My book-buying "problem"

If this addiction was a criminal offence you would get a full life term

 

Not what I was looking for...

 

RAF in the battle of France/Britain - Greg Baughen
You Never Know Your Luck - Ogilvie
Boy Airman - Petty
Escaping from the Kaiser - Tustin
I Escape - Hardy
Rovers of the Night Sky - Night Hawk MC

plus a book about Egypt as a gift.

 

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and employed as a trustee in the prison library.

 

Trawling through the bookanet happened across this review for Commando comics .
Let me leave this one with you.


"I love these Commando books as they take me back to my childhood...I have nearly 2,000 books( 10/12 )..3 story books and comics..and so I have enough stories to keep me going until my death."

 

The Crete guidebook by Tim Saunders is excellent and really easy to follow when you're on the ground there with it.

 

Off with the Bookfairies yesterday and picked up these - 'The Funnies' and 'Ack-Ack'.

I was sorely tempted by this though

'Bridging Normandy to Berlin', 1946. A RE book showing every bridge built by the Engineers in NWE. Was quite splendid but alas, despite my best efforts couldn't convince myself.


If any of you feel you can't live without and are still flush after Xmas, message me and I'll let you have the dealers details

 

Well there I was, harmlessly browsing the various Sicily threads yesterday afternoon when I came across plnelson’s thread from 2016 looking for books on the Italian campaign. Foolhardily, I stumbled in. £33 later I am now expecting the following:

The Long Road Home - Fred Cederberg

And No Birds Sang - Farley Mowat

The Fortress - Raleigh Trevelyan

Charlie Company - Peter Cochrane

Not All Of Us Were Brave - Stanley Scislowski

Mind you, I calls that a flipping bargain, especially as the postage accounts for a bit of that. Add these to my Christmas literary goodies and I am well sorted for a while. Or am I...

Note to self for next few weeks, avoid threads beginning “Looking for any books...”

 

The result of the annual struggle to find new books on which to spend an Amazon voucher:

 

That looks potentially good.

Grateful if you could do me a favour and let me know whether the '51 section has anything whatsoever on Hong Kong. I'm very interested in camps/barracks/dates for the various units.

28th Commonwealth Brigade was formed around the nucleus of the 28th (British) Infantry Brigade which arrived as reinforcements for Hong Kong from the UK in 1949, just prior to the Communists' victory in the Chinese Civil War.

It was originally part of 40th Infantry Division and didn't detach and ship to Korea until April '51.

 

Currently sailing across the 'pond' to me on a slow steamer:

 

I wonder where the Home Guard chaps found the khukuris?

 

VP, what's the photo credit for the cover image?

Two things spring to mind:

First, I've read of a few former (retired) Gurkha officers who were enthusiastic members of the Home Guard--at least one wrote a widely circulated training pamphlet.

Second, a representative party of 4th Indian Division visited the UK in Sept 1943 and did a well-publicised tour of military and civilian institutions before tea and medals at the palace. There were lots of photos of their meeting dignitaries and local troops.

Media event:



Source:
Fourth Indian Division (Visit of Representatives, Great Britain) (Hansard, 24 June 1943)

Lots here on their visiting Blitz bombing sites in Shoreditch:

Ladies and gentlemen, today Shoreditch has been given the honour, the very great honour of welcoming to East London a portion of the Indian contingent who has done so remarkably well in the war in North Africa [cheers and applause]. Shoreditch, as our visitors will see in the immediate neighbourhood, has been very badly dealt with by the enemy. But let me assure our very honoured guests no tears are being shed because Shoreditch could take it, with other East End boroughs [applause]. We of the East End of London have suffered the full blast of German ‘culture’, whatever that might mean. While making no apologies, but all we do hope is that as East London took it, Germany will take her medicine in the same way [applause]...East End mayors of London, the Mayor of Hackney....I don’t feel a bit nervous [laughter] that when I look and see that an Indian gentleman, who was decorated by His Majesty the King with a Victoria Cross, is sitting next to my wife [laughter and applause]. My only complaint against him is, he didn’t kill sufficient! However I welcome him and I honour him and I pay homage to him for his wonderful bravery [cheering and applause]. I’m more than pleased to know that he is a member of the Gurkha Regiment. [cheering and applause]....In command of the Indian contingent, and I’m now going to ask him to say a few words to you people. But before I do so can I pay a compliment to the Indians and I turn to them and I say, speaking as I am for the East End of London, ‘Thank you for all you have done’. Thank all of India, that wonderful nation. And may we all pray that something will come along that will make us at the end of this war a happy nation and in unity with the all of the British Empire. I voice those opinions, because I feel...Before Lieutenant-Colonel Scott’s speech, I’m sure you’d like to meet them personally. I’m going to ask Lieutenant Kelly to announce the names of all the Indians who are present with us. Now give ’em a Shoreditch welcome! [Lieutenant Kelly speaking] Subedar Major Agandhar Kandakar IOM 1st 9th Gurkha Rifles. [applause] Subedar…[cheering and applause] that was Subedar Lalbahadur Thapa, VC, 1st 2nd Gurkha Rifles.

Source:
HEROES OF 4TH INDIAN DIVISION VISIT BOMB-DAMAGED EAST END OF LONDON | colonialfilm

 

Good book on a really interesting and strangely neglected subject. I think I got my copy years ago from the shop at Bovington.

 

Chris have you noticed the book review on Amazon?

Amazon.com: Customer reviews: The Forgotten Victor: General Sir Richard O'Connor, Kt, Gcb, Dso, Mc

Quote: My copy has a strange printing error. There is a gap between pages 122 and 139, covering the time of O'Connor's capture. Then pages 140-146 are repeated. It is a used book, but the flaw appears to have been original, and may account for how it ended up in the resale market. I may borrow a copy through Inter-library loan, and append this review once I get a chance to read these vital pages. My four-star rating does not reflect the printing problem; I reviewed it as if there were no missing pages. All in all this a readable and good-quality biography.

 

I have the 1989 first edition and it does not have this error.

Sounds like a limited error at the printers (not the compositor's office).