Is this the first Norman Friedman book you ordered? He's published one about Gearing destroyers, which would interest me, but am not sure. Do his books have drawings or the like?
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"A big butcher's bill is not necessarily evidence of good tactics"
- Wavell's reply to Churchill, after the latter complained about faint-heartedness, as he discovered that British casualties in the evacuation from Somaliland had been only 260 men.
Is this the first Norman Friedman book you ordered? He's published one about Gearing destroyers, which would interest me, but am not sure. Do his books have drawings or the like?
warspite1
I have British Carrier Aviation, US Battleships, British Cruisers and two volumes of British destroyers. Yes, lots of pictures and drawings - very comprehensive books.
I have The British Pacific Fleet (Hobbs) but have yet to read it. The only reason its been relegated in reading order is that I have twice read Winton's excellent The Forgotten Fleet in the past. I am looking forward to getting around to it.
Too many books...so little time....
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England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805
"He commanded the armies of Europe against France for ten campaigns. He fought four great battles and many important actions. It is a common boast of his champions that he never fought a battle that he did not win, nor beseiged a fortress that he did not take. Amid all the chances and baffling accidents of war he produced victory with almost mechanical certainty."
Is this the first Norman Friedman book you ordered? He's published one about Gearing destroyers, which would interest me, but am not sure. Do his books have drawings or the like?
warspite1
I have British Carrier Aviation, US Battleships, British Cruisers and two volumes of British destroyers. Yes, lots of pictures and drawings - very comprehensive books.
I have The British Pacific Fleet (Hobbs) but have yet to read it. The only reason its been relegated in reading order is that I have twice read Winton's excellent The Forgotten Fleet in the past. I am looking forward to getting around to it.
Too many books...so little time....
Having been travelling a lot recently, I've had a chance to dig into "Castles of Steel" some more. For a campaign and war that I'm less familiar with, it's a well written piece.
Anthony Beevor's Berlin: The Downfall 1945, to be informed when I reach the end of the game with MWiF, within 5 or 6 years ...
Really good read for the most part. One criticism I have is that the book switches back and forth between personal stories of Berliners during the war, and then other side being the political and military details. It's almost like Beevor was trying to write 2 books in one... certainly is the length of two books. Other than the up and down of the narrative, it was a really good book otherwise.
I certainly had no idea that the Germans were that outnumbered during their 'Hitlergrad.' I thought it was more of a battle than it actually was. The book mentions something like about 60,000 troops, mostly Volkssturm and weakened army units fighting half a million really pissed off Russians.
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Is this the first Norman Friedman book you ordered? He's published one about Gearing destroyers, which would interest me, but am not sure. Do his books have drawings or the like?
warspite1
I have British Carrier Aviation, US Battleships, British Cruisers and two volumes of British destroyers. Yes, lots of pictures and drawings - very comprehensive books.
I have The British Pacific Fleet (Hobbs) but have yet to read it. The only reason its been relegated in reading order is that I have twice read Winton's excellent The Forgotten Fleet in the past. I am looking forward to getting around to it.
Too many books...so little time....
Having been travelling a lot recently, I've had a chance to dig into "Castles of Steel" some more. For a campaign and war that I'm less familiar with, it's a well written piece.
warspite1
Until CTGW came out this time last year and I got into that, I knew bugger all about WWI. Bought a load of books to get up the curve including Castles of Steel which I read over the last year. What a stonker of a book - absolutely brilliant
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England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805
I am saving Castles of Steel for Christmas. Glad it is good.
Now reading The 10,000 by the guy who wrote Team Yankee. It is not very good. But wow, whoever recommended The Sixth Battle was right. Awesome book. Thanks.
Is this the first Norman Friedman book you ordered? He's published one about Gearing destroyers, which would interest me, but am not sure. Do his books have drawings or the like?
warspite1
I have British Carrier Aviation, US Battleships, British Cruisers and two volumes of British destroyers. Yes, lots of pictures and drawings - very comprehensive books.
I have The British Pacific Fleet (Hobbs) but have yet to read it. The only reason its been relegated in reading order is that I have twice read Winton's excellent The Forgotten Fleet in the past. I am looking forward to getting around to it.
Too many books...so little time....
Having been travelling a lot recently, I've had a chance to dig into "Castles of Steel" some more. For a campaign and war that I'm less familiar with, it's a well written piece.
warspite1
Until CTGW came out this time last year and I got into that, I knew bugger all about WWI. Bought a load of books to get up the curve including Castles of Steel which I read over the last year. What a stonker of a book - absolutely brilliant
Warspite1,
Is there a single volume that you'd recommend on a grand overview of WWI? I know less about that war than most others and it was so formative to European history. Good titles appreciated.
Is this the first Norman Friedman book you ordered? He's published one about Gearing destroyers, which would interest me, but am not sure. Do his books have drawings or the like?
warspite1
I have British Carrier Aviation, US Battleships, British Cruisers and two volumes of British destroyers. Yes, lots of pictures and drawings - very comprehensive books.
I have The British Pacific Fleet (Hobbs) but have yet to read it. The only reason its been relegated in reading order is that I have twice read Winton's excellent The Forgotten Fleet in the past. I am looking forward to getting around to it.
Too many books...so little time....
Having been travelling a lot recently, I've had a chance to dig into "Castles of Steel" some more. For a campaign and war that I'm less familiar with, it's a well written piece.
warspite1
Until CTGW came out this time last year and I got into that, I knew bugger all about WWI. Bought a load of books to get up the curve including Castles of Steel which I read over the last year. What a stonker of a book - absolutely brilliant
Warspite1,
Is there a single volume that you'd recommend on a grand overview of WWI? I know less about that war than most others and it was so formative to European history. Good titles appreciated.
warspite1
I don't want to steer you wrong CB and would suggest wodin's your man for WWI - I know he has an extensive collection on that war. However I used:
The First World War. A Complete History by Martin Gilbert. A very readable tome.
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Finished Singapore Burning by Colin Smith - very good reading. Started reading Wars of Empire by Douglas Porch. Hostages to Fortune, as mentioned above, already arrived at my place.
Ordered David Hobbs' The British Pacifc Fleet today, as well as a paperbook, which I was eyeing already for a while, namely Wings over the Pacific by Alex Horn - about the RNZAF in the Pacific War. Usually sells around 75 Euros but there was one on offer for 2/3 of this. Still expensive for a paperback, but I am insane enough to pay it
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"A big butcher's bill is not necessarily evidence of good tactics"
- Wavell's reply to Churchill, after the latter complained about faint-heartedness, as he discovered that British casualties in the evacuation from Somaliland had been only 260 men.
The Massacre of ABDA by JF Ready - Kindle version. Poorly written, desperately needs an editor. Some paragraphs are literally pointless....literally. Otherwise, author did their homework covering the initial Japanese advance in Dec1941 in all ABDA theatres, Malaya, Phillipines, etc.... I have learned quite a bit on the Japanese side. Nothing spectacular unless the subject is of special interest to you.
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Just finished Bernard Cornwell's Azincourt. Fictional story about longbowmen in Hundred Years' War. Very fast to read and entertaining (and yes, bloody) like most books by Cornwell, but I found also the novel's period quite interesting because I didn't know literally anything about this conflict.
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I am saving Castles of Steel for Christmas. Glad it is good.
Now reading The 10,000 by the guy who wrote Team Yankee. It is not very good. But wow, whoever recommended The Sixth Battle was right. Awesome book. Thanks.
I read Team Yankee many years ago. Pretty fun read IIRC. Most of the war books I have these days, though, are statistical books and not really war stories of any kind. Too much gaming has taken its toll on my book collection.
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