armourersergeant Posted 8 May , 2003 Share Posted 8 May , 2003 Ok everybody what book are we reading at this moment? I am currently reading 'From private to feild marshall' the autobiography of Sir william Robertson and so far i am impressed how down to earth and non fussy it is if you know what i mean. Arm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyem1 Posted 8 May , 2003 Share Posted 8 May , 2003 St Julien, Ypres, By Graham Keech. Reccomended by Tom Morgan. ( Toms website ) is the book good, don`t know, I have lost my reading glasses. LOL. but will let you know when i find them and read the book. garyem1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 8 May , 2003 Share Posted 8 May , 2003 "War Underground - The Tunnellers of The Great War" by Alexander Barrie. Interesting to read that 171 Company, not used to army rules, were going to strike for more pay until they were told that if their ringleader was found, he would be shot. Myrtle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bert Hoornaert Posted 8 May , 2003 Share Posted 8 May , 2003 I am reading "Der Tod am Kemmel" by Adolf Sempf. (A Dutch translation, because my knowledge of German is not that good) It's a very small book that I found among a pile of books that belonged to my grandfather. Bert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph J. Whitehead Posted 8 May , 2003 Share Posted 8 May , 2003 With the German armies in the West by Sven Hedin. Ralph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broznitsky Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 "Pioneer Battalions in the Great War" by Mitchinson. Although this covers British pioneers only, I'm assuming the tasks and duties described would have been much the same for my grandad in 3rd Cdn Pioneers. (Nice photo of Aussie pioneers for the chaps down under). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordac Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 I’m at the half way mark of ‘The 50th Battalion In No Man’s Land’ by Victor W. Wheeler (ISBN: 1-896979-15-7). Wheeler was a signaler in the 50th (Alberta) and he used his war diary and letters to write the book. At this point I’ll give it an 8 out of 10. Next book will be Byng Of Vimy. Garth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Just about to start a book about the Turkish side of Gallipoli, and waiting in the wings is an interesting book about the Germans who served in the Australian forces in the war. Cheers Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garde Grenadier Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 On my desk are currently: "Lice" by Blaise Cendrars (The Horrors of the First World War by a man who experienced them, the French side of it); "Standschütze Bruggler" by Anton Graf Bossi Fedrigotti (about the War in the Alps/Tyrolia, rather nationalistic, as published in 1934); "Gedichte gegen den Krieg" (poems against the war, an anthology); "For Remembrance" by A. St. John Adcock (Soldier Poets who have fallen in the War). Regards Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Just about to start "The First Blitz" by Andrew Hyde about German air raids on Britain 1917-18 and am almost finished on "The Baby Killers" by Thomas Fegan on a similar subject. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Samuels, Martin. Command or Control? Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Halfway through Blindfold and Alone by Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson. To follow, The War the Infantry Knew by Capt JC Dunn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Carter Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 I have just read "Horses can't fly" the memoirs of Fred Libby a former Colorado cowboy. After spending his early life breaking horses and rounding up cattle Fred decides to leave home in search of adventure. He travelled to Canada just as WW1 was begining. On a whim he decided to join a Canadian motor-transport company and was sent to France. After a year he applied to become an Observer in the RFC and shot down a German plane on his first flight!!! He was a comrade of Albert Ball VC and after a period of time became a pilot himself. He was credited with 14 victories, and was awarded the MC. I bought it via the internet from Amazon.co.uk. A very interesting read and I recommend it. Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Birch Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Nearing the end of "Haig's Command" by Denis Winter. Interesting, but he (the author) comes across as being a man with a vindictive mission. In places his arguments seem thin and whilst he makes some interesting and controversial points, a lot of what he writes comes across as being circumstantial evidence open to interpretation as one wishes rather than hard facts. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 'The Shield of Achilles' by Philip Bobbitt - sees 'epochal wars' as the means by which states transform themselves into new consititutional forms - feels we are in this process now after the 'Long War' of 1914-1990!! Hard....but very thought provoking. Recommended for the 'big picture'. Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenwoodman Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 "War and Remembrance" by Winter and Sivan - required reading for my course, but pretty hard going. To be followed by "The Great War and Modern Memory" by Paul Fussell. Books through the letterbox - yesterday "The Unreturning Army" Huntly Gordon RFA 2nd Lt involved at Hill 60 1917. And today "The memoirs of Lord Chandos" Brigade Major of the 4th Guards Brigade at the Battle of the Lys. The great thing about taking a course is the requirement for buying books! Bert Can you tell me what "Der Tod am Kemmel" is about please? Does it cover April 1918? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutley Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 In the middle of The War The Infantry Knew by Capt JC Dunn. A good read so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Lines Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Recently finished To win a war by John Terraine. Next on the list is a re-read of Andy Simpson's Evolution of Victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 9 May , 2003 Admin Share Posted 9 May , 2003 I'm reading Siegfried Sassoon, the Journey from the Trenches, by Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Just getting to the bit where Sassoon is starting to write the Sherston books. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Mooney Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 I am reading Malcolm Brown's The Somme for the IWM...just finished Martin and Mary Middlebrook's Battlefield Guide to the Somme. Take a guess what area I am diving into at the moment? Hope to see the Pals on the Somme for 1st July...anyone attending? Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Khaki and Gown - the autobiography of Field Marshall Lord Birdwood. Wonderful pictures of life in India between 1886 and the Great War. He comes over as a man, who although clearly of his class and his time, genuinely loved India and the men of all ranks who served in the Indian Army. Looking forward to the section on Gallipoli and his thought on the campaign! I found 'The First Blitz' an excellent account of the big Gotha raid of June 13th 1917 but wasn't so struck on the general background stuff. 'The Baby Killers' has a good gazeteer, giving details of memorials and other bits and pieces. That was better than the chronological accounts section of the book in my view. Theo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Shot in the Tower by Leonard Sellers The Somme by Gary Sheffield Loos-Hohenzollern(French Flanders)by Andrew Rawson Regards Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 "Death For Desertion" by Leonard Sellers. Publication date 22nd May, it's a new book on the Court Martial and Exexcution of Sub. Lt. Dyett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Black Lamb Gray Falcon by Dame Rebecca West, a re-read, recently visited her grave at Brookwook with Paul Rason. Superb history and travel book about the Balkans. Every one who has written of the subject since pays tribute to this wonderful work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintone Posted 9 May , 2003 Share Posted 9 May , 2003 Bravest of Hearts - Hal Giblin with David Evans and Dennis Reeves. The biography of a Battalion (10th Liverpool (Scottish) ) during The Great War. Excellent tome crammed packed with info. Roll of Honour both alphabetically and chronological. Roll of men commissioned from ranks. Over 200 pages of photos with accompanying facts, such as places of birth, residences, other family members serving, occupations, and what they acheived in later life. More a reference book but still makes a great read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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