susanhemmings Posted 5 March , 2008 Share Posted 5 March , 2008 Currently reading: Conscripts.... also keep going back to Forgotten Lunatics (hard going to say the least and very sad) Next book - Goodbye to all that..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyHollinger Posted 6 March , 2008 Share Posted 6 March , 2008 Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staffsreg Posted 6 March , 2008 Share Posted 6 March , 2008 ' A Lack of Offensive Spirit - The 46th at Gommecourt' By Bill mac Cormick ( Bmac!) only read to page 28 so far(got yesterday) but am hooked already1 A 'huge' book in many ways. Cheers, Ivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnorthall Posted 6 March , 2008 Share Posted 6 March , 2008 Have just finished "Europe's Last Summer: Why the World Went to War in 1914" by David Fromkin. I am about a third of the way through "Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War" by Gordon Corrigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benghazi Posted 6 March , 2008 Share Posted 6 March , 2008 So come on guys what are you reading at the moment? On my bedside table at the moments is Gary Sheffield's excellent Forgotten Victory. Avery good read. Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benghazi Posted 6 March , 2008 Share Posted 6 March , 2008 Reading once again Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War. If you have not, you have missed a great read. Roger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Murphy Posted 8 March , 2008 Share Posted 8 March , 2008 Delving into the single volume Penguin edition of Churchill's The World Crises 1911-1918. Pretty good read and a lot fairer than I expected. Of course being one of the participants has its advantages and disadvantages when writing a history but I found his accounts of his own involvement in the War fascinating. I would love to have the complete set of this work and last year I saw it on sale in Chapters Bookshop in Dublin - the price was €250 !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armourersergeant Posted 8 March , 2008 Share Posted 8 March , 2008 Just starting '39 months with the Tigers 1915-18' by D V Kelly. Thin volume of only a hundred and fifty pages or so but seems to be shaping up well. regards Arm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 8 March , 2008 Share Posted 8 March , 2008 Delving into the single volume Penguin edition of Churchill's The World Crises 1911-1918. Pretty good read and a lot fairer than I expected. Of course being one of the participants has its advantages and disadvantages when writing a history but I found his accounts of his own involvement in the War fascinating. I would love to have the complete set of this work and last year I saw it on sale in Chapters Bookshop in Dublin - the price was €250 !!! "Winston has written an enormous book about himself and called it 'The World Crisis'", said Arthur Balfour. One of my favourite quotes. cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 8 March , 2008 Share Posted 8 March , 2008 There is a book about WSC and Lloyd George, you might like. It is on Amazon at the moment. Riddell mentions him a lot in his diaries. He was not one of his admirers. Churchill and Lloyd George were close for many years, from before the war until Ll-G's death. They are usually described as friends but the impression I got when reading about them is that they preferred to know what each other was up to. The old adage springs to mind, " Keep your friends close and your enemies closer". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Murphy Posted 9 March , 2008 Share Posted 9 March , 2008 "Winston has written an enormous book about himself and called it 'The World Crisis'", said Arthur Balfour. One of my favourite quotes. cheers Martin B Nice One! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orcadian Posted 11 March , 2008 Share Posted 11 March , 2008 just starting scapa and a camera by c w burrows a2007 reprint of a1931 book lots of photos of grand fleet and the scuttled german fleet [] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaymen Posted 11 March , 2008 Share Posted 11 March , 2008 Just finished Somme Mud If anyone hasn't got it ...get it now Marvellous book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Flashman V.C. Posted 11 March , 2008 Share Posted 11 March , 2008 A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre True story about a group of soldiers that were caught behind enemy lines when the Germans invaded France in 1914. They were taken in by the French at Villeret in Picardy and protected. A very sad and moving story as one of the women of the village fell in love with one of the soldiers Robery Digby and had a baby girl. Ben Macintyre who is a Times newspaper correspondent met the old lady (the girl) in about 2001 at a memorial service in the village and researched the story. I very good read. Type in the title in amazon for more info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 11 March , 2008 Share Posted 11 March , 2008 Just started "A Lack of Offensive Spirit" by our pal Bmac. So far so good. Only a few pages in and never knew the link to Handsworth Bham, an area I am so familiar with. