What are you reading at the moment?

Currently translating/reading...


Many first hand accounts, photographs, and a section of color maps.

 

In Strome Galloway's Bravely Into Battle, he uses the term FUD. What is FUD in the Canadian Army?

 

Hard to find isn’t it, I couldn’t see it on any list of Canadian military definitions I just found online, although maybe I’ve not seen them all.

I found one meaning, “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt”, but that seems to be linked to finance, so I’m not sure that applies to what you’re reading.

 

Could you provide the context, riter ? The only thing I can think of is Forming Up... something? I can't imagine what the D would be.

 

I saw Forming Up Place come up in my search, but it’s obviously not that. Then I pondered Forming Up Depot instead, but it just didn’t look right. I’m now very much shooting in the dark.

 

Sorry, FUP and not Fud. page 184 of Bravely Into Battle:

"Having decided that the relief would be masked by a hit-and-run raid, ourr planners got busy with their maps and aerial photos. The plan looked pretty good. The best approach had been selected. The best FUP had been spotted. The most energetic company commandy had been warned and he had decided to use his two best platoons. Nothing would be left to chance."

 

Now onto Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City by Peter Harmsen.

 

Forming up point.

I suspect.

 

I agree with Charley, Forming Up Point.

 

Thanks one and all.

 

As we are off to Slovenia this year I thought I ought to read this.
I thought I'd put The Great War to bed in 2018 but obviously not.

 

Owen,

Had a week in Slovenia a few years ago, with day on the karst (name of a type of rock) plateau that was fought over. Horrible, grim place even in the sunshine, as the karst burst into small pieces when hit by artillery. There is an observation tower built recently by the Slovenes to look over the plateau. Went to an Italian war memorial too.

 

Just finished Al Nofi's (editor) Fred Grant at Vicksburg. Grant gave his twelve year old son access to the battlefields. Fred has the curiouslity of a boy and gives describes his experiences there. Too bad he got sick at times and could give any entry/reminiscences of the siege during certain periods.

 

I also recommend "Sand & Steel" by Peter Caddick Adams.

I hold the A Squadron diary up to Op Goodwood when the OC, Major Clifford, was medevaced to the UK due to a combination of multiple wounds, infection and ill health.

 

Presently reading Jochaim Fest's Not I. Read the Etian si omnes - ego non! (Even if all others do, not I!) passage and learned that they had a kriegspiel for naval warfare. Like today's board games, dice were used to determine the outcome.

 

Huh, that's interesting!

I picked up "Through Their Eyes" by Matthew Barrett and Robert C Engen. The subtitle, "A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War" is fairly self-explanatory, but to be clear - it's FWW history in graphic novel format. It's a thick hardcover, and still pretty academic - the first chapter cross-examines photos of the time, e.g. the use of pre-staged photographs like "Over The Top".

 

Just flagged 419 books to be transferred to the Naval Historical Foundation in DC. I'll hang on to the rest for a while.

This one might be one you folks are familiar with:

Title
The Grand Fleet, 1914-1916: Its Creation, Development, and Work
Author
John Rushworth Jellicoe
Publication
Cassell and company, ltd (1919), Edition: First Edition

 

Finished In The Skies Over Europe. I learned how to hunt moose in Finland:

 

I don’t know if this is going to be as good as his, “The Longest Day”, but so far it has kept my interest. I am on page 169.

 

I am currently plowing through all sorts of 50th Division material. Thanks be to God, many of the war diaries are now digitized and available at ancestry.com and normandywarguide.com.