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What are you reading? - 5/21/2002 9:32:28 AM   
Mojo

 

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Status: offline 		In the last couple of weeks I've read Blackhawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once.

I'm currently working on:

Prange's, Miracle at Midway

Layton's, And I was There

Campbell's, Jutland, An Analysis of the Fighting

Toland's, 1918 (again)

Oh and Keyes, Rachel's Holiday and Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume which were recommended to me by a woman friend, errrr, to paraphrase Chris Rock, a woman I haven't slept with yet. I am a sensitive millennium kinda guy after all ;)

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What I'm reading... - 5/21/2002 10:35:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Mojo,
I'm currently reading:
- Eagle Against the Sun, by Ron H. Spector
- Challenge for the Pacific, by Rob Leckie
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks

I'm on a Pacific War reading binge! Although that last one is about people with brain damage.

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Re: What I'm reading... - 5/21/2002 11:18:15 AM   
Mojo

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oggidoggi
[B]Hi Mojo,
I'm currently reading:
- Eagle Against the Sun, by Ron H. Spector
- Challenge for the Pacific, by Rob Leckie
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks

I'm on a Pacific War reading binge! Although that last one is about people with brain damage. [/B][/QUOTE]

Bet there's lots of us reading up on the war in the Pacific with UV just out.

BTW if it's not too personal why the interest in the book by Sacks? As it's a subject I personally have some interest in as well.

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- 5/21/2002 1:02:36 PM   
Oggidoggi

 

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Status: offline 		Hi Mojo,
I'm reading Dr. Sacks' book about brain damage for a report I'm doing in psychology class. Have you ever read this book? It's all about right side brain damage, which affects abstract thought. Scariest book I've ever read! Strange to think that so much of what we perceive as reality, can be altered by a physical change in our brains. Doesn't seem right somehow!

I was also recently on a baseball book binge and read:
- The New Bill James Baseball Abstract, by guess who?
- If I Never Get Back, by D. Brock
- The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, by W.P. Kinsella
- Shoeless Joe, by W.P. Kinsella

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- 5/21/2002 2:24:10 PM   
NaKATPase

 

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From: Madison, WI
Status: offline 		Just finished:
"Embracing Defeat" -- Dower (Interesting perspective on Japan during American occupation 1945-50.)
"The Alternative Third World War: 1985-2035" -- Jackson (Not quite as engaging as Hackett's "Third World War", but interesting given certain current events.)

Just Starting:
"The Janissaries" --Goodwin (I was told this is quite good, but I have yet to finish the first chapter, so I can't say myself)

Perpetually Studying:
"Molecular Cell Biology" --Lodish et al.
"Bible" -- God
(currently not sure which of these is more important ;))

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- 5/21/2002 10:43:49 PM   
scimitar

 

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From: Belgium
Status: offline 		Since january, I've read: "Lords of the Rings" trilogy; Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" and "The Bear and the Dragon"; actually reading "La campagne de l'armée belge en 1940" (The campaign of the Belgian army, 1940).

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- 5/22/2002 4:06:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Currently reading:

[B]Stopped at Stalingrad[/B]
The luftwaffe and Hitler's defeat in the east 1942-1943 by Joel s.A. Hayward.

[B]From Normandy to the Ruhr[/B]
With the 116th Panzer Division in World War II by Heinz Günther Guderian


As always mostly WWII stuff...

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- 5/22/2002 5:06:47 AM   
Les_the_Sarge_9_1

 

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Status: offline 		I am reading the latest by Terry Brooks of his Shanara series.

Any of my military fiction though is sufficiently old, that only someone in their 30's would have been alive when it was sold.
I read them on occasion. I am very partial to my collection of old dusty war novels.

I read a lot of text books (I was a very boring teenager once too).

Recent reads would be the latest books from the world of Dune By Frank's son and a co author.

I read Maclean's magazine so I can remain pissed off regularly. And I read Finewoodworking and Canadian Homeworkshop so I can continue the illusion I still have a chance of being a cabinetmaker.

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- 5/22/2002 5:13:53 AM   
screamer

 

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Status: offline 		reading now?? not much only comics and ww1/2 books on the toilet. i am halfway dune by frank herbert but ive lost the book.
and started reading Das Boot by lothar gunther bucheim for the second time.

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- 5/22/2002 7:31:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm currently re-reading Shelby Foote's "The Civil War - A Narrative". And just out of curiosity, have any of you read any of the Casca series by Barry Sadler?

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- 5/22/2002 7:35:53 AM   
Mojo

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dave Briggs
[B]I'm currently re-reading Shelby Foote's "The Civil War - A Narrative". And just out of curiosity, have any of you read any of the Casca series by Barry Sadler? [/B][/QUOTE]

Haven't read anything by Sadler but I've read Foote's 3 volumes several times. Excellent

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- 5/22/2002 7:57:09 AM   
Les_the_Sarge_9_1

 

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Status: offline 		I have read the entire Casca series including the most recent release.

Very fun reading. But they are basically "Harelquin novels for men". ie, they are basic simple easy fiction.

Of course that didn't stop me from enjoying them.

I also loved my Leo Kessler novels.

And the Vietnam Ground Zero series was truely fun reading.

I kept the Kessler novels, but sold the others. It seemed a shame. But the reality that I would not be reading them again made keeping them silly.

I have more books to read than years in my lifetime unfortunately.

