My book-buying "problem"

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Chris C, Jul 6, 2018.

  1. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

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  2. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    Why do they keep doing this? Another one for the list .....
    From Tankograd in January 2019
    The First T-34 Birth of a Legend : The T-34 Model 1940


    216 pp

    https://www.tankograd.com/cms/websit...-2018-Dezember

    Tankograd do good work and the excerpts look good. Content also looks promising as well,
     
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  3. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Oh dear...
    That is really tempting.


    Edit: Can't find it on their UK supplier pre-order link.
    Maybe the urge will dissipate before it appears. :unsure:
     
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  4. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    They clearly want to pry the last dollar from your wallet :)
     
  5. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

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    TD
     
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  6. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I have liked this, for it's veracity.
    But... shurrup.
    I can handle it.
    I've just got a cold is all.
     
  7. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

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  8. SDP

    SDP Incurable Cometoholic

    As I've intimated previously, buying books is not a problem - there are so many out there to choose from.....
     
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  9. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Who needs books when you have ............ LEGO



    TD



     
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  10. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Gordon Beccles - Tanks Advance! 1942
    Pitman's Pocket Handbook - Tanks 1943
    Peter Doyle - Remembering Tommy.

    Mildly irked as I got the Beccles nonsense largely for a garish cover, but it arrived without.
    The Pitman is funny. Printed on that wartime toilet paper, & the Axis tanks look like drawings of recognition models. Nice, slightly irritable preface too. (I paid 99p for it - do not pay much more! It's on some sellers for c.£15... Just no.)
    Got the WW1 one on a whim, as Mr Reed & others have mentioned it often elsewhere. Really very good.

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    What 'Tanks advance' is supposed to look like. Harumph.
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  11. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Whoops.

    Cosham still not the nicest place, but a brilliant bookshop that used to be in Southsea has re-emerged there.
    I had not set out to buy anything on either beute T34s or Kubels, but the man offers deals when he sees you umm-ing & ah-ing...
    The bugger.

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  12. Tom OBrien

    Tom OBrien Senior Member

    VP,

    What's the name of the Cosham bookshop? That's dangerously near work for me!

    Regards

    Tom
     
  13. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    'New-To-You Books', Tom.
    You may recall a fine little place on Albert Road in Southsea. Seems the same.
    New stuff in the front. Second-hand round the back.

    New to You Books
    56B High St, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3AG
    023 9232 1089 https://g.co/kgs/8VxmXE
     
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  14. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    I'm thinking about making a stop at that store on my trip to the UK in March! :D
     
  15. m kenny

    m kenny Senior Member

  16. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    My BBP was eased this week when a friend popped round and gave me two books he had in his collection. King Rat, by James Clavell and With the Jocks, by Peter White.
     
  17. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Not sure I'd want to divert an international trip to Cosham! (Though a brief stop on the way into Pompey's military sights makes sense.}

    There is a military bookshop down the coast in Lewes, though. Was always a bit special.
    If it's still open. Not been for years.
    Ah, still there:
    Lewes Book Centre
    38 Cliffe High St, Lewes BN7 2AN
    01273 487053 https://g.co/kgs/A1R5qh

    If you want to actually handle all the stuff you wonder about online to see if it's any good, I've never been to better outside of Beltring.
     
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  18. Swiper

    Swiper Resident Sospan

    General, related, headsup Naval and Military Press sale is back.

    I've totally not trawled it and spent a few pennies.

    On a side, there's been a marked decline in quality of booksellers at Belters.
     
  19. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Only one temptation for me. Anybody looked at this?

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    Earlier edition had a different title & reviews suggest it was an academic paper, not a biography. Is it the same text or a re-edit?

    Orde Wingate: Unconventional Warrior - from the 1920s to the Twenty-First Century

     
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  20. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Indeed! If I'm travelling on a rail pass I don't think it should be too onerous to get off the train at Cosham station to walk to the shop and I could then get back on again. I'll be taking in the harbour and the D-day museum in Pompey.
     
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