SeaW0lf Posted July 31, 2018 Posted July 31, 2018 I'm reading "Sopwith Triplane Aces of World War 1", from Norman Franks, and I got "Sopwith, the Man and His Aircraft" (might be next).
Jodet Posted July 31, 2018 Posted July 31, 2018 I just finished what may be my favorite book of all time: 'Hero' by Michael Korda, a biography of T.E. Lawrence. So yes, very much about WW1. But what Lawrence did after the war was the most interesting part of the book. HIGHLY recommended.
unreasonable Posted August 8, 2018 Posted August 8, 2018 Something completely different - although it does go back to the Plato discussion in a round about way - is "All the Kremlin's Men" by Mikhail Zygar a Russian independent journalist, ( ie not one of the usual Yank neocons that like to opine on subjects of this nature). If you want to know how and why Russia has turned out how it has over the last couple of decades I cannot find a better read. Interesting, funny and sad. Impossible to discuss at length here due to the forum sensitivities, but for anyone interested in geopolitics I cannot recommend it highly enough. 1
Herne Posted August 8, 2018 Posted August 8, 2018 I don't have enough free time these days, and what little me time I have I usually like to spend as much of it geeking on my PC as I can get away with. I recently discovered Audio Books, and I listened to all the "Expanse" novels on my daily commute to work. Currently waiting for the next novel in the series to be released. If you like sci fi, then i cannot recommend the Expanse highly enough.
Gambit21 Posted August 11, 2018 Posted August 11, 2018 On 7/27/2018 at 2:33 PM, CanadaOne said: I think I'm on my fourth copy of that book. I'd lend it out, never get it back, buy it again, lend it out, never get it back, wash, rinse, repeat. No one gets the copy I have. I read it back in the day. Makes a decent fly swatter.
CanadaOne Posted August 11, 2018 Author Posted August 11, 2018 11 hours ago, Gambit21 said: I read it back in the day. Makes a decent fly swatter. If you can handle the ____________, I would have thought you understood every word of that book. Ii understood more of the book that the _________. I thought it was a great book. ?
Gambit21 Posted August 11, 2018 Posted August 11, 2018 1 hour ago, CanadaOne said: If you can handle the ____________, I would have thought you understood every word of that book. Ii understood more of the book that the _________. I thought it was a great book. ? I understood every word. I’ve read his stuff, Kaku, Green... I prefer an author that can speak his language but isn’t afflicted with his blinders. Not saying the other two authors I mention qualify in that respect either.
CanadaOne Posted August 12, 2018 Author Posted August 12, 2018 23 hours ago, Gambit21 said: I understood every word. I’ve read his stuff, Kaku, Green... I prefer an author that can speak his language but isn’t afflicted with his blinders. Not saying the other two authors I mention qualify in that respect either. Interesting. Tell me about the blinders, not exactly sure what you mean.
Stumble Posted August 14, 2018 Posted August 14, 2018 Can anyone recommend a good WW1 airplane fighter novel for me to read? Thanks, Stumble.
Feathered_IV Posted August 14, 2018 Posted August 14, 2018 I enjoyed Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson when I was younger. These days however I find myself wishing for some slightly abridged versions of his books... Preferably ones with all the magic mushroom dad jokes removed. If that fails, there is always Biggles of 266. 1
Diggun Posted August 14, 2018 Posted August 14, 2018 28 minutes ago, Stumble said: Can anyone recommend a good WW1 airplane fighter novel for me to read? 14 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said: I enjoyed Goshawk Squadron 2nd'ed. I'd also heartily recommend Saggitarius Rising by Cecil Lewis. Not a novel; he was a 56 Squadron pilot, but boy, oh boy, can he write. The first line in SR is high in the running for best book openings ever: “There are fortunate men to whom life is a continuous developing pattern, whose education leads them on to a career that carries them, almost in spite of themselves to a place in the world from which, as their powers desert them, they withdraw to ease and seclusion, and whose final demise is as quiet and completing as the full stop at the end of a long and well-constructed sentence.”
CanadaOne Posted August 14, 2018 Author Posted August 14, 2018 I'm re-reading "Walden", by Henry David Thoreau. Truly one of the great books. Like some other books, it's not so much that you read it, past tense, but that you are reading it.
Diggun Posted August 14, 2018 Posted August 14, 2018 2 minutes ago, CanadaOne said: "Walden", by Henry David Thoreau I could never get along with Walden. HDT want's to 'live deep' and get away from society, so he moves a mile down the road, pops into town for dinner like 5 nights a week...
CanadaOne Posted August 14, 2018 Author Posted August 14, 2018 3 minutes ago, Diggun said: I could never get along with Walden. HDT want's to 'live deep' and get away from society, so he moves a mile down the road, pops into town for dinner like 5 nights a week... I hear ya. But I've lived in the big city, and alone in the boonies (no running water for five-years), and I found Walden a wonderful and insightful read. I still do.
Feathered_IV Posted August 14, 2018 Posted August 14, 2018 @Stumble Actually, Winged Victory by Victor Yeates is another one you had best look out for. It is ostensibly fiction, but written by someone who was really there. Perhaps as a way of writing about things the author could not admit to feeling himself. The fear and feeling of isolation. The loneliness of a condemned young man. The only other two books I've seen that equal it are From the City, From the Plough by Alexander Baron (reading it now) and the heartbreakingly lonely And Some Fell on Stony Ground: A Day in the Life of an RAF Bomber Pilot. An unpublished manuscript found among the personal possessions of the late Leslie Mann.
