(Different then the other thread which is suggesting stuff towards a certain type of interest this thread is anything you are reading fiction , historical or whatever)
I am currently reading engineers of victory , extremely interesting strategic problem solving book of how the allies overcame the various tactical and strategic challenges that the axis presented and if they hadn't perhaps the axis could have won (though the book doesn't push that it is about the brilliant solutions to the problems )
Fantastic book here was the 5 chapters or strategic problems ;
1) How to get convoys safely across the Atlantic 2) How to win command of the air 3) How to stop a blitzkrieg 4) How to seize an enemy held shore 5) How to defeat "the tyranny of distance
The details and thought behind each chapter was quite compelling I might look for more books by Paul Kennedy.
Post by Fear God & Dreadnought! on Apr 6, 2018 19:01:05 GMT
Dostoevsky's magnum opus: The Karamazov Brothers.
Formerly "Admiral Jacky Fisher."
"It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious"--George Washington
It Devours! by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. It is the second novel from the Welcome to Night Vale podcast series. To best sum the book up, think Tremors but add more government and religious conspiracy.
Erwin Rommel - "Give me American supply lines, British planes, German officers and Canadian troops, and I can take over the world".
I’m currently reading a workshop manual for the FW190. Very interesting but brief history with the mechanical chapters allowing the reader to get up close and personal.
After watching the show I had to read the book of the man in the high castle. A bit different then the show and being a product of its time it's not politically correct but very intriguing ;
The initial premise is that under different circumstances the axis won the war ( entire fleet destroyed at pearl harbor, Roosevelt assassinated and a weaker president was in charge etc many details like that) and what life would be like under the third Reich and the Japanese empire.
The more underlying layer is that there is multiple realities that exist in the present where history was different ( our reality , the books reality, communist victory reality etc etc). There is a book which is like the book we the reader are reading in that it portrays what the world would be like if the allies won and the characters find it fascinating it itself is an alternate reality and different then our allied victory one. There is also crossovers of these realities or clues that exist in each world/reality like these films that show the allied victory in the one world .
I am only on page 100 but it's worth checking out there is some interesting things in it.
After watching the show I had to read the book of the man in the high castle. A bit different then the show and being a product of its time it's not politically correct but very intriguing ;
The initial premise is that under different circumstances the axis won the war ( entire fleet destroyed at pearl harbor, Roosevelt assassinated and a weaker president was in charge etc many details like that) and what life would be like under the third Reich and the Japanese empire.
The more underlying layer is that there is multiple realities that exist in the present where history was different ( our reality , the books reality, communist victory reality etc etc). There is a book which is like the book we the reader are reading in that it portrays what the world would be like if the allies won and the characters find it fascinating it itself is an alternate reality and different then our allied victory one. There is also crossovers of these realities or clues that exist in each world/reality like these films that show the allied victory in the one world .
I am only on page 100 but it's worth checking out there is some interesting things in it.
Having finished it there is some clear plot differences from the show that I took for granted were the same with the book (ex show had the films book had the book the grasshopper lies heavy). The show is more of an open exploration of this world created from the book , the book is more personal revelations for the characters who exist in this world in a contained story.
Currently reading: Champlain's Dreams by David Fischer, very good biography of an important person of Canadian (and other) history and Pirates and the Lost Templar Fleet by David Childress
Just finished, Letters from Vimy. by Orland French: A local farm boy's (KIA) letters home with some interesting narrative.
Currently reading Jutland 1916 The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield by Innes McCartney. Since Dr Ballard found the Titanic the archaeological study of naval battlefields has grown substantially. One of the issues he raises is the contradictions between official reports and what is revealed by the wrecks. Ships not where they're reported to be or unaccounted damage or lack of it.
Just started Island of Fire :The Battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad by Jason Mark. The level of detail in this book is insane (in a good way!)
I picked up 82 Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century for $30 at the bring and buy table at Hot Lead back in March. I started reading "Carpathian Disaster" death of an army by Geoffrey Jukes This series reminds a lot of Osprey books, which I've bought a good selection of, over the years.