Books - What are you reading?

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

Reread this one from 20 years ago, very entertaining...

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

Another freebie, had some interesting stories, and a few great ones...(published and printed in July 1974, so exactly 50 years old)...

Edited July 11, 2024 by [CPT]Pike*HarryM

[von_Tom]

Right now reading this rather than working:

 

Spoiler

 

I'm also reading through the text of the revised Black Cross Red Star 3 - release is getting closer!

 

von Tom

Edited August 9, 2024 by LukeFF
swastikas

[I/JG53_Kurtz]

My last purchasings:

 

 

 

Both are legendary books that i was dreaming 20 years ago but that I never had the chance to buy out of laziness, Now the dream became true 😍

 

[cardboard_killer]

Been slowly reading IT for a couple weeks now. Can't seem to get into the groove with this one, but I'm close to finishing it now, so am holding out to read what happens.

 

[Vishnu]

 

 

Just finished... a must read. For all of us.

[ACG_Bobo]

 

[cardboard_killer]

[cardboard_killer]

Trying to decide what to read next. Just finished the above depressing fiction, and it makes me want to pick up some non-fiction, but I have so much in the queue. What should it be?

• Kiera and the Sun
• Absolution
• East of Eden
• North and South
• Holding Out: The German Army and Operational Command in 1917 (I'd have to buy that, though, for $45).

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

Finished this one, surprisingly good. Moves along much faster than the McCullough Rome books...

 

 

Back now to classic sci-fi...

Edited September 7, 2024 by [CPT]Pike*HarryM

[cardboard_killer]

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

Just finished this one, very good. Beautiful writing...

Next up is a bio of Omar Bradley.

 

[cardboard_killer]

I got this for my birthday, but put it on the back burner for now.

 

 

I am currently reading something I've never read before, although I know the story as most of us probably do.

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

Looks like the IHRA bookseries on the Pacific Theater might get completed,which is great news!

 

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=65377

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

Has been a while since I've read one of these...

 

 

[SYN_Ricky]

[cardboard_killer]

[Heliopause]

[cardboard_killer]

Tired of the new, I am currently re-reading two books. One, the last of the Citino series on the German Army in WW2, but the other is one of my beloved books that I re-read ever five years or so.

 

 

 

[cardboard_killer]

Fiction and non-fiction:

 

 

[cardboard_killer]

[TempestV]

[cardboard_killer]

I hope you like it more than I did. If it hadn't been so recommended to me, I would never have finished it.

[TempestV]

I thought it is terrific...but I can understand why some people may not  like it or lukewarm to it.

I'm starting his followup novel to this  as soon as I finish The Sympathizer.

I lived in Westminster, CA for awhile care-giving for my late Father (Career US Army who did 2 tours in VietNam), met quite a few older and younger Vietnamese while in Westminster...I use to see some Vietnamese refugees at LAX when  transiting to UCLA in the mid 70's. the few I saw looked so forlorn.

In Westminster (aka 'Little Vietnam') Vietnamese are very prosperous now.

Didn't watch the The Sympathizer on TV.

I don't own a TV; by choice.

 

Edited January 17 by TempestV

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

[I/JG53_Kurtz]

 

I don't know if this is the right thread, but I recently started to read articles of the Eduard monthly publication dedicated to aircraft modelling and history. I must say that the quality of the articles, the topics and the aircraft art are impressive! I suggest everybody interested to have a look. Some examples:

 

https://info.eduard.com/en/01-2023-1/bailing-out-over-the-jungle

https://info.eduard.com/en/12-2024-1/november-16-1944-1

https://info.eduard.com/en/02-2025-1/the-mw-50-system-as-an-alternative-to-the-gm-1-1

 

 

Edited February 20 by I/JG53_Kurtz

[=LD=Bulldog*]

If you like scale modelling, Fonthill Media has published a new series dedicated to the hobby.

 

Jay

Publisher

[Heliopause]

[cardboard_killer]

It is a broad overview, and, IMO, lacks depth. It also seems to assume the reader knows more than I do about Greek and Balkan politics of the era. Still, there do not seem to be many English language books on the topic, so I recommend it.

 

[BMA_FlyingShark]

Guys,

 

Really proud to have gotten a copy of this.

Maybe it's all just fantasy but interesting theory nevertheless.

The book cost me a small fortune, shipping it to Europe another one and import taxes as well.

But here it is, first edition:

 

Have a nice day,

 

Edited May 29 by BMA_FlyingShark

[cardboard_killer]

[von_Tom]

 

 

 

Chapter 1 Black Cross Red Star volume 6.  

 

Text blurred and redacted for obvious reasons.

 

von Tom

[cardboard_killer]

On 6/3/2025 at 10:48 PM, cardboard_killer said:

 Six Air Forces Over the Atlantic

I was very disappointed in this. The writing is like reading photo captions, and it lacks any depth..

 

Switched to fiction.

Edited June 19 by cardboard_killer

[LukeFF]

After sitting on my bookshelf for many years, I finally got around to starting this recently:

 

[Bremspropeller]

Gotta start mine as well some time. 😅

 

Just read this (mostly) over a recent business trip, after having it sitting in a shelve for the better part of a decade:

 

Nice one.

Edited June 26 by Bremspropeller

[Zooropa_Fly]

 

 

 

The fourth of Spikes seven WW2 memoires.

Hilarious in places.. makes you groan in others.

A priceless account of day to day life on the ground from Lance-Bombardier Milligan.

Well worth the read.

 

S! 

[Aurosa]

Just arrived.

 

Der rote Kampfflieger. English translation by J. Ellis Barker published in 1918 as The Red Battle Flyer.

 

Spoiler

 

Edited October 10 by Aurosa

[MDzmitry]

Currently reading Johnson's "Wing Leader", a rather entertaining read compared to Clostermann's drier "flight logs" approach. 

 

[Zooropa_Fly]

A good one for all you Feminists out there..

 

 

..then I think I'm going back to Spike.

[Trooper117]

Olly used to come to our S/NCO's Mess do's... I can tell you it was never a quiet night. He was always full on!