Well, it is very good to find out that I wasn't the only toy destroyer there was...
However, I never subjected my little 1/72 scale soldiers to any of those circumstances. They only used to get lost in the garden when I used to recreate the Pacific theatre scenario...
But I did build big model of the famous clipper RMS
Thermophylae. I then destroyed it and build it again and destroyed it again. Finally, the bow of the clipper saw its last destiny as a wretch in the living room's fish house (?)... (What's the word for that glass box you put your fishes in?)
Erich, I have also one picture of Hermann Göring's Fokker VII. Very beautiful indeed. I might post it somewhere when I go back to Mexico.
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Rommel-fans beware though - Heckmann paints a pretty objective portrait and brings forward some less than charming personal qualities about the sly ole' Fox...
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Then he's telling the truth. Rommel was everything but an agreeable commander. His supeior and subordinated officers pretty much hated him. He was a tyran and treated nearly everybody very bad. He barely smiled or publicly accepted someone's merits.
I still go with the Fokker VII as WWI best fighter. Do you know that the very specific type of aeroplane Kokker VII was prohibited by the Versailles Treaty? That speaks very good about the plane.
I own this book. Nice information and nice pictures. However, the printing quality is AWFUL. There's one photo of Rommel in which he looks more like the burnt English patient or a mummy than Rommel! [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
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The Gallic War - by Julius Caesar
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Well, this IS a master war book. Very good choice, Patrick!
Carl, I finally could get Anthony Beevor's
"Fall of Berlin 1945"! [img]smile.gif[/img] I'll start it as soon as I get the time. And of course, I am still fighting to get his
"Stalingrad".
I also got Stephen E. Ambrose's
"Band of Brothers". Finally!
And here are other tittles I have just bought yesterday. (I am mentioning only the military ones, which are only 10% of what I bought):
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"Goodbye Darkness" by William Manchester. (A present for my dear friend Carl, if he doesn't have it yet)
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"Nuremberg Diary" by G. M. Gilbert
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"How few remain" by Harry Turtledove. A novel of the second war between the states. I'll get started in USA civil war.
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"The Hundred Years War" by Desmond Seward
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"It doesn't take a hero" by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, his autobiography.
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"Churchill" by Roy Jenkins. Finally I found something really worth on him, as Kershaw's work on Hitler.
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"The Kennedy Men 1901-1963" by Laurence Leamer. I am sure it has a lot of war things.
And I'm not over of my shopping yet!