) so I shall seek these out. I am enjoying Rose Mary Sheldon's "Rome's Wars in Parthia / Blood in the Sand" and its interesting to see how some of our modern knowledge about these wars is often down to just fragments that have survived of Roman histories; and that these histories had their own bias, in ter,s of being pro or anti each Roman General or 'explaining' Roman defeats in terms of barbarian deceptions!! CarLL CarLL,
Back to the topic of the Parthian, I would recommend George Rawlinson’s Parthia from Forgotten Books. Reading this again, I am finding interesting conflicts other than those against Rome.
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Post by carll on Jan 15, 2023 20:52:47 GMT
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Post by ammianus on Jan 17, 2023 17:27:28 GMT
Coronado's Well-Equipped Army: The Spanish Invasion of the American Southwest by John M. Hutchins
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