Bremspropeller Posted October 8, 2018 Posted October 8, 2018 Does anybody know any news about Christer Bergsröm's plans on re-vitalising the Black Cross Red Sta series? Volume 4 was supposed to come out this year, but I haven't heard any news on it for quite some time... http://www.bergstrombooks.elknet.pl/bc-rs/ I'm currently also waiting for the re-print of "Luftwaffe face au débarquement" which is supposed to be published shortly. https://www.editions-heimdal.fr/en/pre-orders/76-la-luftwaffe-face-au-debarquement-9782840484646.html
Juuuxie Posted October 14, 2018 Posted October 14, 2018 I am currently reading The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton. It is a great book for incite on the every day lives and culture of the ancient Roman people.
Legioneod Posted October 14, 2018 Posted October 14, 2018 https://www.amazon.com/Poilu-Notebooks-Corporal-Barrelmaker-1914-1918-ebook/dp/B00IPJGW82 https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195 Both very good first hand accounts about their experiences during WW1 and WW2 2
Finkeren Posted October 14, 2018 Posted October 14, 2018 I’ve finally started out on the Discworld series. It’s been a long time coming, and I must say that I’m having a good time.
HBPencil Posted October 14, 2018 Posted October 14, 2018 22 minutes ago, Finkeren said: I’ve finally started out on the Discworld series. It’s been a long time coming, and I must say that I’m having a good time. They're a damn good read all right, I especially like those concerning the character Sam Vimes and the Nightwatch.
PatCartier Posted October 14, 2018 Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, Legioneod said: https://www.amazon.com/Poilu-Notebooks-Corporal-Barrelmaker-1914-1918-ebook/dp/B00IPJGW82 I know this book, very interesting because it is not often we can read the meanings of a soldier, not an officer. Edited October 14, 2018 by PatCartier
Bremspropeller Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 Anybody have volume 4 of Chris Shores' "Mediterranean Air War" yet?
DB605 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 Currently reading finnish version of Richard Freiherr Von Rosen memoirs, "Panzer Ace" book.
Bremspropeller Posted October 24, 2018 Posted October 24, 2018 Good news from Jochen Prien: http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=52347
JG5_Schuck Posted October 24, 2018 Posted October 24, 2018 (edited) Just a couple to keep me going........ And a few more!!!! Edited October 24, 2018 by JG5_Schuck 2
Wolf8312 Posted October 28, 2018 Posted October 28, 2018 I'm reading 'to lose a battle france 1940' by Alistair Horne, and 'hookers' candid confessions of real call girls. I'm also listening to American Desperado: My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy and The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague on audible! 1
CanadaOne Posted November 4, 2018 Author Posted November 4, 2018 On 10/28/2018 at 2:51 PM, Wolf8312 said: I'm reading 'to lose a battle france 1940' by Alistair Horne, . . . I have that book but haven't gotten into it very much. This winter I'll read it. I read two of his other books, "What Price Glory" about Verdun, and "The Fall of Paris" about the Franco-Prussian war. Both were excellent, he's a fantastic write. "What Price Glory" was one of the best WWI books I've read, and I've gone through about twenty or thirty.
Wolf8312 Posted November 5, 2018 Posted November 5, 2018 9 hours ago, CanadaOne said: I have that book but haven't gotten into it very much. This winter I'll read it. Yeah its a great book but rather tough to get into at first as it deals alot with the political undercurrents responsible for frances destabalization durring that period, and can seem rather removed from the war itself at times, though it is still interesting to understand these factors. Picks up dramatically when it starts getting closer to the actual invasion though. Have you read the blitzkrieg Legend? I don't care much for the title and its misleading implications but the book itself was one of the best concerning the war on france in 1940.
9./JG27golani79 Posted November 17, 2018 Posted November 17, 2018 Started today with Spitfire on my Tail. 1
CanadaOne Posted November 17, 2018 Author Posted November 17, 2018 About to start Paradise Lost. Been wanting to read it for a while. Tried to find a copy with larger print ($8 used) but no luck. Gonna need my glasses, a good light, and patience. 1
1CGS LukeFF Posted November 19, 2018 1CGS Posted November 19, 2018 Still pushing through with Guns of August - about 75% of the way through. In the meanwhile, I picked up a copy of America's Hundred Thousand this week. Never knew it would be as thick as a phonebook!
Archie Posted November 19, 2018 Posted November 19, 2018 Lend-Lease and Soviet Aviation in the second world war by Vladimir Kotelnikov. 540 pages!
CanadaOne Posted November 20, 2018 Author Posted November 20, 2018 Picked up Crime and Punishment at a very cool used book store in Montreal. Going to read it after Paradise Lost. And the prose in Paradise Lost is like eating a gallon of Haagen-dasz per page. It's beyond lusciously rich. 1
=gRiJ=Roman- Posted December 9, 2018 Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) If you liked the Rudel´s book, you must read this one ... Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot (Helmut Mahlke). You are in the cockpit while reading the book and feel part of the action. I love it! Edited December 9, 2018 by 15[Span.]/JG51Spartan 1
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