My book-buying "problem"

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

  1. Nick the Noodle

    Nick the Noodle Active Member

    We're all on a diet, since we're a bit lardy at present. Losing about a stone a year at present, which is good.

    Among the very many books I've yet to read, I've 27 Panzer Tract volumes to wade through.
     
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  2. idler

    idler GeneralList

    So it's not like she's going to notice an extra one slipped into the pile...

    Which reminds me, I've got some recent deliveries to disperse...
     
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  3. JeremyC

    JeremyC Well-Known Member

    Yeeess - it's amazing how good I'm getting at intercepting the postman It's those pesky couriers that are the problem, turning up at any old time of the day . . .
     
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  4. Markyboy

    Markyboy Member

    Ended up in the Tunbridge Wells aviation bookshop today. Very restrained despite the 50% discount week and picked up a copy of Whitley Boys. Then went to the Oxfam bookshop and got a signed copy of the Wooden Horse for £5. Two more for the bookshelf!
     
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  5. Don Juan

    Don Juan Well-Known Member

    This version is actually going to be replaced by a lower production quality black and white version for general (i.e. Amazon) release, so it really is an investment.
     
  6. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    Here’s a selection. Mixture of satellite shots , contemporary maps and current maps
    Hope this illuminates !
     

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  7. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Thanks! Those are good :)
     
  8. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

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    Self-published in 1984 by J. Daniel Mullin,who served on the USS Ford during the Java Campaign. Packed with first person accounts (some Dutch) from sailors who fought in this period. Used as a source for a lot of the histories of the campaign that followed.

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  9. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    I got this on Saturday from the author. I had no intention of buying this book because the air war is not my focus, but I couldn't NOT do it when I was there talking to him. (He's done a bunch of podcast episodes for the Juno Centre so I recognized his voice.) And honestly it was worth it for the first chapter, on the planning of Husky.

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  10. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

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  11. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    Never read anything about the French in WW2 so picked this up in an antique shop and am I glad a very good read indeed :)
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  12. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member


    It covers all losses and it does cover the Falklands as well. The title should actually go to 1984 as the last loss covered is from that year:
    1984 24 April LCVP 120 landing craft, vehicles and personnel
    Poole 1959; 8.5 tons 41.5 ft x10 ft
    Whilst under tow off Portland, she foundered when her bow ramp accidentally dropped open, causing her to flood and rapidly sink. The wreck lies in position 50.39.36N 01.50.42W

    Also included are chapters of losses of minor landing craft 1939-1945. Submarines are also covered as well.

    First loss detailed in the book is the trawler James Fennell commanded by Lt. White RNR and armed with 1 12 pdr which ran aground near Portland Jan 16, 1920.

    This was the author's previous work:
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  13. BFBSM

    BFBSM Very Senior Member

    I bought this soon after publication. It is an interesting book, but packed with disappointing editorial errors. There are so many tautological errors it is frustrating, it is worth reading though.

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  14. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    It sounds like it would drive me batty :D
     
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  15. BFBSM

    BFBSM Very Senior Member

    I am reading in blocks, so it isn’t too bad.
     
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  16. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    I visited the exhibition in Bray Dunes last week and came away with another book. French language only, but packed with photographs including aerial views of the abandoned vehicles inland.

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    The exhibition itself was more than impressive. As per usual, I went along expecting to nit-pick British kit, and quite frankly I couldn't. If only Christopher Nolan could have seen it first....

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  17. DogDodger

    DogDodger Active Member

    I've been looking at that one but wondering if it provides anything new beyond Fletcher, Pidgeon, Harris, Childs, Campbell, Glanfield, Lidell Hart, Fuller, Martel, Swinton, Stern, etc. etc.
     
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  18. BFBSM

    BFBSM Very Senior Member

    More in depth than Liddell Hart and Fuller, it quotes a number of the others also the descriptions of the actions are superior to those books I have read.
     
  19. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    My first purchase for quite a while is Cobham Remembers, WW2 and its Impact on a Surrey Village. It hasn't arrived yet, but looking forward to reading it.



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  20. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

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    Another fascinating looking arrival. This forum gets a shout out in the acknowledgements.
     

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