What are you reading.......

[telepatu]

10 minutes ago, telepatu said:

I just finished Samurai! by Saburo Sakai and I'm currently reading this

Well, actually I'm currently reading this 😄

[Martinnfb]

Sandy claws brought some more books this morning.

 

[Clunkmeister]

Galland was a class act. I met him years ago and have a copy of that book in hardcover with his autograph.  

[belugawhaleman]

On 12/23/2021 at 2:03 PM, telepatu said:

I just finished Samurai! by Saburo Sakai and I'm currently reading this

I also read Sakai's  book and I just purchased The First and the last after seeing

your post. It looks like a good read.

[telepatu]

7 hours ago, belugawhaleman said:

I also read Sakai's  book and I just purchased The First and the last after seeing

your post. It looks like a good read.

I'm liking it so far, I've read 34% currently. I have the ebook from Kobo, those are easy to carry around when traveling. Um, when traveling was a thing :(

[belugawhaleman]

40 minutes ago, telepatu said:

I'm liking it so far, I've read 34% currently. I have the ebook from Kobo, those are easy to carry around when traveling. Um, when traveling was a thing

I have the kindle oasis and I love it. Most,if not all of my book purchases are e books.

I have an Amazon prime account and many of the books I get are included free with

The prime membership.

[Bomber_County]

1 hour ago, belugawhaleman said:

I have the kindle oasis and I love it. Most,if not all of my book purchases are e books.

I have an Amazon prime account and many of the books I get are included free with

The prime membership.

The prime membership is brilliant, I tend to only read the free ones. The civil war book I’m reading at the moment is amazing. Didn’t realise there were so many casualties in this conflict. The Civil War was never taught at school over here…….

[nmayhew]

A Christmas Carol, by Charles DIckens

 

[wemattson]

1776 by David McCullough

[Martinnfb]

[smitty44]

On 12/27/2021 at 8:09 AM, wemattson said:

1776 by David McCullough

Have that one coming up!

[wemattson]

I just finished his Path Between the Seas, another great read.

[Bomber_County]

Another Amazon Prime reading free read…….

[AlanG]

Reading this at the moment. Utterly fantastic and doesn't shy away from any detail from the Allied or German perspective. Also shows just how much loss of life there was in the conflict. Actually shocked me just how bad it was for the soldiers on both sides.

[GusMac]

7 hours ago, AlanG said:

Reading this at the moment. Utterly fantastic and doesn't shy away from any detail from the Allied or German perspective. Also shows just how much loss of life there was in the conflict. Actually shocked me just how bad it was for the soldiers on both sides.

Remember going round the cemetery at Bayeux a few years back and there are some of the Hitler Jugend buried in there. My daughter would have been 17 at the time and some of the headstones indicated the occupants were the same age as her. That really shocked her and her younger brother. They were very quiet after that for a good bit.

[Bomber_County]

One history I know very little of……..

[JohnB]

For about the 3rd or 4th time Clear the Bridge by Dick O'Kane. The war patrols of the USS Tang which he commanded. Excellent WW II submarine read.

[GusMac]

Currently flying through this one. Very informative and takes a very even, dispassionate view of the strengths and weaknesses of all armies involved whilst emphasising the bravery of them all in pretty horrific conditions.

[belugawhaleman]

It's odd, how often the books featured exactly match my Amazon browsing history. Often in sequence. Weird?

 

[GazzaS]

My current read.  Excellent!

[JohnB]

39 minutes ago, GazzaS said:

My current read.  Excellent!

One lucky dude!

 

[IainMackayDall]

I've been listening more than reading these days. my most recent narrated book in

My current distraction are the memoirs of Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney. The last military officer to command an atomic mission. 

 

Oh and the previous AudioBook was Bomber Mafia, Written and narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

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[Winnie]

10 hours ago, IainMackayDall said:

 

 

I just got this paper book for my birthday! Can't wait to dig in, Gladwell speaks well, so I can only imagine he writes well!

[IainMackayDall]

12 hours ago, Winnie said:

I just got this paper book for my birthday! Can't wait to dig in, Gladwell speaks well, so I can only imagine he writes well!

Yes, I found Gladwell's narration ( and writing ) really informative and diverse, covering details in length like the Norden bombsight and various operations in Europe and Japan.

[Clunkmeister]

The instruction booklet on a CSM Caudron G.lll