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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/3/2016 11:12:02 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/6/2016 12:47:15 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/6/2016 1:51:45 PM   
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My local Waterstones has SS-GB by Len Deighton in the window. I liked The Man in the High Castle and loved Fatherland so I'm very tempted. Anyone read it?


I have not read many historical novels, these 2 look sound interesting.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/6/2016 4:20:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		ATTN: WIngs7 Winter by L Deighton and Bomber by L Deighton I highly recommend. Derek Robinsons WW1 trilogy Goshawk Squadron, War Story, Hornets Sting and finally Red Horse by E Corti are a selection of historical novels I recommend.

Loved Fatherland wish there had been a series of books.

Berlin Noir by P Kerr is a great book if you like Fatherland.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/6/2016 4:58:19 PM   
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My local Waterstones has SS-GB by Len Deighton in the window. I liked The Man in the High Castle and loved Fatherland so I'm very tempted. Anyone read it?
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Yes I have read it and thoroughly enjoyed it too (as I did Fatherland). A definite buy in my book


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/6/2016 6:18:40 PM   
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ATTN: WIngs7 Winter by L Deighton and Bomber by L Deighton I highly recommend. Derek Robinsons WW1 trilogy Goshawk Squadron, War Story, Hornets Sting and finally Red Horse by E Corti are a selection of historical novels I recommend.

Loved Fatherland wish there had been a series of books.

Berlin Noir by P Kerr is a great book if you like Fatherland.


Thanks Jason for this list!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/6/2016 6:42:51 PM   
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Fatherland was brilliant; I think it's been long enough that I can read it again. I also liked Archangel by the same author but I found Ghost so awful by comparison that I haven't looked at Harris' latest books.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/6/2016 11:13:42 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/7/2016 6:36:54 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/7/2016 6:50:10 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/10/2016 8:46:19 PM   
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Well well well that was a turnip for the books. I got to the end of book one of House of Cards and the final scene. I knew - as there were two more books to come - what happened..... except it didn't!!

Tip: If you read Michael Dobbs trilogy - make sure you read the revised edition of the first book - otherwise it kind of makes books 2 and 3 impossible!!!!!

Anyways..... next up House of Cards Part II to and from work

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/10/2016 8:59:37 PM   
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Well well well that was a turnip for the books. I got to the end of book one of House of Cards and the final scene. I knew - as there were two more books to come - what happened..... except it didn't!!

Tip: If you read Michael Dobbs trilogy - make sure you read the revised edition of the first book - otherwise it kind of makes books 2 and 3 impossible!!!!!



That is quite strange, I wonder what the explanation for that is...I see you have your cardboard counter with clipped corners back in action!


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/10/2016 9:22:23 PM   
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Well well well that was a turnip for the books. I got to the end of book one of House of Cards and the final scene. I knew - as there were two more books to come - what happened..... except it didn't!!

Tip: If you read Michael Dobbs trilogy - make sure you read the revised edition of the first book - otherwise it kind of makes books 2 and 3 impossible!!!!!



That is quite strange, I wonder what the explanation for that is...I see you have your cardboard counter with clipped corners back in action!

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I suspect he wrote the first novel as a one off. It then became a massive hit - that required sequels - except no sequel was possible because of how the book ended. Solution? Re-write the first book - or at least the ending - and voila, two more books and TV series. Hussah!

Yes the Grand Old Lady is back! As a wise lady once said - the art of being a woman, is knowing when not to be too much of a lady


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/10/2016 9:32:39 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/10/2016 9:34:51 PM   
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'The Western Front Companion' by Mark Adkin.
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Good reference book! As such not read cover to cover - just snippets as and when required - but enough to know this is a good addition to his other works - none of course better than Waterloo


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/10/2016 9:37:12 PM   
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'The Western Front Companion' by Mark Adkin.
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Good reference book! As such not read cover to cover - just snippets as and when required - but enough to know this is a good addition to his other works - none of course better than Waterloo


I agree...

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/10/2016 9:48:47 PM   
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Should be required reading for WiTE Axis fanboys :)

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/11/2016 12:15:57 PM   
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As an update Hotschi, apparently book 3 will be out in 2018.


Thank you again, Ostwindflak!


Something different, I am in search of a good biography of Clement Attlee, any recommendations by anyone?

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/11/2016 2:57:54 PM   
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Thank you again, Ostwindflak!


Something different, I am in search of a good biography of Clement Attlee, any recommendations by anyone?


its not a biography of Atlee as such but Peter Hennessy's Never Again is probably the definitive account of British politics from 1945-51. So obv, Atlee tends to dominate and there is a lot of good background material on the evolution of his ideas and so on.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/12/2016 4:29:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		So I finished up Pacific Crucible: War At Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian Toll yesterday. It was a good read. Had some refreshing things in it such as getting to know the major players in high command and in combat commands for both the Japanese and American sides. Toll gives back ground on these people in a way that is not dry or overly complex.

When he gets into the specific battles he re-tells them in a way that covers the operational part of it, but also the human part of it that I feel is left out a lot of times in these types of books. He pulls quotes from veterans and from war diaries to make the battles feel more personable, as if you are, in a sense, there instead of way on the outside looking in. It was an easy read with a good flow and his writing style makes you want to keep reading. Getting through chapters isn't a chore.

So with that said, I will starting the second book The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 tomorrow.

Here is a link: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-conquering-tide-ian-w-toll/1121137400?ean=9780393080643

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/12/2016 5:41:00 PM   
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So I finished up Pacific Crucible: War At Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian Toll yesterday. It was a good read. Had some refreshing things in it such as getting to know the major players in high command and in combat commands for both the Japanese and American sides. Toll gives back ground on these people in a way that is not dry or overly complex.

When he gets into the specific battles he re-tells them in a way that covers the operational part of it, but also the human part of it that I feel is left out a lot of times in these types of books. He pulls quotes from veterans and from war diaries to make the battles feel more personable, as if you are, in a sense, there instead of way on the outside looking in. It was an easy read with a good flow and his writing style makes you want to keep reading. Getting through chapters isn't a chore.

So with that said, I will starting the second book The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 tomorrow.

Here is a link: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-conquering-tide-ian-w-toll/1121137400?ean=9780393080643


Excellent critique! Ian Toll has won some literary awards...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_W._Toll

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/12/2016 8:49:54 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/18/2016 3:05:14 PM   
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its not a biography of Atlee as such but Peter Hennessy's Never Again is probably the definitive account of British politics from 1945-51. So obv, Atlee tends to dominate and there is a lot of good background material on the evolution of his ideas and so on.


Thank you for this, loki - I also got me Hennessys's The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 which I've found second-hand for just 6 Euros!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/18/2016 4:17:23 PM   
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Another good book by him is the The Secret State on the development and evolution of the UK's nuclear weapons policy. The discussion on how Whitehall developed its rules around when/if their use could be ordered is fascinating.

Its now dated but his book on the British Civil Service Whitehall is a good counterpart to the one on Prime Ministers. Only problem is its now very much a work of historical record as it is badly out of the date compared to the current (and constantly) shifting architecture of the Civil Service (combination of Blair's taste for re-organisations and the impact of devolution dismantled many of the older verities).

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/18/2016 4:22:03 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/18/2016 6:44:50 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/18/2016 7:27:48 PM   
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Now I only need a good explanation for my Secretary of Finance aka wife!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/18/2016 10:15:36 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/19/2016 12:07:44 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 9/19/2016 11:47:20 PM   
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