So, what are you reading?

[Gator]

So, what's on the nightstand? I'm reading 'A Genius for Deception:How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars' by Nicholas Rankin. It's a great book about what went on behind the scenes of the two world wars. It is very well written and very entertaining.

 

[jknaus]

Going through the Jake Graftan series for the umpteenth time. Coonts is a great writer.
James

 

[Jeeves]

Reading "Into the Storm" which is the first book in the Destroyermen series...an alternate history book when a US destroyer and Japanese cruiser that heads into this storm and they come out into an alternate Earth and the two ships end up being "advanced" technology...

 

[wds]

John Keegan's (may he rest in peace as he died this year) A History of Warfare . It is a great read for an understanding of the logistics of how it has all gone down throughout history.

Also, E.B. Sledge's With The Old Breed. His account of his tour of duty with the Marines at Peleliu and Okinawa in WWII.
it is a great read for anyone. He is/was an an unassuming writer who just ... wrote... what ... he ... experienced. I have read it a couple of times all the way through, and I can (and still do) pick it up and just start reading where ever it opens up. (HBO used his story for part of the screen play for "Pacific"). Highly recommended.

Cheers,

Bill

May we all live long in peace.

 

[SA Dave]

Barney is the eternal US History teacher and he sent me an fantastic history book that seems to try and be without bias views. AMERICA the last best hope by William Bennett and it covers the time period from 1500's expansionism up to before WW1. Fantastic read that is easy to read but warrants whole chapter rereads for the true picture to develope. Currently I am leading up to the US civil war and the varying factors that lead up to it. Awesome to see that the slavery issue was just part of the whole and not the whole thing as other historians have let on. A must read for anybody that is interested in early US history and has no real conection to it like me.

Thanks Barney I LOVE IT!

 

[Tojo72]

The Second World War,by Antony Beevor.I really enjoy his stuff.

 

[denstore]

I'm an avid Fantasy and Sci Fi enthusiast, so on the nightstand are L. E. Modesitts Scholar and Heinleins the Door into Summer.
Also have R.A. Burts British Battleships within reach.

 

[moon puppy]

I wouldn't call myself a heavy reader, "A Passel of Hate" is on the end table right now. It's a fictionalized history of the Revolutionary War in Western South Carolina. Also here is "The Bearcats" (wonder if it was privately published)another fictionalized history, this time of the 7th ID in Korea, if you pick it up you may recognize a name in it, surely some pictures.

 

[paddy]

Everyone should reads this as its probably the funniest book i ever read :laugh:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Piece-Cake-Raf-Quartet-1/dp/0857050931/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350269171&sr=8-1

 

[Jeeves]

I saw the PBS special of this story I believe...was really good!

 

[cb1]

Im into the third book (of 82 volumes) of Tarzan of the Apes - The Beasts of Tarzan, I'm not gonna buy all 81 chaptes, but the first three were pretty good for being written in the early 1900s.

 

[SA Dave]

Just started with Terry Pratchets newest paperback "Unseen Acedemicals" I just love this fantasy world that reflects our own. This time Soccer gets the pratchet touch.