really? wow...I'm sure you've had a lot of dr. pepper. it stinks that your family doesnt have it anymore. yes, dr. pepper by far is my fav.

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

Wellllll, back before ww2 and when my dad was a just beginning to be a teen, he did drink alot of free Dr. Pepper.

They even used to have Dr. Pepper pinball machines. These pinball machines paid you off in nickles. I do remember him telling me that on Friday evenings, he wouls stay to play the pinball machine--thus mastering it. Because of his staying and playing and winning on the machine--he won enough money to always be able to go see movies on Saturdays as well as take his sweetheart and friends out.

I still have some VERY old Dr. Pepper items which are very valuable these days.

As much as I hate politics--these are all politically related.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

wow...awesome. they need to have dr. pepper pinball machines now. maybe that's the answer to all our economic troubles right now! giving away free nickels! maybe not...well I'm happy to announce this is post 100. I am now not new at this.

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

At this moment I'm reading "1421 - The year in which China discovered the New World" by "Gavin Menzies".

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Congrats Ike, now you can get your choice of Avatar. Lookin' forward to seeing what you choose. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

vuala...yeah I got a response from Peppy and found the dern thing in my profile. so here it is! sorry I've been kinda silent for a while. you'll find that I'm pretty active in scouts and gone for weekends at a time.

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

Nice avatar. Also, great going on it Peppy. [img]graemlins/vc.gif[/img]

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

grasias. now...where were we...

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

We are


I am now starting to read: The German Army in World War II by: Nigel Thomas. Published by: Osprey.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

I was about to ask what it addresses but then I read your post again. i am too tired. anyway, any thoughts on it yet since you just started it?

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

I'd give it a double thumbs up. It gives an excellent overview on the German Army pre and wartime.

This book is a compilation of the excellent 5 volume series on German Army uniforms, insignia etc.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

talk about detail. does it give backround on how hitler came into power and the rise of the nazi party?

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

Not that kind of detail. These books give you tons of detail on German uniforms and insignias, when they were instituted and how work. You DO get some history overall but not like you will have if you bought a book say talking about the Battle of the Bulge or the Battle for Stalingrad.

This book is more for the militaria collector in mind--meaning--you get info even on the kings of uniform buttons on a soldiers shoulders.

This info is presented in such a way that one cannot easily get bored. There are plenty of period photos and also color artwork plates.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

hm...sounds interesting. I am almost done with D-day and afterwards I'm not sure what I'm going to do...my goal is to know everything there is to know about d-day, so i'll probably buy another d-day book.

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

C. Evans, what's the extent of your WWII library? [img]tongue.gif[/img] I have a few empty shelves, so I'm just setting a goal.

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

Well, I've just bought Corelli Barnett's "Hitler's generals", which I think, will be a good addition to his other - and very good - book "The desert generals".

Am of course I am at about to kill myself waiting for "Lost Victories" by field marshal Von Manstein to arrive! [img]redface.gif[/img]

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

And what are the other 34 books you bought, Fried???

Did you already buy the Manstein book? I have a German copy lying around idle...

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"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson

Hi Ike, I never really counted how many books I have. I can give a rough estimate of possibly 700? The vast majority of them are on history/military history. About 50 are on collecting militaria, about 30 are on military or historical personalities with two books devoted to John Wayne.

Now, if you want to include fiction paperbacks, throw in about another 500 books.

I also have a substantial Documentary collection--appx 500+++ taped. About 98% are on war.

I just did a brief check on my DVD collection. 99 DVDs with 90 being on war and westerns. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 03. November 2003, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: C.Evans ]

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

wow...that's quite a library. I think I'll shoot for a little lower...howabout...4 books related to WWII (I already have 3) . At least it's reachable within the near future.

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

The other ones I bought? [img]redface.gif[/img]

"The three musketeers" (Another version in Spanish", "20 years later", "The viscount of Bragelone" by Aléxandre Dumas, "Theogony" by Hesiode, "USA, antiterrorism or imperialism" by several important hispanoamerican politicians, "Tale of Tales" by Néstor Luján, "The desert sons" by Mark Kendrik, "Metes and Bounds" by Jay Quinn, "War Diaries" by Franz Halder, "At swim, tow boys" by Jamie O'Neill, "The boys on the rock" by John Fox, "Dream Boy" by Jim Gremsley, "Labirynth of Soliness" by Octavio Paz", "Dictionary of Roman and Greek mithology" by Pierre Grimal, "The Hitler Myth" by Sir Ian Kershaw, "Diaries" by Joseph Goebbels, "Fidel, History will absolve me" by Natividad González, "The strange defeat" by Marc Bloch, "London, a biography" by Peter Ackroyd, "Delecroix", "José de Rivera", "Velázquez" (those last three, art books", "The Third Reich day by day" by ?, "The life and time of Philipp II" by Tomàs Cabot, "European monarchies of the XVI century" by Henri Lapeyre, "The cult of Elizabeth" by R. Strong and "The great challenge, the poles" by Bertram Inbert.

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

I have read it, well, not everything. I was very dissapointed about the amount of self-serving bias and monday morning quarterbacking, the complete lack of the Soviet POV (well, i expected this) and the lack of self-criticism.

A general's self-serving memoir par excellance, building the post-war "Hitler [insert name who didn't survive the war] screwed it all, if he only would have done as I/we suggested"-myth.

Ah, And I'm reading Karl Frieser: The Blitzkrieg-Myth.

Cheers,

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(President Merkin Muffley in "Dr. Strangelove")

Sounds like a near perfect balance to me!

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