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alliekiwi Posted 11 March , 2008 Share Posted 11 March , 2008 I'm reading a fascinating book about the Spanish Flu in New Zealand. It's called Black November: The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand by Geoffrey W. Rice. Definitely worth a read if you're interested in the flu epidemic, even if you're not a New Zealander. I ordered my copy directly from the publisher. Allie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbadge Posted 12 March , 2008 Share Posted 12 March , 2008 In an attempt to advance beyond absolute ignoramus in this vast subject I am raiding the library weekly. Among others this week I have 'The Routledge Atlas of the First World War' and Rotographic's 'British and Irish Campaign Medals'. Both suit me as they have lots of diagrams and pictures and have already cleared up a few mysteries. (They have also posed yet more questions- sigh!) billbadge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 12 March , 2008 Share Posted 12 March , 2008 Just finished "Stand To" by a Captain in the Leinsters - excellent and very well written account of his time with 2nd Battalion. Currently reading "A Lack of Offensive Spirit" by bmac and it is absorbing, detailed and informative. At home I have the WFA "Stand To" reprint volume 3 which I am enjoying dipping in to. And then there is "Le Cateau" in the Battleground Europe series.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equusv Posted 12 March , 2008 Share Posted 12 March , 2008 I am presently reading a new book by Nathan Greenfield, Baptism of Fire: The Second Battle of Ypres and the Forging of Canada ©2007 Pretty good so far and I was attracted by the title because although they say Canada came of age on Vimy Ridge, I have long thought that the process was started during 2nd Ypres. Susan/Bonfire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted 24 March , 2008 Share Posted 24 March , 2008 Just finished reading Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub. To say it was incredibly moving would be an understatement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armourersergeant Posted 24 March , 2008 Share Posted 24 March , 2008 I am presently reading a new book by Nathan Greenfield, Baptism of Fire: The Second Battle of Ypres and the Forging of Canada The author is a member of this forum as well. A thread around 2nd ypres and this book was under way last year. A search would bring it up I am sure. regards Arm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dah Posted 24 March , 2008 Share Posted 24 March , 2008 The Old Front Line by John Masefield.. Recently finished.this excellent book.....as a direct consequence of recommendations from this site (probably this very thread). For those who are familiar with the Somme battlefield as it is today, but who are not familiar with this book........I would strongly recommend you to it. The book was written & first published in 1917. The writer is walking the same ground we walk today, describing what he sees and what he knows has taken place only the previous summer. The battle has recently moved north to the Hindenberg line and the Somme is now a quiet rear area (for the time being). So many of us must have tried to imagine the scene and devastation as we stand in today's sunken lane, Beaumont Hamel, Ancre valley, Mill Road, Schwaben redoubt - Leipzig salient etc etc. This guy is really there - describing the slowly collapsing trenches, the myriad of lone graves, the abandoned equipment etc. .....and, if you know the ground he is talking about, it's like you are there too - looking over his shoulder. I was captivated. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wullmackie Posted 26 March , 2008 Share Posted 26 March , 2008 Just starting to read Horseman Pass By . (The Austrailian Light Horse in World War 1, Gallipoli to Damascus) by Lindsey Baly Wull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roel22 Posted 26 March , 2008 Share Posted 26 March , 2008 The Old Front Line by John Masefield. Completely by chance I noticed the complete text of this book can be read online. Looks like a must have. David, there are several versions of this book; does your edition have the 1971-photo's as well? regards Roel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dixon Posted 26 March , 2008 Share Posted 26 March , 2008 I am in the middle of "The Unending Vigil: A history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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