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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/28/2015 1:18:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Found! Amazon publishes a Kindle version of the classic "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" that is actually readable with all the original maps and illustrations.

http://www.amazon.com/Battles-Leaders-Civil-War-Vol-ebook/dp/B00O0YO5LM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1443401338&sr=1-1&keywords=battles+and+leaders+of+the+civil+war

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/28/2015 5:32:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've had a chance to spend several hours reviewing Volume I of "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" and it is incredible!

Everything is there... every map, every article, every order of battle and notes. Pictures and maps are nicely hyperlinked and indexed to you can jump out of view a map and then return back to where you were reading. Everything is very clear and readable. If this was an OCR scan to get the text, it's the best I've ever seen. In my reading I didn't find a single spelling error... amazing.

Each of the volumes is close to a 30 Megabyte download, that tells you a lot about how much content you are getting for $2.99 a volume. The credits indicate that this is an Amazon publication... not something from a publishing house or one of those free book scan sites.

One of my concerns about e-books was the often excessive pricing by the big Publishing houses. There were, of course, law suits over the pricing and Amazon was on the defensive about how they weren't setting the high prices... they were forced into it. If this production of "Battles and Leaders" is, indeed, an in house Amazon production, it bodes very well for being able to get long out of print classics in a good quality, affordable e-book.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/28/2015 5:36:06 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/28/2015 6:06:31 AM   
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Shattered Sword, but recent eye surgery has pretty much put the ca-bash on too much reading.


Sorry to hear that :( My own worst nightmare... not being able to read! I hope the prognosis is for a full recovery!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/28/2015 7:30:19 PM   
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Shattered Sword, but recent eye surgery has pretty much put the ca-bash on too much reading.
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Sorry to hear that

Re the book, anyone who doesn't know about this - but likes the naval side of war, should buy it asap.

I cannot recommend this book too much - it is written the way all war books should be written. It is quite simply, the dogs dangly bits.


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/29/2015 2:27:32 AM   
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Sorry to hear that :( My own worst nightmare... not being able to read! I hope the prognosis is for a full recovery!


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Sorry to hear that


Thanks guys. Doc says everything should be fine, but I'm having some doubts. Probably just my impatience.


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/2/2015 5:57:02 AM   
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Am reading No Room for Mistakes and this is proving another excellent read from this superb writer.

One bit made me rather sad though. The author was writing a passage about HMS Sterlet. No one knows for certain what happened to her or where her and her crew's last resting place is - and probably never will. Obviously quite a few subs suffered similar ends - all very sad

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/2/2015 2:30:13 PM   
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Seems pretty good so far.

Just finished The Kills by Richard House. Not sure how I feel about that one.

Cheers,

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/4/2015 7:54:07 AM   
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Next up its Franco and Hitler Payne.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/7/2015 8:02:26 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/7/2015 10:50:23 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/7/2015 11:56:23 AM   
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Shattered Sword, but recent eye surgery has pretty much put the ca-bash on too much reading.
warspite1

Sorry to hear that

Re the book, anyone who doesn't know about this - but likes the naval side of war, should buy it asap.

I cannot recommend this book too much - it is written the way all war books should be written. It is quite simply, the dogs dangly bits.



I agree.

And I can relate to the eye problem...


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/7/2015 8:47:24 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/7/2015 9:10:32 PM   
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Harold Coyle - Team Yankee

One of my perennial favorites. I think I need to re-read this.

Just finished Dr. Sleep, by Stephen King. Not bad. Certainly not as incredible as The Shining, but serviceable.

On to The Great Courses: The Great War, volume 2: lectures 12-24. I love public libraries!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/8/2015 5:59:31 PM   
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Next up its Franco and Hitler Payne.

Gotta say, this looks like its going to be a superb read





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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/8/2015 6:57:40 PM   
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Next up its Franco and Hitler Payne.

Gotta say, this looks like its going to be a superb read



Keep me updated, please.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/8/2015 7:18:11 PM   
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Next up its Franco and Hitler Payne.

Gotta say, this looks like its going to be a superb read



Keep me updated, please.
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Will do. The first couple of chapters have been a recap of the Spanish Civil War and the impact of the various powers that got involved - both for the Spanish, but also themselves. Riveting.


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/10/2015 7:45:00 PM   
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Finished reading Stark's War trilogy by Jack Campbell. Very interesting near future sci-fi story.

I liked Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series for incorporating a bit of physics into space combat.


I wish the Lost Fleet series was a Kindle Unlimited read on Amazon... I stalled out on the series after the fleet made it "home" and didn't pick up the newer books because of the cost. Maybe someday. I agree that Campbell had the best space combat physics of anything I've read.

