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« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2012, 12:06:02 am » |
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« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2012, 04:28:21 pm » |
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I'll check that out later tonight. Thanks for the addition.
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« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2012, 04:40:00 pm » |
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Actually it is A World on Fire by Amanda Foreman. Its about the United Kingdom and the American Civil War.
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« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2012, 02:16:11 pm » |
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Wife took a book out of the library for me: Panzer IV.
Thing is keep answering posts like this, so have only read 40 pages.
Is very good. Makes me want to go back to Bovington Tank Museum again.
I taught my daughter to recognise a Tiger before she was two.
Am I obsessed?
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« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2012, 06:08:40 pm » |
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I just finished The Bourne Sanction and have one part left in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. Then I think that I am going to try and finish Patriot Games by Tom Clancy. After I saw the movie for that at the end of last year I decided to read it and it is slow going. Can't wait to get through it so I can move on to something else. Maybe Isaac Asimov or another Stephen King book.
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« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2012, 03:19:00 pm » |
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Nearly finished the published Game of Thrones books; don't much like the official Diplomacy game so really hoping for a more fluid strategic wargame set in Westeros, ideally something along the lines of Kingmaker, but with plastic units.
Anyone know if there's a game in development along these lines?
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« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2012, 02:48:34 am » |
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'Astrology, Psychology and The Four Elements' by Stephen Arroyo, M.A. Fascinating book.  |
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« Reply #22 on: July 05, 2012, 03:50:12 am » |
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Have finished John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." Still reading Ernst Junger's "Storm of Steel." Will reread "Lee's Miserables" next. I am greatly enjoying "Storm of Steel." Can't put the book down.
Addendum: The full title of 'Lee's Miserables' is: "Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Wilderness from the Wilderness to Appomatox." It's bottom up history told from the soldier's point of view without the Marxist-Feminist garbage so frequently seen in bottom-up history. It's NOT a study in command, so Douglas Southall Freeman fans will be disappointed. With this book, I became more of a fan of the ANV in its last years than from its glory days (1862-1863). I think one of the fair criticisms of the book was its overlook of religious revivals. I initially shrugged off the book in 2000 when I saw it 'promoted' by academics. I usually ignore what ever certified or mainstream historians/academics have to say about a subject. They were actually fair in speaking accolades about the book. Rare, but it does happen. The author's mentor was Clyde Wilson, a Neo-Confederate and college professor in South Carolina-a much hated man by Leftist academia. Clyde Wilson is also the editor of the John C. Calhoun papers.
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« Reply #23 on: July 05, 2012, 10:39:09 am » |
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I will reread one of my Civil War books because of you. Was going to be: Forts Henry and Donelson, but all this talk of July 3rd...
So I still cannot decide.
And I still have not opened my Osprey campaign book on "Pointblank" I got for Father's Day!
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« Reply #24 on: July 05, 2012, 12:41:41 pm » |
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CD and Wittman you guys would like Men of Fire by Jack Hurst.
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« Reply #25 on: July 05, 2012, 02:09:52 pm » |
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Thank you EB. Will have a look. Do not read enough fiction(my ex English teacher mother says).
Interesting to hear you are from WVa. Big surprise. Dying to drive around Virginia.
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« Reply #26 on: July 05, 2012, 02:13:49 pm » |
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Men of Fire is actually nonfiction. Its about Grant and Forrest and the campaign that decided the American Civil War.
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« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2012, 02:51:07 pm » |
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Oops. Just looked it up on Amazon. Definitely my thing. Want to get to the bottom of the: whose fault was the Western 62 set up?
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« Reply #28 on: July 06, 2012, 12:33:33 am » |
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I will reread one of my Civil War books because of you. Was going to be: Forts Henry and Donelson, but all this talk of July 3rd...
So I still cannot decide.
And I still have not opened my Osprey campaign book on "Pointblank" I got for Father's Day!
Ok, I rarely do what I'm about to do. But, I've read enough of your posts and seen enough of your interests to know that you might really enjoy "Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign" by Scott Bowden and Bill Ward. I'm curious what you think about the book. Would love to know your thoughts on it. |
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« Reply #29 on: July 06, 2012, 12:35:09 am » |
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Wife took a book out of the library for me: Panzer IV.
Thing is keep answering posts like this, so have only read 40 pages.
Is very good. Makes me want to go back to Bovington Tank Museum again.
I taught my daughter to recognise a Tiger before she was two.
Am I obsessed?
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