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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/17/2015 3:54:39 AM   
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Here's an old favourite I last read circa 20 years ago.

It was this or Shattered Sword. Went for this as I read the latter more recently.

From memory, the Cooper book is a brilliant tome that really lays out the state of the German Army in WWII and also Hitler's relationship with the Army.

Let's hope its as good as I remember






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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/17/2015 7:18:09 AM   
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Here's an old favourite I last read circa 20 years ago.

It was this or Shattered Sword. Went for this as I read the latter more recently.

From memory, the Cooper book is a brilliant tome that really lays out the state of the German Army in WWII and also Hitler's relationship with the Army.

Let's hope its as good as I remember







Oh, it is.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/17/2015 10:13:47 AM   
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Read it many years ago, lost my copy in a house move. My recollection is that it had great stats but pushed the army line against Hitler to excess - which is why I never bothered to replace it.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/18/2015 2:21:31 PM   
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Here's an old favourite I last read circa 20 years ago.

It was this or Shattered Sword. Went for this as I read the latter more recently.

From memory, the Cooper book is a brilliant tome that really lays out the state of the German Army in WWII and also Hitler's relationship with the Army.

Let's hope its as good as I remember





Oh, it is.
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Two chapters in and yes you are right and my memory is not failing. A really good read, so well written.


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/21/2015 7:41:59 PM   
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Damn it! I knew that would happen.... Barely got a chance to start the German Army and the new Torch book - Torch. North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory (O'Hara) arrives early...

I will have to sideline Cooper's brilliant tome for a few weeks while I get into O'Hara's book. I am not O'Hara's biggest fan, but he writes well enough and this book looks pretty detailed. Lots on the naval aspect - and less on the battles once ashore.




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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/21/2015 8:27:07 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/22/2015 5:36:21 PM   
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Damn it! I knew that would happen.... Barely got a chance to start the German Army and the new Torch book - Torch. North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory (O'Hara) arrives early...

I will have to sideline Cooper's brilliant tome for a few weeks while I get into O'Hara's book. I am not O'Hara's biggest fan, but he writes well enough and this book looks pretty detailed. Lots on the naval aspect - and less on the battles once ashore.



warspite1

Yep, a couple of chapters in and the author is already winding me up

But as said, he writes well, he concentrates on the naval side and this is a subject I know little about so all in all its a positive.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/22/2015 7:40:08 PM   
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'A Naval History of WWI', by Sondhaus. It's hard to break new ground on such a familiar topic.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/23/2015 5:54:41 PM   
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Damn it! I knew that would happen.... Barely got a chance to start the German Army and the new Torch book - Torch. North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory (O'Hara) arrives early...

I will have to sideline Cooper's brilliant tome for a few weeks while I get into O'Hara's book. I am not O'Hara's biggest fan, but he writes well enough and this book looks pretty detailed. Lots on the naval aspect - and less on the battles once ashore.



warspite1

Yep, a couple of chapters in and the author is already winding me up

But as said, he writes well, he concentrates on the naval side and this is a subject I know little about so all in all its a positive.
warspite1

Mmmm I think I will save further comment until I have finished the book. Who proof reads this stuff???? Apparently the Raid on St Nazaire was carried out by HMS Campbell and it appears that Lake Maracaibo is in fact Lake Maracumbo.

The anti-British crap is starting to really grate too..... O'Hara has let himself down with this. I look forward to reviewing appropriately on Amazon when done.


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/24/2015 12:45:35 AM   
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If you are from Germany and have not read the Hangman's Daughter series, you are truly missing out. Oliver Pötzsch is a national treasure of Germany.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/24/2015 12:12:00 PM   
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Just got a 'Military History of Late Rome 284-361' by Ilkka Syvanne. The first in a planned series with the next volume (to be published) covering the period 361-395.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/24/2015 10:43:14 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/26/2015 9:58:53 PM   
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OK, it's about economics of the Crash of 2008, but it's about the Moral Hazard affect of things. Like seat-belts, air bags and anti-skid brakes in cars make driving safer so people drive faster and with less care thus making driving just as hazardous as before.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/30/2015 12:14:45 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/30/2015 1:48:34 AM   
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ROLLING INTO ACTION, MEMOIRS OF A TANK CORPS SECTION COMMANDER by CAPTAIN D. E. HICKEY




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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/31/2015 11:37:42 AM   
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Sitting at home feeling sorry for myself with a rubbish headcold...

But its not all bad!

This arrived today. Love Seaforth Publishing naval books, they ooze quality from every pore... er page




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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/31/2015 7:23:30 PM   
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The Great War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1914-1919





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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/4/2015 11:11:02 PM   
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Bought from Oxfam charity shop. £6.00 - which is about twice what they usually charge for books. I think I saw that it is still illegal to read it in some countries, which adds a certain level of naughtiness to buying it.

The introduction is by Donald Cameron Watt who was a history professor at the London School of Economics when I was there and who wrote a very good book on the immediate causes of WW2.