Here is the best I've read when it comes to space combat - and by the way a quite good story:
http://www.thehumanreach.net/

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/11/2015 4:47:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Did something different. I read Jeff Shaara's novel of the battle of Shiloh, "Blaze of Glory" while simultaneously reading all the accounts in my recently acquired "Battles and leaders of the Civil War" about that battle. Further addition of various Internet resources including this excellent animated summary from The Civil War Trust:

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/battle-of-shiloh-animated.html?referrer=http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Blaze-Glory-1861-1865-Western-Theater-ebook/dp/B005OCYR1C/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

While playing the Historical Battle Scenario in John Tiller's HPS Campaign Shiloh game!

http://www.hpssims.com/pages/products/rifmusk/shiloh/shiloh.html

Quite frankly, this "in depth" study of the battle was an amazing experience. It all came together to give me an extremely accurate appreciation and understanding of Shiloh. Even the game is far more relevant to me now as I traced individuals and units covered in the novel, relating the descriptions of the fighting to the mapboard and really understanding the historical flow of the battle. Reading the 1884 commentary in Battles and Leaders revealed the personality clashes of the various commanders that still existed 20 years later in their memoirs and commentary.

Has anyone else done this kind of intensive study of a battle or campaign?

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/15/2015 3:25:30 PM   
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The section where he realises that in jungle warfare the idea of a distinction between combat and support units has little meaning, so he decides to retrain all his HQ clerks/signallers as riflemen is both funny and rather poignant given the losses he suffers later in the campaign.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/15/2015 4:35:56 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/15/2015 6:07:27 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/15/2015 10:56:12 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/15/2015 10:57:21 PM   
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I am returning to early Clancy, just finished Cardinal of the K and now am reading Sum of all Fears... Early Clancy makes me wonder about later books, seems much more descriptive and involved characters in these first five books or so. Now I am not saying he is a good writer as his Charactors are very 2 d, but he tells a good page turner story, ala Crieghton etc. cheers to ll those out there Clancy lovers


I need to do the same. I have re-read Red Storm Rising just recently and I remembered how much I liked his early books.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/16/2015 1:46:56 PM   
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I am returning to early Clancy, just finished Cardinal of the K and now am reading Sum of all Fears... Early Clancy makes me wonder about later books, seems much more descriptive and involved characters in these first five books or so. Now I am not saying he is a good writer as his Charactors are very 2 d, but he tells a good page turner story, ala Crieghton etc. cheers to ll those out there Clancy lovers


I need to do the same. I have re-read Red Storm Rising just recently and I remembered how much I liked his early books.


Hear hear.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/16/2015 1:48:11 PM   
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Did something different. I read Jeff Shaara's novel of the battle of Shiloh, "Blaze of Glory" while simultaneously reading all the accounts in my recently acquired "Battles and leaders of the Civil War" about that battle. Further addition of various Internet resources including this excellent animated summary from The Civil War Trust:

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/battle-of-shiloh-animated.html?referrer=http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Blaze-Glory-1861-1865-Western-Theater-ebook/dp/B005OCYR1C/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

While playing the Historical Battle Scenario in John Tiller's HPS Campaign Shiloh game!

http://www.hpssims.com/pages/products/rifmusk/shiloh/shiloh.html

Quite frankly, this "in depth" study of the battle was an amazing experience. It all came together to give me an extremely accurate appreciation and understanding of Shiloh. Even the game is far more relevant to me now as I traced individuals and units covered in the novel, relating the descriptions of the fighting to the mapboard and really understanding the historical flow of the battle. Reading the 1884 commentary in Battles and Leaders revealed the personality clashes of the various commanders that still existed 20 years later in their memoirs and commentary.

Has anyone else done this kind of intensive study of a battle or campaign?


Very interesting multimedia approach, Rhonda!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/16/2015 7:31:59 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/16/2015 11:13:17 PM   
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Did something different. I read Jeff Shaara's novel of the battle of Shiloh, "Blaze of Glory" while simultaneously reading all the accounts in my recently acquired "Battles and leaders of the Civil War" about that battle. Further addition of various Internet resources including this excellent animated summary from The Civil War Trust:

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/battle-of-shiloh-animated.html?referrer=http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Blaze-Glory-1861-1865-Western-Theater-ebook/dp/B005OCYR1C/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

While playing the Historical Battle Scenario in John Tiller's HPS Campaign Shiloh game!

http://www.hpssims.com/pages/products/rifmusk/shiloh/shiloh.html

Quite frankly, this "in depth" study of the battle was an amazing experience. It all came together to give me an extremely accurate appreciation and understanding of Shiloh. Even the game is far more relevant to me now as I traced individuals and units covered in the novel, relating the descriptions of the fighting to the mapboard and really understanding the historical flow of the battle. Reading the 1884 commentary in Battles and Leaders revealed the personality clashes of the various commanders that still existed 20 years later in their memoirs and commentary.

