What are you reading?

[Paul @ Warlord Games]

I'm already preparing to start a new army based on Slim's 14th 'lost' army. Conversions ago-go!

Good timing that the latest edition of Miniatures Wargames has a large feature on the war in Burma

Now I just need to find suitable resources for uniform and equipment colours...

[Suetonius Paullinus]

I'm already preparing to start a new army based on Slim's 14th 'lost' army. Conversions ago-go!

Good timing that the latest edition of Miniatures Wargames has a large feature on the war in Burma

Now I just need to find suitable resources for uniform and equipment colours...

Very cool project!!
I hope you will keep us posted on your progress

Cheers

SP

[stampedingviking]

Nearly finished The Crimean War by Hugh Small, previous to that it was Death Or Victory: The Battle For Quebec And The Birth Of Empire by Dan Snow.

Next will be Over Fields Of Fire: Flying The Sturmovik Over The Eastern Front 1942-45 by Anna Timofeeva. The title's nearly as long as the book!

[dinomog]

Just started a book named "Waterloo 1815"
It is the first proper book about the Napoleonic wars written
in Swedish! Everything prior was translations from brittish/american books.

[Cubster]

I've just started a dusty old tome from my shelf called 'A Man Called Intrepid'. It was part of a tatty batch my FiL sent across to us and I put it straight on the shelf and forgot about, then I finished my book the other day and just grabbed it for some 'quality time' in the bathroom.

It is the most compelling book I can remember reading and packed with fascinating little-known snippets. So far it is detailing 'Intrepid' himself, William Stephenson, a Canadian pilot during WWI who was an early pioneer of radio and electronics, being a self-made millionaire who built an industrial empire before he was out of his twenties.

He was one of the driving forces of cryptography and intelligence work between the wars when the American and British governments refused to believe the warnings from those who could see German rearmament happening quite openly. Instead it was left to amateurs operating under the official radar (funded via Royal coffers in Britain!), the US and UK groups working separately and also cooperating at times.

So far it's just got to 1940 and the role intelligence info snatched from the airwaves and decoded, had on the Polish and Finnish invasions. It is just a superb read, I don't know if it's still in print.

[BigMike]

Just recieved Marc Morris on castles and the Norman Conquest. He gave a very good interview on the BBC history podcast and i look forward to reading them very much.

[redben]

"The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire" by Edward Luttwak, "The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East" by Benjamin Isaac and "The Marriage of Roman Soldiers" by Sara Phang.

[Big Al]

Snuff by Terry Pratchett! Well, why not? He's an excellent author and hilarious too! Non historical, although he sometimes makes references or parallels, but fantastic nontheless.

[clivethecelt]

Sounds better than my last fiction read. Perhaps I'm not her sort of reader, but Carvel lent me "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Attwood. I was taking a break from "The Mighty Endeavor"; the books on the Greek wars (Killer of Men, Marathon) I borrowed were nice, easy reading, but Attwood's book - very cutting, satirical, and a very dark mirror of our broken society - was a bit heavy going. Anyone read Wolf Hall? I understand there's a second book forthcoming; I know WH had rave reviews and won prizes, but ... Ms Mantel's other writings and interviews leave me cold.

[Parus Ater]

I've added "Road To Victory" by Pfc Morris Prince, 2nd Rangers, Able Co to my lavy books so I'm working my way through that again. It was written in 1945 so it's very fresh.