Just found an obituary on DC Watt from the Daily Telegraph - he died about a year ago.








Professsor Donald Cameron Watt, who has died aged 86, was a historian noted for his independence of mind and wide-ranging interests; his study of the origins of the Second World War, How War Came (1989), the fruit of decades of research, won him the Wolfson Prize for history in 1990, was selected by the New York Times as its History Book of the Year and was praised by Lord Bullock (the historian Alan Bullock) as the one book to read on how the war came about.


Cameron Watt taught at the London School of Economics for nearly 40 years, heading the International History department and holding the Stevenson chair of International History from 1981 to 1993. During this period he inspired a generation of students, many of whom would go on to become prominent contemporary historians in their own right.


In addition he edited the Survey of International Affairs at Chatham House from 1962 to 1971, served as official historian in the Cabinet Office from 1978 and was a sought-after conference speaker.


Donald Cameron Watt was born on May 17 1928 at Rugby School, where his father was then a housemaster. He himself was educated at the school and, after National Service in the Intelligence Corps as a member of the British occupation forces in Austria, won a scholarship to Oriel College, Oxford, where he read PPE, edited Oxford Poetry and took a First in 1951.


Cameron Watt was a gifted musician who had been a boy chorister at King’s College School, Cambridge, and after leaving Oxford he considered taking up a career as a professional opera singer. Instead, driven by a desire to find out why the Europe of his childhood had fallen into ruinous war in 1939, he joined a team led by Sir John Wheeler-Bennett which screened and edited for publication the captured archives of the German Foreign Ministry.


In 1954 he joined the International History department at the LSE where he was encouraged by Professor W N Medlicott to pursue his studies of the causes of the war. He was promoted to a readership in 1966, was appointed professor in 1971 and finally took the Stevenson chair in 1981 along with the leadership of the International History Department.

There, among other things, he founded an LSE programme on the Law of the Sea, anticipating by many years the need for governments to study transnational and environmental issues in the area of offshore resources.

Cameron Watt was a stout defender of the historian’s right to be given access to all the evidence. As official Cabinet historian, he had been expected to produce a volume on the establishment of the Ministry of Defence, but he never completed the book because officials were unable, or disinclined, to provide the documentation he needed.

In addition to How War Came, he wrote or edited a further 25 books, including the first edition of Mein Kampf to be published in Britain after the war. In Too Serious a Business (1975) he proposed that the Second World War arose out of a breakdown within European society as a whole; in Succeeding John Bull (1984) he explored Britain’s replacement by the United States as the primary world economic and political power. He was also a frequent contributor to The Daily Telegraph.

An outgoing, gregarious man, known for his stock of gaudy ties, Cameron Watt had an almost magical ability to summarise with great accuracy the conclusions of presentations throughout which he had given every appearance of being asleep. From particularly tedious administrative meetings he would often emerge clutching origami animals or beautifully-drawn treasure maps.

In 1990 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and in 1998 an honorary fellow of Oriel.

In 1951 he married Marianne Grau, who died in 1962. Later that year he married Felicia Stanley, who died in 1997. A son by his first marriage survives him.

Professor Donald Cameron Watt, born May 17 1928, died October 30 2014

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/5/2015 6:31:37 AM   
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Many thanks for posting altipueri. Given the praise from none other than Alan Bullock I might give How War Came a go.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/5/2015 7:14:56 AM   
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The Great War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1914-1919





And now I must have it.

My precious.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/5/2015 7:25:58 AM   
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Kindle version?

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/5/2015 10:21:18 AM   
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Just finished Radiant State, the third and final part of Peter Higgins' Wolfhound Century. Still trying to work out if I liked it (and the first two books I found compelling). The allegory of the Vlast=USSR and Kantor (the main anti-hero)=Stalin was laid on a bit more thickly than earlier (where it was obvious but your nose wasn't rubbed in it). Still utterly wierd and some bits quite beautifully written.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/5/2015 1:28:03 PM   
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I'm reading the newest addition to the Carl Barks Library. Carl Barks is my favorite cartoon artist.






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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/5/2015 2:59:33 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/6/2015 1:57:21 AM   
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I'm reading the newest addition to the Carl Barks Library. Carl Barks is my favorite cartoon artist.




Uncle Scrooge was my childhood favorite... I learned history from his adventure! Barks was, indeed, an artistic genius :)

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/6/2015 2:36:35 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/8/2015 1:10:10 AM   
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'The British Battleship: 1906-1946' by Norman Friedman.
Friedman tries hard to bring a new perspective to well-trodden paths.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/8/2015 1:42:32 AM   
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I am reading the World in Flames manuals, having just finished the WiF Annual from 1993.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/8/2015 2:03:32 AM   
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I am reading the World in Flames manuals, having just finished the WiF Annual from 1993.

Are you preparing for a Christmas Sale?


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/8/2015 7:05:50 AM   
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'The British Battleship: 1906-1946' by Norman Friedman.
Friedman tries hard to bring a new perspective to well-trodden paths.
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Anything on the Lion-class Mr Z?


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