Marilyne Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 21 hours ago, David Filsell said: Birdsong. Once described to me as Birdshite. It's not THAT bad... The movie ... that's something else... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 8 minutes ago, Marilyne said: Got them all too, except the very latest ... Love them!!! M. I think that I'm up to date, but if I'm not, I will be soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 (edited) Covenent with Death is one of the exceptions. I am just re- reading it. It is outstanding. Written by a journalist who researched deeply who later became a highly prolific and successful author it is the exception which proves the rule - and copies are available easily and cheaply on the internet. I can add another useless work- its about a boy who had a horse, lost a horse and got his horse back - while a war went on! Regards David Edited 23 April , 2021 by David Filsell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 Nearly all of his books irritate me profoundly, and he seems to have cornered the market in children's books about the Great War. I will put in a good word, though, for Mary Rayner's book for younger children, The echoing green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 (edited) One of my first post lockdown forays into a charity shop, produced a near mint copy of 'Passchendaele - Unseen Panoramas' by Peter Barton. A weighty volume indeed, already have his 'Battlefields of the First World War' in the same format. Mike. Edited 25 April , 2021 by MikeyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 16 May , 2021 Share Posted 16 May , 2021 Hi all, I was hesitating today in Zonnebeke whether to get a copy of Andrew Rawson's "The Passchendaele Campaign" or not. I spent a part of the time we had a Koklikoo for coffee looking for references and got mixed signals in reviews from his other books in the series going from "good & interesting" to "nothing new to learn in that". Did I make the good decision NOT to take the book (yet??) M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 11 June , 2021 Share Posted 11 June , 2021 Just been reading (online so I didn't have to pay for it) Percy F. Westerman's 'With Beatty off Jutland' (1920). Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Experience of the Battle of Jutland crow-barred in between not one, not two, but three German spy plots with a great deal of emphasis on Hun frightfulness and examples of Kultur. Not to mention a sub-lieutenant leaping overboard to save an AB and a warship stopping to pick them up... Great cover though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted 11 June , 2021 Share Posted 11 June , 2021 3 hours ago, seaJane said: Just been reading (online so I didn't have to pay for it) Percy F. Westerman's 'With Beatty off Jutland' (1920). Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Experience of the Battle of Jutland crow-barred in between not one, not two, but three German spy plots with a great deal of emphasis on Hun frightfulness and examples of Kultur. Not to mention a sub-lieutenant leaping overboard to save an AB and a warship stopping to pick them up... Great cover though. I wonder if that's one of the books Jim Prideaux read to the boys at the boarding school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 11 June , 2021 Share Posted 11 June , 2021 Westerman was a very popular author of boys' fiction, including naval https://historicnavalfiction.com/authors-a-z/percy-f-westerman http://westermanyarns.blogspot.com/search/label/Percy Westerman - Book List Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 12 June , 2021 Share Posted 12 June , 2021 1 hour ago, 593jones said: I wonder if that's one of the books Jim Prideaux read to the boys at the boarding school? I had to look that up! I'm afraid my Le Carré reading is limited to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 12 June , 2021 Admin Share Posted 12 June , 2021 I've just read As From Kemmel Hill by A Behrend. A great read, not sure why this little book has escaped my attention for so many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted 12 June , 2021 Share Posted 12 June , 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, seaJane said: I had to look that up! I'm afraid my Le Carré reading is limited to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold... To be honest, I find Le Carre very variable in his writing. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was superb, but I just couldn't get into The Honourable Schoolboy or A Perfect Spy, and A Legacy of Spies was just bizarre. It was part of the Circus series, but appeared to be in a parallel universe, with the characters bearing only a passing resemblance to their original incarnations. Very strange. Edited 12 June , 2021 by 593jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 3 July , 2021 Share Posted 3 July , 2021 Wohoo!!!! Course finished, I've got my degree, am now a full fledged "General Staff Officer" ... which does NOT mean I'm going to start acting like one of these staff-diva's I've always abhorred (and if I do so, please cross the pond and kick my ass!) But momst importantly, I've got time to read again and dive back into GW research... and I'm starting off with a summer-plunder of Defence's library: I just started with John Terraine's "Mons" and have Richard Holmes "The Little Field Marschal" and Holger Herwig's "Marne" lines up afterwards... Have a great summer everybody !! M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 3 July , 2021 Share Posted 3 July , 2021 6 minutes ago, Marilyne said: Course finished, I've got my degree, am now a full fledged "General Staff Officer" Congratulations Marilyne; does this come with a promotion and does bear have to salute you? As for diva behaviour that could be quite fun to watch, but I'd prefer to use humour to bring you back down to earth in the unlikely event it becomes necessary. I'd be interested in your views on the Holmes book, he is always readable. Pete. P.S. My sister sends her congratulations too, she's very impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 3 July , 2021 Share Posted 3 July , 2021 Hi M As Pete says congratulations, you now match up to your avatar rank😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 3 July , 2021 Share Posted 3 July , 2021 8 minutes ago, Fattyowls said: P.S. My sister sends her congratulations too, she's very impressed. Thank you both I've got my Lt Col committee in September... we'll see if that works out !! you'll be the first on the forum to know. M, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 4 July , 2021 Share Posted 4 July , 2021 Congratulations, Marilyne! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Regiano Posted 4 July , 2021 Share Posted 4 July , 2021 Well done Marilyne. Reg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 4 July , 2021 Share Posted 4 July , 2021 On 03/07/2021 at 10:51, Knotty said: , you now match up to your avatar rank😁 quite far from that... I'l but a lowly major in real life... Now Major G.S. ... but still... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 4 July , 2021 Share Posted 4 July , 2021 Congratulations Marilyne. I will pm you when I get home later in the week regarding your bibliography list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 4 July , 2021 Admin Share Posted 4 July , 2021 Congratulations Marilyne, do we call you Ma'am now? Currently reading The Invisible Cross, the letters of Colonel Graham Chaplin, Cameronians. Picked up the book ( and a few others...😗) in Hay on Wye last week. A very good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIFFO Posted 5 July , 2021 Share Posted 5 July , 2021 Congratulations Marilyne I fully agree with all the above BUT do we get free Drink,scratchings,fig rolls or at a push pickled eggs just askin Biffo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 23 July , 2021 Share Posted 23 July , 2021 My first Great War read for some time but it’s a good one, Wendy Moore’s ‘Endell Street’, though in its US incarnation ‘No Man’s Land.’ Makes me once again think that so many things would be much better run by women. Cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 24 July , 2021 Share Posted 24 July , 2021 After seeing many recommendations on the forum I finally got around to reading 'With a Machine Gun to Cambrai', I won't repeat what has already been said on here suffice to say it did not disappoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 27 July , 2021 Share Posted 27 July , 2021 On 05/07/2021 at 12:08, BIFFO said: Congratulations Marilyne I fully agree with all the above BUT do we get free Drink,scratchings,fig rolls or at a push pickled eggs just askin Biffo Waffles are on me as soon as we manage to organise a reunion... M. On 23/07/2021 at 15:54, Martin Bennitt said: My first Great War read for some time but it’s a good one, Wendy Moore’s ‘Endell Street’, though in its US incarnation ‘No Man’s Land.’ Makes me once again think that so many things would be much better run by women. Cheers Martin B Thanks for the compliment!!! In name of all women! I've got that one on my list... it's for soon. Right now I'm settling into the new job, read on the train... So advancing slowly... but surely... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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