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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 5/25/2015 12:35:52 AM   
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Kiev 1941 by David Stahel

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 5/27/2015 8:59:10 PM   
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It looks interesting.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 5/28/2015 11:10:58 AM   
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Kiev 1941 by David Stahel

Any good?
Looks interesting.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/3/2015 5:00:27 PM   
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A couple of chapters in and really enjoying this one

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/6/2015 8:35:30 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/6/2015 9:38:37 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/11/2015 8:09:37 AM   
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Vichy France Old Guard and New Order 1940-1944

A couple of chapters in and really enjoying this one
warspite1

Finished the book. Bit of a strange one actually. At its best it is very good - but too much of the book is written in a language that I completely fail to understand

Wordy and, to me, largely incomprehensible Sentences like the one below abound. If not entirely incomprehensible, they do make the book feel like one is wading through treacle:

At stake was a dim groping toward another conception of representation to replace the Third Republic's equal and atomized voters.

As an introduction to Vichy, I suspect I could have picked an easier to read tome, but this book did at least leave me with a much better understanding of where Vichy fitted in to the bigger picture of WWII.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/18/2015 1:00:29 PM   
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Currently reading Rome by Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/18/2015 4:13:24 PM   
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Currently enjoying Centennial, by James H. Michener.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/18/2015 4:15:17 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/19/2015 6:33:31 PM   
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So far so good.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/19/2015 6:45:02 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/20/2015 3:01:10 PM   
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Contrary to popular history the storming of the Bastille was not the spontaneous action of a downtrodden mob. "That brigands from the South were deliberately enticed to Paris in 1789, employed and paid by the revolutionary leaders, is a fact confirmed by authorities too numerous to quote at length... In other words, the importation of the contingent of hired brigands conclusively refutes the theory that the Revolution was an irrepressible rising of the people," wrote Webster.

We see in the French Revolution the first time where grievences were systematically created in order to exploit them," wrote author still.



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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/21/2015 7:12:30 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/22/2015 3:24:45 AM   
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http://destroyermen.wikia.com/wiki/Destroyermen_Wiki

On the plus side, had two baby goats born this afternoon Now up to 18 goats.

Here is the herd I want to build ;)

https://www.facebook.com/nightline/videos/10153361251442801/?fref=nf

I love this video!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/22/2015 8:35:15 AM   
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Once the campaigns and battles got going I encountered my usual problem of following this in kindle because of the difficulty of continually having to cross refer and zoom in on the relevant campaign maps. Happily a solution was to hand: the maps are available on the internet which allowed me to download them to a tablet and use that for reference.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/22/2015 11:52:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have just started Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

And what an original book (so far)! Sometimes being a great scholar is not enough. You still have to KNOW how to explain what you know. In other words, you must be a GOOD writer. And the truth is quite many scholars are dry. Not their fault, being a scholar and a writer are two different things. But this Tom Holland guy is BOTH things

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/22/2015 10:02:24 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Ironclad

Rereading the Safehold series which has added an epic land war to join the world wide naval one for even deeper and more complicated campaigns and battles plus the extensive political and diplomatic intrigues. Good characters on both sides with a diabolical one heading the Inquisition.

Once the campaigns and battles got going I encountered my usual problem of following this in kindle because of the difficulty of continually having to cross refer and zoom in on the relevant campaign maps. Happily a solution was to hand: the maps are available on the internet which allowed me to download them to a tablet and use that for reference.


I've been considering this for awhile now. You have got my interest aroused... thanks :)

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/23/2015 11:26:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just finished Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Wasn't sure how I was going to like it but it was an excellent read. She has a very unique way of writing, sometimes it is like reading prose. I liked it so much that I jumped straight into the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.

It has also piqued my interest in the period and have picked up a couple of books about Cromwell and the period between Thomas Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/23/2015 6:27:04 PM   
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Just finished Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Wasn't sure how I was going to like it but it was an excellent read. She has a very unique way of writing, sometimes it is like reading prose. I liked it so much that I jumped straight into the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.

It has also piqued my interest in the period and have picked up a couple of books about Cromwell and the period between Thomas Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell.

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Did you get the chance to watch the BBC adaptation of the book recently?

A really well done piece of drama


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/25/2015 3:06:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Doggie3

Just finished Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Wasn't sure how I was going to like it but it was an excellent read. She has a very unique way of writing, sometimes it is like reading prose. I liked it so much that I jumped straight into the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.

It has also piqued my interest in the period and have picked up a couple of books about Cromwell and the period between Thomas Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell.

Cheers
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Did you get the chance to watch the BBC adaptation of the book recently?

A really well done piece of drama



No, I haven't seen it but have read that it is a good adaptation. Once I've finished the books I'll see if I can pick it up somewhere. I'm also going on a long haul Emirates flight soon, I think it might be available on the in-flight entertainment system so may watch it then.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/26/2015 12:00:24 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/26/2015 7:15:30 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/26/2015 2:37:50 PM   
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The Forever War
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Great series...the first books I ever read on Kindle! (Although I thought the series was Forever War, Peace, Free ...might be regionally different).

Enjoy!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/26/2015 3:37:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

I have just started Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

And what an original book (so far)! Sometimes being a great scholar is not enough. You still have to KNOW how to explain what you know. In other words, you must be a GOOD writer. And the truth is quite many scholars are dry. Not their fault, being a scholar and a writer are two different things. But this Tom Holland guy is BOTH things


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/26/2015 4:17:43 PM   
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I truly recommend this great book, especially if you are interested about the civil wars, struggles, the period from the Gracchi Brothers (130s-120s B.C.) to the Battle of Actium (30 B.C.) ie the definitve victory of Augustus.

Now I will be starting Sparta by Ernst Baltrusch

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/26/2015 4:23:23 PM   
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His book"Persian Fire"is an excellent read also.


I did not know at all this historian! From what I have read, he's written historical novels too. I try to focus on history itself and avoid (as a rule) the "novels" but I am going to investigate this guy and will try to read more of his books (who knows, maybe the "novels" included). Thanks for the tip

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/27/2015 12:31:33 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/27/2015 8:14:44 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 6/28/2015 5:31:55 PM   
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