Current Reading - September 2019
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1Shrike58
Finished the semi-memoir Glider Infantryman (B) this evening. While it's sometimes hard to separate the nominal author's contribution from that of the actual writer the book met my requirements of giving me a better sense of what World War II was like for the "glider gang." It's not as though we're going to get that many more first-person accounts of the "Good War."
2jztemple
Finished a short but interesting Coronel and the Falklands by Geoffrey Bennett.
3jztemple
Finished a short Churchill's Bunker: The Cabinet War Rooms and the Culture of Secrecy in Wartime London by Richard Holmes. Meh.
4jztemple
Finished my latest Kindle book, By Fire and Bayonet: Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794 by Steve Brown.
5Ammianus
Rereading one of the best collections of memoirs from the First World War:
The War the Infantry Knew by J.C. Dunn. Captain J.c. Dunn, a medical officer in the 2d Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
This battalion included Robert Graves (Good-bye to All That), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer) and Frank Richards the author of Old soldiers never die, an excellent view of the war by a Regular in the ranks.
Highly recommended.
I'm reading the paperback version but have ordered a hardback edition.
The War the Infantry Knew by J.C. Dunn. Captain J.c. Dunn, a medical officer in the 2d Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
This battalion included Robert Graves (Good-bye to All That), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer) and Frank Richards the author of Old soldiers never die, an excellent view of the war by a Regular in the ranks.
Highly recommended.
I'm reading the paperback version but have ordered a hardback edition.
6Ammianus
Read WWI memoir by Frank Richards Old soldiers never die. Excellent view of a long serving private in the trenches, 1914-1918.
7Shrike58
Basically finished Vietnam's High Ground (A+) this evening; a very enlightening examination of Saigon's efforts to control the Central Highlands from 1954 through 1965.
8John5918
Just finished Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas. A first hand down to earth account of the life of a British tank officer in north Africa during World War II.
9jztemple
Finished a superb Omdurman by Philip Ziegler, a brilliant narrative of the battle, with the usual introductory chapters of the background and the campaign leading up to the battle.
10jztemple
Finished an excellent Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison by Joseph Wheelan.
11AndreasJ
Finished Weapons in Ancient China the other day. Not perhaps in retrospect a book for reading straight through - more of a book to look stuff up in.
12Karlstar
Finished The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy). Great book, in my opinion and I am looking forward to the next.
13jztemple
>12 Karlstar: Does the book cover new ground or provide an original approach to the period? I've read a number of books about this time and wondered if Atkinson has something new to say.
14Karlstar
>13 jztemple: There are a few items that were new to me, the coverage of the siege of Boston is a bit more complete and there was information on the southern campaigns I wasn't familiar with. If you are very well read on the Revolutionary war though, you may not find much new. I've recently read 1776, a couple of books on Ben Franklin and another history book from the time, but I still found new information and new angles on all of the battles.