campaign Posted 23 February , 2007 Share Posted 23 February , 2007 Hi - havent been through all of the thread again but apologise if this has been posted already: noted on Arts news today that a "rare WW1 play has a stirring revival on Boradway NY" so looked it up and found it is from a book called Journey's End by W. Lawrence - perhaps someone has read this or seen the play in UK - it is set in the trenches, is still called Journey's End. Also, found a whole list of female poets for WW1 so will be off to look them out. Lyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithfazzani Posted 23 February , 2007 Share Posted 23 February , 2007 I am reading the Burgoyne Diaries - not sure what to make of them. Were all officers like him? Brutal, arrogant etc. Perhaps they were the world was very different then I think we often forget that when we talk "history" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pettsy Posted 26 February , 2007 Share Posted 26 February , 2007 I am reading The Last Post by Max Arthur. A very interesting book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkes Lamb Posted 27 February , 2007 Share Posted 27 February , 2007 I am reading The Last Post by Max Arthur. A very interesting book. I enjoyed that too-I am a fan of his now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarvis Posted 27 February , 2007 Share Posted 27 February , 2007 Finally got a copy of Sagitarius Rising - seen mention of this book too many times and thought it about time. First 2 Chapters read in the bath tub this evening ....... impressed ...... cold water forced me back to the Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 27 February , 2007 Share Posted 27 February , 2007 I finally got my copy from the library for military history: "The French Desecration of German War Graves at the Somme"; havn't read it yet, just screened the sad sad pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dixon Posted 27 February , 2007 Share Posted 27 February , 2007 Babbington's book about the subject that shall not be mentionned......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trenchrat Posted 27 February , 2007 Share Posted 27 February , 2007 Hi, Who wrote the book,"The French Desecration of German War Graves on the Somme"? It sounds very sad,but interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave T Posted 27 February , 2007 Share Posted 27 February , 2007 Since beginning this thread I have finished Voices and Images and "The boy in the striped pyjamas" a fictional non WW1 book about a young german boy who has no idea of what the holocaust is and the friendship he forms with a jewish boy at the concentration camp his father runs. Quite a moving story. Now about to start my birthday present of "the Field of Bones", Phillip Orr, the story of the Irish soldiers at Gallipoli. Has anyone read it? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBI Posted 28 February , 2007 Share Posted 28 February , 2007 Deviating Off Topic slightly,just finished watching DVD of Journeys End...excellent Stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pettsy Posted 28 February , 2007 Share Posted 28 February , 2007 I have just reading LAST POST by MAX ARTHUR. I really enjoyed the book. Now I am going to read TOMMY GOE'S TO WAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinWills Posted 28 February , 2007 Share Posted 28 February , 2007 Is it time for some kindly moderator to merge "What are we reading at the moment" with What are we currently reading. I get confused! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Wills Posted 28 February , 2007 Share Posted 28 February , 2007 Kindly moderation has been enacted! I finished my winter accompaniment of Dickens, but having made it to page 830 of 'Bleak House' I found the conclusion disappointing. Having finished that, I took up 'The da Vinci Code' courtesy of Arm, who has promised to lend me the DVD. Wonderful stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 1 March , 2007 Share Posted 1 March , 2007 Just restarting When endevours fade.1983 version & I have to check mappy all the time for the new routes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockney tone Posted 1 March , 2007 Share Posted 1 March , 2007 'And the walls came tumbling down' by Jack Fishman. An account of the WW2 air raid on the Prison in Amiens, a bit of background research for me prior to a visit to the Town in Spring. regards, Scottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dixon Posted 1 March , 2007 Share Posted 1 March , 2007 Have just started reading The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1940-45. A German Jew living in Nazi Germany, very interesting so far (page 39)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 1 March , 2007 Share Posted 1 March , 2007 Is it time for some kindly moderator to merge "What are we reading at the moment" with What are we currently reading. I get confused! Though in my case it perhaps should be re-reading Lyn Macdonald - They Called it Passchendaele. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 2 March , 2007 Share Posted 2 March , 2007 Having just finished Max Egremont's life of Siegfried Sassoon, which I hope to post a review of shortly, I have switched wars. "Suite Française" by Irène Némirovsky. After the first few chapters it is looking like a very good read. cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 8 March , 2007 Share Posted 8 March , 2007 Finished Max Arthur's Last Post a couple of weeks ago. Now half way through Human Traces.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arras100 Posted 8 March , 2007 Share Posted 8 March , 2007 I finally got my copy from the library for military history: "The French Desecration of German War Graves at the Somme"; havn't read it yet, just screened the sad sad pictures I've not heard of this book, but have the author. Is it difficult to get your hands on? (And yes, this is a sad thing that goes on). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie Posted 10 May , 2007 Share Posted 10 May , 2007 David Biltons' Trench is a good book. I'm reading Dan Todman's 'The Great War : Myth and Memory' First Class ! In the Times Higher this week is a story and photo of Dan Todman who has won The Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year for 2006 for this book. Dan is a lecturer in Modern History at Queen Mary , University of London. What are Pals' views on this book? it's about £10 new on AMazon. Robbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submarine Posted 11 May , 2007 Share Posted 11 May , 2007 I am reading for the third time " Raiders of the Deep " by Lowell Thomas. the best WW1 Submarine (U-Boat)book there is. Also not long finished Patrick Magills book ,I have to agree that was a Very Good read to. Colin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta Posted 12 May , 2007 Share Posted 12 May , 2007 The history of the London Rifle Brigade - 1914 to 1916; it is helping me puts some of the actions in "four years on the Western Front" into perspective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staffsyeoman Posted 12 May , 2007 Share Posted 12 May , 2007 Keith Jeffrey's new biography of Sir Henry Wilson. £35 straight up (too much!) but available much more cheaply from Amazon etc (I got mine half price from a 'Marketplace' seller). Simple view: Buy this book! And it's probably the last bit of decent military history we'll get out of him as he's now disappeared to become official historian of MI6... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie Posted 12 May , 2007 Share Posted 12 May , 2007 The Anzacs, Gallipoli to the Western Front by Peter Pederson. A gift from a friend. Followed by Return to Gallipoli by Bruce Scates, another gift from a different friend. Then Walking with the Anzacs by our own member Mat McLachlan and then Somme Mud. All by the 29th July. Mmm, better have some sick days from work. Cheers Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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