My book-buying "problem"

He was in Norway initially, survived a sinking on the way back to the UK and then went to the Middle East in a staff capacity. It’s a cracking book, I put a little review on here a while back.

 

Cheers--will track it down.

 

I can see and hear Palin as the shopkeeper.

 

Do you have Rarnaby Budge?

 

Some more trickle ins:

 

My latest acquisitions. A bargain both for € 20,00 (SAS-book in hardcover, which normally does € 32,00):

 

Bugger.

I found a bound collection of The Kukri: The Journal of the Brigade of Gurkhas on eBay:

Volume 4 1952
Volume 5 1953
Volume 6 1954

They're hard to come by, so £75 incl. postage is pretty reasonable—and as you know, I have a specific interest in Malaya at this stage—but I really shouldn't be spending more at this time of year, so I decided to leave it overnight on the rationale that someone was highly likely to swoop and remove temptation from my gaze.

Only they didn't.

So with willpower dialed up a notch, I waited another day.

And they still didn't.

So, in order to assure myself that I had tried to acquire this very useful contemporary source, I put in a £60 offer, expecting the seller to reject it.

But they didn't.

So now I've bought it.

Bugger.

 

Why oh why
The Raging of the Deep by Alfred Draper

 

I really liked his Dawns Like Thunder on the retreat from Burma.

 

oh thanks yet another
you are really not helping

taxi

 

And so it goes.

 

Needed to get out the house and ended up in Waterstones -50% off all hardbacks for next 3 days! Treated myself to this...

Was going to wait as it's £40 but 50% off was definite bargin. At the till discovered had £20 on my loyalty card so ended up spending nothing

 

Mine is still en route but will arrive today, got about 30% off. Hardcover for € 31,00, instead of € 46,00.

 

I found this under the Xmas tree a few days ago and assume it was meant for me.



NEW BOOK - Roy's Boys by Christopher Jary (1st Bn in Sicily in WW2) - The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum

Regards

Tom

 

https://www.panzerregiment1.com/

This just arrived here in Canada and it is very impressive. Great to see some excellent independent works still being published.

 

A purchase made on the back of a conversation I had this afternoon..

 

May not have mentioned - I got this for Christmas. Still haven't had the chance to dig into it yet

 

I found this an interesting read especially about the recruitment, posting and promotion process and its improvements during the War

 

Became aware of a private publication of a Dunkirk memoir—by a full general, no less (how did I miss it before?)

This one:
The story of one Green Howard in the Dunkirk campaign

General Sir Harold E Franklyn:
Harold Franklyn - Wikipedia

Then, the next day, a catalogue from a serially overpricing bookseller (name by private message) came in, featuring this sixty-page book at £65 ('rare'), but two minutes on Google turned up a perfectly decent copy for £15, so I had to really.

I had to, I tell you.

 

I got all excited by one of their Indian regimentals. Thankfully, going through the same process resulted in Amazon telling me I'd already got it

It's a pity Ebay doesn't tell you...