My book-buying "problem"

Do you have an email I can use?

 

Another from a different era but looks like it will be a cracking read.

 

That sounds great! Let us know how it is.

 

Donated two books to the volunteer-run book room at the Canadian War Museum.

Then my friend Brad gave me this little Ian Allen book (clearly dates to the 50s as Conqueror is in service). And the book room had Warpath - a history of the Algonquin Regiment - and Clio's Warriors, which I've been hoping to find for some time. It's a look at Canadian WW2 historiography, as in how the official histories came to be written and the struggles to access British and American archives, and history-writing in Canada since.

 

Recent arrivals:

NMP reprint of the title

 

Three recent purchases by me. Serve a dual purpose of being interesting topics in of themselves, but also using them as inspiration for putting together my own book. What does and doesn't work, layout, content, etc.

 

Aaaaghhhh it's a book on the M-10 that I don't have yet! Damnit!

 

Looks really interesting, this.

 

Gotta have.

I swore I'd never get into 'B' vehicles. But I'm getting into 'B' vehicles.......

 

No idea what it's like. Think I've read his book about artillery which was quite good...

 

I haven't bought a book in ages!! Am I finally weaning myself off this obsession?

 

No.

 

This book was one of my first specifically ‘Tank’ books. I found it t be a good general introduction to the subject.

 

Is Jellicoe's book on Jutland important to the topic? I have one in very good condition that is ready to be passed on. Postage only if outside the US. Can't let Otto get ALL the good ones, now can we.

 

Careful now - 'B' vehicles can be addictive, y'know . . .

 

You won't be disappointed Chris. It's an honest, sometimes scathing, assessment of 2NZEF.

 

Spent a bit much last month and vowed to abstain until Christmas, but then a rare one from my want-list came on sale for slightly more than I'd liked to have paid, so I bought it.

Ronald Wingate's biography of Pug Ismay.

Scarce and in superior nick—surely justifiable?

 

There is never an end to research.

I have copies of the translated Japanese officials on the NEI, so needed the the Dutch officials covering the same campaign. A set of Nederlands-Indië contra Japan now shares the same shelf as the three volumes of the Japanese history. I have searched for this set off and on over several decades. I examined picking up individual volumes over time, but the volume on Java remained elusive. After working for 15 years to find a missing volume of Einzelschriften über den Russisch-japanischer Krieg (I did finally succeed), I swore not to attempt to collect a rare set by piecemeal again unless there are strong indications that all the volumes will show up for sale at some point.

This set is in beautiful condition and includes all the separate maps and most surprisingly the errata inserts for the volumes.


The Dutch officials for May 1940 have been on my radar as well. I have found a few volumes, but quite expensive and no indication that all the volumes are obtainable.

Pista! Jeff