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Outside of ww1 and ww2 what are you reading?

Postby waffen123 on 04 Feb 2004 20:40

Reading anything good on warfare outside of ww1 and ww2? I'm always looking for good books. I'm reading the lessons of modern war vol 3 The iraq iran war. It's very good!

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Re: Outside of ww1 and ww2 what are you reading?

Postby Kaan Caglar on 04 Feb 2004 20:47

waffen123 wrote:Reading anything good on warfare outside of ww1 and ww2? I'm always looking for good books. I'm reading the lessons of modern war vol 3 The iraq iran war. It's very good!

The Siege of Vienna... Lacks some research but its a nice book..
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Postby Daryl Leeworthy on 04 Feb 2004 21:07

Rebels and Redcoats, a BBC book on the American War of Independence, and also Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Capital. Both avery good. Hobsbawm in particular (if you like the marxist's interpretation of the nineteenth century!)

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Postby Von_Mannteufel on 04 Feb 2004 21:15

Philosophy (in general), On War, A History of Warfare and some laisure stuff.

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Postby Albert on 04 Feb 2004 21:17

The last one I read was the mysterious murder on the last Russian Tsar.

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Postby Aufklarung on 04 Feb 2004 21:22

Just finished Micheal Crichton's Rising Sun. (again)

Just started Allistair Maclean's Partisans. (again)

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Postby 1812 on 04 Feb 2004 21:51

At War at Sea: Naval Combat in the 20th Century
The Collected Works of Grey Owl
A Tale of Two Cities

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Postby Kiesel on 04 Feb 2004 22:32

Sallust: "Conspiracy of Catiline" and "The Jugurthine War"

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Postby alf on 04 Feb 2004 22:45

Norman Dixon

On the Psychology of Military Incompetence

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Postby James Patrick on 05 Feb 2004 02:24

Robert Coram

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

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Postby Polynikes on 05 Feb 2004 04:05

"Heretic" by Bernard Cornwell.

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Postby Wm. Harris on 05 Feb 2004 04:24

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of the British Empire in North America by Fred Anderson.

Recently finished 1918: To the Last Man by Lyn Macdonald and Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James.

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Postby Balrog on 05 Feb 2004 12:42

i finished reading a biography of Randolph Churchill by his son, Winston Churchill (a current member of parliment and the grandson of the war time prime minister)

a mystery novel, "gaudi night" by dorothy l. sayers

i am currently reading "whose body" by dorothy l. sayers

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Postby Vesper on 05 Feb 2004 15:48

Daryl Leeworthy wrote:Rebels and Redcoats, a BBC book on the American War of Independence, and also Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Capital. Both avery good. Hobsbawm in particular (if you like the marxist's interpretation of the nineteenth century!)


I've just read that, a great book.

I'm currently re-reading Nelson, The Man and The Legend, Terry Coleman.

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Postby Psycho Mike on 05 Feb 2004 17:28

Blab magazine is a fine arts and illustration magazine that probably will be thought of as a work of art inyears to come.
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Videohound's Dragon: Asian Action and Cult Films is the Bible of Kung Fu and monster movies from Asia. It is over 900 pages!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

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