Has anyone else done this kind of intensive study of a battle or campaign?


Very interesting multimedia approach, Rhonda!


Thinking about doing the same thing for Antietam... anyone want to recommend a good novel on the campaign/battle?

Also thinking of maybe doing Fredricksburg/Chancellorsville in conjunction with a re-reading of Jeff Shaara's "Gods and Generals" novel... and a re-viewing of the "Gods and Generals" movie.

I might even revisit Gettysburg in the same fashion (though this is my favorite battle of all time... still plenty to learn). Read all the Battles and Leaders articles, read "Killer Angels" again, watch the "Gettysburg" movie (again, for the umpteenth time), and maybe zero in on scenarios in HPS Campaign Gettysburg (I've tended to do only campaigns and full battles... never played one of the "Picket's Charge" scenarios, for example, or of the fight for Culps Hill. Yep, plenty to learn..

This is really a neat approach to military history.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/17/2015 12:21:27 AM   
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Did something different. I read Jeff Shaara's novel of the battle of Shiloh, "Blaze of Glory" while simultaneously reading all the accounts in my recently acquired "Battles and leaders of the Civil War" about that battle. Further addition of various Internet resources including this excellent animated summary from The Civil War Trust:

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/battle-of-shiloh-animated.html?referrer=http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Blaze-Glory-1861-1865-Western-Theater-ebook/dp/B005OCYR1C/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

While playing the Historical Battle Scenario in John Tiller's HPS Campaign Shiloh game!

http://www.hpssims.com/pages/products/rifmusk/shiloh/shiloh.html

Quite frankly, this "in depth" study of the battle was an amazing experience. It all came together to give me an extremely accurate appreciation and understanding of Shiloh. Even the game is far more relevant to me now as I traced individuals and units covered in the novel, relating the descriptions of the fighting to the mapboard and really understanding the historical flow of the battle. Reading the 1884 commentary in Battles and Leaders revealed the personality clashes of the various commanders that still existed 20 years later in their memoirs and commentary.

Has anyone else done this kind of intensive study of a battle or campaign?


I love to do this! I love to get some books on the topic I'm currently playing and geek out on it. I usually do larger scale conflicts but I've done classic campaigns. I'm currently on a WWI kick. I'm playing TEAW and RTW and reading The First World War by Marin Gilbert and A Naval History of World War 1 by Paul G. Halpern.

I think it helps you get more immersive in the games and to help you understand the position or thoughts of commanders on the field.

Cheers rhondabrwn

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/17/2015 3:49:40 AM   
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ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

Did something different. I read Jeff Shaara's novel of the battle of Shiloh, "Blaze of Glory" while simultaneously reading all the accounts in my recently acquired "Battles and leaders of the Civil War" about that battle. Further addition of various Internet resources including this excellent animated summary from The Civil War Trust:

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/battle-of-shiloh-animated.html?referrer=http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Blaze-Glory-1861-1865-Western-Theater-ebook/dp/B005OCYR1C/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

While playing the Historical Battle Scenario in John Tiller's HPS Campaign Shiloh game!

http://www.hpssims.com/pages/products/rifmusk/shiloh/shiloh.html

Quite frankly, this "in depth" study of the battle was an amazing experience. It all came together to give me an extremely accurate appreciation and understanding of Shiloh. Even the game is far more relevant to me now as I traced individuals and units covered in the novel, relating the descriptions of the fighting to the mapboard and really understanding the historical flow of the battle. Reading the 1884 commentary in Battles and Leaders revealed the personality clashes of the various commanders that still existed 20 years later in their memoirs and commentary.

Has anyone else done this kind of intensive study of a battle or campaign?


I love to do this! I love to get some books on the topic I'm currently playing and geek out on it. I usually do larger scale conflicts but I've done classic campaigns. I'm currently on a WWI kick. I'm playing TEAW and RTW and reading The First World War by Marin Gilbert and A Naval History of World War 1 by Paul G. Halpern.

I think it helps you get more immersive in the games and to help you understand the position or thoughts of commanders on the field.

Cheers rhondabrwn
warspite1

Read those two as part of my 'World War I kick' a couple of years ago. Good books. Have you read Castles of Steel? That is a stonking read.


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