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- 5/22/2002 11:51:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hitler Moves East '41-'43 Vol. I

Adolf Hitler: Hubris (book one of a two book biography)

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- 5/23/2002 3:19:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Im reading Shelby Foote's "The Civil War - A Narrative" for the first time.


Ive recently finished all 4 volumes of R. E. Lee by D. S. Freemen
The "Guns of August"
"The Killer Angels"
"A soldiers story"
Guerrilla Warfare : Che Guevara
A very interesting look into revoultionary tactics authored by Che himself.

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- 5/23/2002 5:25:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm currently reading(or read in the last months)

-The great strategy of roman empire,by Edward N.Luttwak
-Monte Cassino; by Walter Nardini
-Scipio:a greater than Napoleon;B.H.Liddel Hart
-Panzer Leader,by Heinz Guderian
-Lost Victories,by Field Marshal E.Mainstein
-Rommel's papers,by Rommel
-the western Way of war,by V.Hanson
-Paul Carrell:Opera omnia
-The other side of the hill,by B.H.Liddell Hart

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- 5/24/2002 7:29:31 AM   
AlvinS

 

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Status: offline 		I'm currently reading [U]Death Traps [/U] [I]The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II[/I] By Belton Y. Cooper

Excellent book. Its the memoir of an ordinance officer who was responsible for recovering and repairing damaged tanks. I never realized what a monumental task that was.

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- 5/24/2002 11:03:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		[U]Following the Equator[/U] by Mark Twain. Always liked his works.

[U]The Fencing Master[/U] by Perez Reverte. Perez really knows his fencing and writes well.

troopie

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- 5/24/2002 2:50:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm currently reading [COLOR=crimson]Das Reich[/COLOR] by James Lucas. I've also got hold of a couple of books second hand: [COLOR=crimson]One Of Our Submarines[/COLOR] by Edward Young, and [COLOR=crimson]H.M.S. Saracen[/COLOR] by Douglas Reeman. Are they any good? I would highly recomment [COLOR=crimson]Forgotten Soldier[/COLOR] by Guy Sajer, for anyone interested in the Russian front in WWII. I read it twenty years ago, and I cannot recommend it enough!

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- 5/24/2002 3:21:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry about the red script - I didn't realize how annoying it looks :eek: :o

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Books.. - 5/26/2002 2:10:17 AM   
wulfir


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From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Churchill’s Desert Rats
Operation Iceberg
In Deadly Combat
Company Commander
Burma Victory

and

Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom

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- 6/7/2002 2:26:20 PM   
Nixuebrig

 

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Status: offline 		right at the moment i read Rudi Gutendorf- Around the world with the football (Original title Mit dem Fußball um die Welt)

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- 6/7/2002 5:50:40 PM   
OKW-73

 

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Status: offline 		I did just finished Jeffrey Deavers Bone Collector and now im thinking to read Anthony Beevors Stalingrad again, which is excellent book for all those who are interested one of the greates battle, The Stalingrad!

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- 6/8/2002 6:31:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just finished: code to Zero-Ken Follet
Just Started: The Runner-Christopher Reich
Also just finished and highly highly recommended-Spooky8-Bob King. This is like the Andy McNab books-ex Special Forces trooper turned author-warts and all!!

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- 6/8/2002 6:43:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Troopie,

Wasn't there a movie based on "The Fencing Master"?

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- 6/9/2002 10:34:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Reading "Typhoon Strike"

It's about a air strike that actually hits the designated target!

Antarctic

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- 6/12/2002 8:29:34 AM   
Mojo

 

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Status: offline 		Just completed a bookstore run.

Hidden Horrors, Japanese War Crimes in World War ll, Tanaka (thanks tohoku:D )

Afternoon of the Rising Sun, The Battle for Leyte Gulf, Friedman

Black May, Gannon. This one is about US anti U-boat war in the Atlantic in '43

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Latest Books - 6/12/2002 11:13:54 AM   
Oxtane

 

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From: United States, Nebraska
Status: offline 		Just finished up "The 88 - the Flak/Pak 8.8cm" by Chris Ellis

Just started "Battles Lost & Won - Great Campaigns of World WarII" by Hanson W Baldwin

and

"Dirty Little Secrets of World War II" by James F Dunnigan and Albert A Nofi.

By the way a great place to find really cheap books in great condition is Amazon.com. Just find the title you want go in and do a search and find it. Look and see if they have anyone selling a used version and check to see how much they want for it and what kind of condition it is in. I have gotten books that are virtually brand new which normally sell for $30-35 for only $8-9 plus $3 shipping ! I have found lots of unbelieveable deals there. :eek:

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- 6/12/2002 8:21:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just finished "The rise and fall of the third reich" (Part II) by William Shirer. I think it provides an excellent overall look at WW2 on the German side :)

Next up is Hans Herlin's "Verdammter Atlantik" (I would translate it to "Cursed Atlantic") a few stories about German submarines.

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- 6/13/2002 4:36:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm currently reading Landscape Turned Red by Stephen Sears, and re-reading Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. I also just finished Ernie Pyle's War, as a biography it wasn't anything special but the author devoted a lot of time reprinting a lot of Pyle's columns.

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- 6/18/2002 12:08:38 PM   
Mojo

 

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Status: offline 		This weekend I picked up:

Defeat into Victory, Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 by Field Marshal Viscount Slim. A refreshing book. Slim is very honest about the mistakes he made. I'm going to have to reread it when I can get my hands on a good, large scale map of the area so I can follow the battles better.

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