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March 1st, 2004, 04:30 PM
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I've just started William Fowlers - The Commandos at Dieppe. The story of 4 Commandos attack on the Hess Battery, Operation Cauldron. The only part of Operation Jubillee that is said to have been a success.
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March 26th, 2004, 09:52 AM
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Well I just started Ryan's A Bridge Too Far to do my checking up on it and amazing history book with great writer. 
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March 26th, 2004, 04:04 PM
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I've begun reading the Bible.
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March 26th, 2004, 04:19 PM
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Greg, good job ! U can't beat that.........
Erich ♠ starting to look back on some of his old books from the 1950's......
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March 26th, 2004, 05:07 PM
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Still waiting for my "Ploesti" book to arrive!  Re-reading "In Deadly Combat" in the mean time.
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"In Deadly Combat"....good book
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March 30th, 2004, 12:08 PM
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The Bible is definetly a given at all times on the list  but besides that Ryan's Bridge Too Far is really good so far.
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March 30th, 2004, 06:31 PM
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Na... the Bible is not that worth it, speaking about technical Literature aspects...  Unless of course, you know archaic Greek. [img]smile.gif[/img]
If you want to read a very good Greek literary work, read the Illyad, not the Bible.
P. S. I'm not a pagan.
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April 1st, 2004, 02:30 PM
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Currently reading Bondmen made Free by Hilton. This is the record of mediaeval peasant's revolts and the ideologies behind them.
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April 1st, 2004, 05:20 PM
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Currently reading "The memoirs of Hadrian" by Marguérite Yourcenar —an incredibly beautiful historic novel—, "Humanism and Jewish Culture" by José Gordon (editor), "The Aphocryphal Gospels" and Dan Brown's undeserved-best seller "The Da Vinci Code" —just not to miss a very popular conversation and bashing this author and his "carefully researched investigation"
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"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun
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April 1st, 2004, 05:30 PM
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OK,OK - I got culture, too ! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Currently reading Sean Egan's 'Not Necessarily Stoned, But Beautiful - Jimi Hendrix And The Making Of 'Are You Experienced' '
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April 1st, 2004, 06:22 PM
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"A Roof Cutter's Secret's". Amazon.com just e-mailed; my "Ploesti"book won't be shipped til 1 May!Grrrrr! 
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April 2nd, 2004, 06:29 AM
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Soory to hear about that Framert. Hope to see it in your hands before that, great book!
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Just ordered the Ploesti book and 2 books about the "seige of Sevastopol" from Barnes@ Noble. Now it's wait,wait...... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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April 8th, 2004, 08:35 AM
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Martin - i don't believe it! you've got culture that i got to see
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April 8th, 2004, 12:32 PM
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And a bit more culture - my 'reading' copy of T E Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - The 1922 Oxford Text ' arrived this morning....
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April 14th, 2004, 11:33 AM
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Martin more culture! your definetly not feeling well go straight to A&E and get checked out |
April 14th, 2004, 06:03 PM
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Speaking of culture[or lack there of],I received a book I ordered about Sevastopol yesterday and it was a book of poems. [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img] So much for buying a book with no description about it. "Roses are red.....
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April 14th, 2004, 06:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by framert:
Speaking of culture[or lack there of],I received a book I ordered about Sevastopol yesterday and it was a book of poems. [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img] So much for buying a book with no description about it. "Roses are red.....
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Sorry for the giggles, framert, but that IS funny!! Hope that, at least, they are poems by soldiers on the Sevastopol front... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Poetry can be a great thing, though, framert. Maybe you should give 'em a try...
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April 15th, 2004, 05:31 AM
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I know the feeling - I ordered a Big Mac the other day.....I thought it seemed rather cheap for a raincoat.... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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April 15th, 2004, 09:42 AM
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Wedemeyer Reports!
by Albert C Wedemeyer.
(An objective, dispassionate examination of World War II, post war politics and Grand Strategy)
Well thats what the cover says, he hates Marshall, Eisenhower & Roosevelt, Every one British and I havent got to his thoughts on Chiang Kai Shek. He argues the British wouldnt commit to a 1942 invasion plan, despite the US not having a plan and that 99% of the trooops would be British.
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STALINGRAD by Heinz Schroter (War Correspondents' Staff 6th Army)
Havent read this for app 20 years, not a bad book, cant afford any of the new books.
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April 16th, 2004, 08:36 AM
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Just finished Philip Henshall´s "Hitler´s V-weapons´ sites" and if you are interested in knowing spesifically where the sites are this is the book to get!!
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/bibli...2-0750926074-0
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My Ploesti and Last days of Sevastopol books arrived today! Hurray for me! [img]smile.gif[/img]
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