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Post by JCON on Nov 20, 2017 16:11:24 GMT -6
Been reading a biography by Norbert Friedman called Sun Rays At Midnight... One man's quest for the meaning of life, before, during and after the Holocaust. It is amazing what the Jewish people and others had endured and how they came out after the war. I highly recommend this book if you want a real look into the human mind and what it can endure through hard times... Joe
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Nov 20, 2017 16:35:49 GMT -6
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Nov 20, 2017 16:38:53 GMT -6
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Post by RLFoster on Nov 20, 2017 16:45:28 GMT -6
I'm currently enthralled with "The Liberation of Europe 1944 - 1945: The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin"
Awesome photographs from the archives of British news agencies and outstanding personal stories of the photographers who took them.
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Post by JCON on Nov 20, 2017 16:47:19 GMT -6
Good ones Bruce!!! Robert that sounds really good!!!
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Post by BUCKY on Nov 20, 2017 17:08:01 GMT -6
Some very nice reading material, there, gents!
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Post by tojo72 on Nov 20, 2017 18:57:47 GMT -6
Death on the Baltic by Cathryn Prince,details the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by the Soviets resulting in the death of almost 10000 greatest maritime disaster
Next up
The Joy of Hate
Political satire by Greg Gutfeld
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Post by JCON on Nov 20, 2017 18:58:46 GMT -6
Wow Tojo, that sounds amazing!!!  |
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Post by Beekster on Nov 20, 2017 21:10:21 GMT -6
Re-reading one that I haven't re-read since I was playtesting Lion of the North for GMT Games back in the 1990s: The Thirty Years War by Cecily Veronica Wedgwood. An excellent narrative history of one of Europe's darkest periods.
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Post by JCON on Nov 20, 2017 21:16:53 GMT -6
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Post by BUCKY on Nov 20, 2017 21:38:40 GMT -6
It surely does!!
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Post by Beekster on Nov 21, 2017 12:07:32 GMT -6
The Thirty Years War is one of those wretched periods poorly covered by modern histories. Wedgwood wrote in the late thirties with a revision in the fifties, and her work is still the best current overview. The whole thing was a mess: Started over a mix of religious zeal and intolerance mixed with dynastic ambition, it morphed into a struggle for dominance in central Europe by Bourbon France (really ruled by Cardinal Richelieu) and Hapsburg Spain and Austria (two branches of the same family), with the Swedes taking a starring role in the middle and mercenary armies laying waste the countryside wherever they went throughout. The mercenaries played for territorial power themselves and blackmailed their employers, often switching sides for a better offer. The result was a devastated Germany and modern Czech Republic and Slovenia, a solidified Austro-Hungarian Empire, a rising France, and a bankrupt Spain. Corollary effects were a weakened Swedish monarchy following the death of Gustavus Adolphus in battle, and a simmering religious and political crisis in England that resulted in the English Civil War late during this period. |
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Post by JED on Nov 21, 2017 12:15:39 GMT -6
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run, if you have the album or know it it is such a good and easy read, so much so I sometimes start singing, not very well mind!!!! 😱😱
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Post by RLFoster on Dec 26, 2018 18:11:09 GMT -6
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Post by tojo72 on Dec 26, 2018 18:20:47 GMT -6
Working on a couple right now
Battleground Prussia by
Prit Buttar
The assault on Germanys eastern front 44-45
And a Korean War novel by Jeff Shaara,the guy who wrote those Civil War novels,his father wrote The Killer Angels,he completed the series
The Frozen Hours
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Post by JCON on Dec 26, 2018 23:03:07 GMT -6
No apologies needed Robert, keep this thread going brother!!! Excellent book too!!! Love to read!!!
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Post by BUCKY on Dec 26, 2018 23:32:07 GMT -6
Right....pulling up dormant threads is the best!! Keep up the good works, folks!
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Post by dauntless on Dec 27, 2018 7:10:57 GMT -6
Pacific Thunder about the carrier war in the Pacific.... excellent read by the author of Frozen Choisin...
After Anatevka about what happens after the events of Fiddler on the Roof, my favorite musical...
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Post by JCON on Dec 27, 2018 9:12:22 GMT -6
Excellent!!! Love that movie too, Tradition!!!
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Post by Dukemaddog on Dec 27, 2018 13:16:15 GMT -6
I'm not currently reading anything right now but I just finished "The Serpentwar Saga" series from Raymond Feist. One of the best; if not the best fantasy writer since J.R.R. Tolkein.
Robert, I like your choice. I think I'll have to find that and I can't wait to see the movie.
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