Having just finished Mark Urban's very good UK Eyes Alpha I'm now rattling through (at quite phenomenal pace) Dan Todman's The Great War: Myth and...
I came across that a while ago, it read like a bad mash-up of his When Titans Clashed, in fact if I recall correctly some parts turned out to have...
Currently Adam Tooze's Wages of Destruction which is quite simply working a miracle by making economics interesting, and S/Sgt David Bellavia's...
Hello there, Anyone know a good book specifically on the Battle of North Cape? Or failing that, a good arctic convoys book that covers that...
Hehe, if I post ten times, will you start reading it?
400 pages in now, things are hotting up.
Gin, I've never known a vodka that didn't taste such to make me think of dying braincells. Sofa or armchair?
Firstly, it's difficult to generalise because the 109 underwent a hell of a lot of modification over its lifetime and I'd imagine the designers...
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Sake, but absolutely only good quality sake at that. Cheap sake was invented by Satan. Bicycle or motorbike?
I ought to have said that those 200 pages have so far been exclusively on the peacetime economy, and have been eye-opening on all sorts of topics...
Keegan's Second World War is a good one-volume intro, and Richard Overy's Why the Allies Won is an excellent discussion of some of the major...
I'm reading it at the moment, 200 pages in, and so far it's fascinating.
Marvellous, many thanks.
Hello, wondering if anyone might know where to look for info on a US Spitfire squadron based on Corsica around Christmas 1943/early 1944? I'm...
Yeah, I said something about the unfair criticism of the Allies, implicit in the title, in my conclusion.
Are they really very pro-Haig, or do they just seem that way because of how savaged his reputation has been in the past?
I like.
I've noticed that book on the shelves of bookshops round here, and I'm sorely tempted to fork out the £25 jacket price and get my hands on it,...
Liberation of Belsen commemorated Holocaust survivors and their liberators are marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen...
