What are you reading at the moment?

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Gage, Mar 12, 2006.

  1. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Well, I'm on holiday, and as I only had 80 pages left in the DCLI history and it's large I left it behind.

    I just finished reading Gunners on Tour by Maurice Court and overall liked it. There were certainly parts where there seemed to be too much Italian campaign history being rehashed, and there were a few errors, but good overall.

    I'm now actually going to take a stab at reading The Story of 79 Armoured Division from start to finish. I hope I get enough reading time in to read the whole thing. It's too fragile for me to take with me to and from work, so it's either this or read it in the evenings and try to keep at it.
     
    Tolbooth and bamboo43 like this.
  2. wtid45

    wtid45 Very Senior Member

    A Very Rude Awakening by Peter Gross. The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour.
     
    bamboo43 likes this.
  3. Warlord

    Warlord Veteran wannabe

    As usual, it had to be you, mate... Where did you get it? Just took a short trip down the web, and found only one seller (so far) at 33 quid; add to that S&H to my little country, and the thing gets rather expensive...

    Besides, Boer's job about ML-KNIL is still the main target of me scarce savings :oops:
     
  4. kopite

    kopite Member

    Just started "A Quiet Courage" by Liane Jones. The story of female SOE agents who parachuted into France.

    upload_2018-8-31_17-0-15.jpeg
     
    bamboo43 and Chris C like this.
  5. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Sounds a good book Kopite. I read something similar last year. Quiet Heroines, by Brenda McBryde. This focused on Nurses and their service during WW2.
     
    kopite likes this.
  6. Tolbooth

    Tolbooth Patron Patron

    Picked this up at Churchdown bookfair last week. Not sure after finishing this - still no date for moving house so rapidly running out of unboxed books..... :(

    [​IMG]

    :peepwalla: <----Me, surrounded by boxes of books
     
    Chris C and Tricky Dicky like this.
  7. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    Found it on ebay of all places when looking for a copy of the complete NGVR history.
    Just an FYI on two Osprey titles, one just out:
    [​IMG]

    and one just announced for 2019 : Campaign series: Java Sea 1942
     
    Waddell likes this.
  8. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    [​IMG]

    NMP repro. edition.
     
    Waddell likes this.
  9. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    There's some great material in there, but--as with the other two in the series--it's tricky to follow the narrative, especially in the see-saw (pendulum) stage of the Desert War ('41-'42) as the remit is to cover the Indian contribution in total and not a specific unit or formation. The lion's share of the text goes to 4th & 5th Ind Div, but there are an awful lot of battalions and field regiments moving between formations and many of them are differently numbered units of the same regiments.

    Still, for all that, it's one of the best sources available, along with Compton Mackenzie's never completed series, Eastern Epic.
     
    Last edited: Sep 4, 2018
  10. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    hitler1.jpg hitler2.jpg Got this from the library today, Graham.
     
    Tolbooth likes this.
  11. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    Been after this book for a while now.Saw it on ebay, 1st edition and signed.
    My uncle served with them before being killed at Monte Cassino. Graham. lanc1.jpg lanc2.jpg lanc3.jpg
     
    kopite, stolpi, bamboo43 and 2 others like this.
  12. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    I'm about to begin reading Aung San of Burma, by Dr. Maung Maung. I've always been interested in those who ran Burma politically just before and then after the Japanese occupation.

    1945 2.jpg
     
    ozzy16 and wtid45 like this.
  13. Tolbooth

    Tolbooth Patron Patron

    Not actually WW2 but one of my favourites;
    'The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War' by Jaroslav Hasek

    [​IMG]

    (I always suspected my father had a bit of Svejk in him)
     
  14. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Well, I actually didn't make much headway with 79 Armoured on my holiday and then went back to the DCLI history which I am almost finished.

    Since I didn't want to bring a 300+ page book to work to read 10 pages, today I started on --

    [​IMG]
     
    kopite likes this.
  15. Leeds Andy

    Leeds Andy Member

    On the recomendation of bamboo43 I am about to start reading

    Operation Rangoon Jail by Colonel K.P. MacKenzie.
     
    bamboo43 likes this.
  16. Warlord

    Warlord Veteran wannabe

    Have a look... :D ABDA-CBI-SEAC. Book thread.
     
  17. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Incidentally... Some thoughts on the DCLI history.

    It was definitely long, but with the number of units covered that's understandable.

    I found it very interesting to get a broader portrait of what soldiers might be doing in the war. I mean, intellectually I knew there were men guarding things in the UK and POW camps in Africa but I had not read anything about them until reading about e.g. 30 DCLI.

    On the other hand the writer had a pretty good knack of conveying the larger context of an operation, while at the same time often the activities of a DCLI battalion like 5DCLI would be receive a very detailed account. The maps were really clear too.

    Highly recommended.
     
    ozzy16 likes this.
  18. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    [​IMG] [​IMG]

    Picked up these two books recently. Not a player of World of Tanks and I'd recommend overlooking that connection entirely. What you've got here are two translated books by Russian tank experts available in English for the first time. Lots of interesting source documents and material to go through with a great selection of images. All in all if you're interested in Soviet World War Two armour worth taking a look.

    Site link: Current Special - World of Tanks Books
     
    Chris C likes this.
  19. kopite

    kopite Member

    I’m on a SOE binge at the moment and have just started reading “Déricourt: The Chequered Spy” by Jean Overton Fuller.

    Was Déricourt a double agent and an informer for the German security services and responsible for the arrest and ultimately the deaths of many SOE agents in France, all in cahoots with a mole in SOE headquarters in London? Perhaps we’ll never know, but it makes for fascinating reading.

    upload_2018-9-16_21-10-47.jpeg
     
    Last edited: Sep 17, 2018
    bamboo43 likes this.
  20. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Have just started to read "All my brothers" the definitive and lovely book about the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles by the late Edmund O'Sullivan.

    I first knew of the Rgt when I was in the 49th LAA ,78 Div, in Tunisia and we moved onward to Sicily & Italy . Later, by one of those queer quirks of fate,when my Rgt was disbanded in October 1944, I re-trained in the RAC and joined the 4th Queen's Own Hussars.

    In 1945 it was the troops of the London Irish Rifles that our Kangaroos carried into battle .

    Can't wait to get to that stage of the book !

    Ron
     
    kopite, Chris C and bexley84 like this.

Share This Page