AndyHollinger Posted 22 March , 2010 Share Posted 22 March , 2010 Over There - Norton's new text of wwi (Hello Andy2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 8 April , 2010 Share Posted 8 April , 2010 Putting aside my chick-lit, Mills & Boon and Barbara Cartland Now reading The Face of Battle: A study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme: John Keegan Very interesting so far. Plenty of Strategy and Tactics Caryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 8 April , 2010 Share Posted 8 April , 2010 Peter Hart's 'Aces Falling', signed edition bought from the author at the GWF conference. A good read with only a few pedantic quibbles on my part cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulsterlad2 Posted 8 April , 2010 Share Posted 8 April , 2010 Latest books digested and yet to be There's a devil in the drum by J F Lucy. A stunning book imho. The Burgoyne Diaries by G A Burgoyne. To be fair to Burgoyne he had no idea that many years later we'd be reading his personal letters. He was there and I, well, wasn't but ....... I found that he came across as being not very likeable. As I had a relative in the 2nd Bn Irish Rifles at that time I probably took some of the things he said a bit personnally. (Stupid I know). More than once in his letters to his wife he calls the men 'cowards & curs' and calls other men 'fools' when they are killed. However, I did read it to the end and liked it overall. Walking the Salient by Paul Reed. Just got this one and started flicking through. It looks great, packed with info and what I really like is the pocket size of the BG Europe editions. I've used another 'Walking' guide in the field elsewhere and hope I can get to use this one at some stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sueburden Posted 8 April , 2010 Share Posted 8 April , 2010 Tea, Rum and Fags, Sustaining Tommy, 1914-1918 by Alan Weeks. An excellent read all about rations, official and scrounged. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 9 April , 2010 Admin Share Posted 9 April , 2010 Underground Warfare 194-1918 by Simon Jones. Very good it is too. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Trim Posted 9 April , 2010 Share Posted 9 April , 2010 'The Other Side of the Wire' by forum member Ralph Whitehead. Excellent and very detailed book about the German army on the Somme 1914 to 1916. Certainly demonstrates how experienced and prepared the German army was for our 'big push'. Ends 30th June 1916 so waiting on volume two. Len Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 9 April , 2010 Share Posted 9 April , 2010 Putting aside my chick-lit, Mills & Boon and Barbara Cartland Now reading The Face of Battle: A study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme: John Keegan Caryl On the former, I'm told the new-fangled electronic book gizmos are good: no-one knows what you're reading. Well, so I believe. I obviously have no personal experience whatever. On the latter, an excellent book: I read it first many years ago, and re-read it every so often. A different war, but Six Armies in Normandy is also a very good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 9 April , 2010 Share Posted 9 April , 2010 I am on financial hold at the moment but when my incoming catches up with the outwent, I have Ivor Lee's book on the Labour Corps in my sights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljones Posted 14 April , 2010 Share Posted 14 April , 2010 Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. One of the best anti-war novels ever written. Trumbo was later black listed by Hollywood but he kept on writing screenplays under different aliases, some you may have even heard of: Spartacus, Exodus, and Papillon among many others (including Johnny Got His Gun). A real, independent, no b.s. American writer who took no prisoners and who lived life with a higher moral code than most of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combover Posted 14 April , 2010 Share Posted 14 April , 2010 Currently reading "Somme" by Lyn MacDonald, having just finished her Paschendaele book. Ive just ordered Verdun by Alistair Horne and also Paths of Glory by Anthony Clayton. I can't wait to get stuck into them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake Posted 16 April , 2010 Share Posted 16 April , 2010 The Other ANZACS The Extraordinary story of our World War 1 Nurses By Peter Rees Good Book so far Jake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 17 April , 2010 Share Posted 17 April , 2010 I have just finished The Tank in Action by Capt D G Browne MC 1920, written in 1919 so has the views of the time. At one point he gives a couple of paragraphs to the the 'Hot Air Force' of which we gather he is not too pleased. His Tank, G46, is the tank that is lying derilict near Pilkem the photo of it appears in many books. I rearly enjoyed this and recommend it, however I had to order it through the inter lending library system, well worth the fee of £3.70. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 17 April , 2010 Share Posted 17 April , 2010 I have just started a new book called 'The Marne, 1914' by a Canadian professor named Holger H. Herwig, published only last year. It's subtitled The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World. The author says he has focussed on the German side with a lot of unused sources. It may be very interesting. cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 17 April , 2010 Share Posted 17 April , 2010 I have just started a new book called 'The Marne, 1914' by a Canadian professor named Holger H. Herwig, published only last year. It's subtitled The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World. The author says he has focussed on the German side with a lot of unused sources. It may be very interesting. cheers Martin B I enjoyed it, Martin but I wish he had got to the Marne earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin kenf48 Posted 17 April , 2010 Admin Share Posted 17 April , 2010 Picked up a copy of 'Before Endeavours Fade' by Rose Coombs MBE. The book was tucked away in a bookshop inside a sealed envelope, been looking for a copy for a while so bought it. Great delight when I got home, took it out of the envelope and found the author had signed it inside the front cover. I now understand why it is often described as 'indispensable', wish I'd bought it years ago. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Wade Posted 17 April , 2010 Share Posted 17 April , 2010 The War Illustrated. I was recently very generously given vols 1, 3, 4, 7 by a forum pal. Currently half way through volume one. Fascinating stuff. On the look out for the missing volumes now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herekawe Posted 18 April , 2010 Share Posted 18 April , 2010 I got a book down off the shelf, Naill Fergusons The Pity of War which I read several years ago and have been dipping into again. I wasn't that impressed the first time I read it as I had no way of checking the numbers he used to under pin his conclusions, and I am a bit of a numbers person. Question for the experts - have Ferguson's statistics and numbers which he used for this book ever been seriously questioned in the intervening period since the book was written? Not nit picking little errors but have any major mistakes been identified, especially when he starts talking about the comparative death rates for BEF vs German Army? I googled it but couldn't (easily) pick up any information either way. Just curious - he seems to have spent some time on this. Apart from that brought Jack Sheldons German Army at Passchendaele and liked it so brought German Army on the Somme and liked it even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 18 April , 2010 Share Posted 18 April , 2010 Picked up a copy of 'Before Endeavours Fade' by Rose Coombs MBE. The book was tucked away in a bookshop inside a sealed envelope, been looking for a copy for a while so bought it. Great delight when I got home, took it out of the envelope and found the author had signed it inside the front cover. I now understand why it is often described as 'indispensable', wish I'd bought it years ago. Ken I agree. I also bought mine second hand and co-incidentally I found inside mine a letter to the original owner of the book from Rose Coombs herself, typewritten but signed by her telling him the best times of the year weather-wise to travel to the Battlefields. He must have written to her about asking her opinions on when to travel. That made my copy even more precious The book is also heavily annotated throughout by the previous owner, although I'm not sure that's such a good thing! Caryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 18 April , 2010 Share Posted 18 April , 2010 Bloody Victory William Philpott. Recommended...an English book that actualy covers the French contribution to the Somme. Just got to Sept 1916. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinhat47 Posted 18 April , 2010 Share Posted 18 April , 2010 Cecil Lewis' "Sagittarius Rising." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinWills Posted 19 April , 2010 Share Posted 19 April , 2010 The book is also heavily annotated throughout by the previous owner, although I'm not sure that's such a good thing! Caryl It depends upon the annotations and who annotated it! In a guide additional information of most sorts can be very useful. We have a copy of "Northamptonshire in the Great War" which is somewhat care-worn and annotated in biro and felt pen. For that reason the bookdealer sold it for a very very reasonable price. The annotations were by Cyril Crutchley, veteran of the 4th Northants and MGC and author on the MGC. Even the felt pen is treasured!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete O Posted 20 April , 2010 Share Posted 20 April , 2010 Underground Warfare 194-1918 by Simon Jones. Very good it is too. Michelle Watched "Beneath Hill 60" the other day. Great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 20 April , 2010 Share Posted 20 April , 2010 Just finished "Gentlemen We Will Stand and Fight" Starting Boy Soldiers of the Great War Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFayers Posted 22 April , 2010 Share Posted 22 April , 2010 Currently reading "The Seventh Division 1914 - 1918" by C. T. Atkinson All the best Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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