What book are you reading ??

[SoD Stitch]

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, by Marcus Luttrell Patrick Robinson

BTW, Matt308, keep reading; IMHO, Tolkein (LOTR in particular) is the greatest book ever written. I've read The Hobbit about 10 times, and LOTR about five times (I'm on my sixth reading now).

 

[Matt308]

The Sum of All Fears, Tom Clancy. Great author with an intimate understanding of miltary technology.

Don't trust all Clancy novels. Many of them are ghost authored by some bloke who barely passed Freshman college language arts.

 

[Aggie08]

If that's true, he's doing remarkably well. They're plenty enjoyable.

 

[Pisis]

Just finished another Hrabal - Closely Watched Trains, going onto his Advertisement for a House...

 

[rochie]

i've just finished wings on my sleeve by eric 'winkle' brown and the big show by pierre closterman.
amazing how many aircraft eric brown tested and flew especialy late war luftwaffe aircraft

 

[Pisis]

Considering spelling of his name - Eric Brown - he tested captured Lufwaffe planes?

 

[Clave]

Still on the Wheel of Time - Book 4 now...

 

[trackend]

Agent Zig Zag by Ben Macintyre
The Eddie Chapman WW2 double agent story

 

[Njaco]

"The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles" translatted by Anne Savage. (Waiting for the guffaws)

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Colonization: Second Contact by Harry Turtledove

 

[Negative Creep]

Anzio: The Friction of War - Lloyd Clark

 

[Wildcat]

Desert Scorpions. The history of 459 sqn RAAF in the MTO (flying Hudson's, Ventura's and finally Baltimore's) 1942-45.

 

[Heinz]

the lost continent - bill bryson

 

[v2]

I just started "The ship- busters"- the story of the RAF torpedo- bombers by Ralph Barker.

 

[ccheese]

"Bodyguard of Lies" by Anthony C. Brown. Just started Vol II. Also just
started "Fortress Without a Roof" about the bombing of Germany in WW-II.
Going to try this two-books-at-a-time thing.

Charles

 

[Cota1992]

Just reread the Maneaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett for about the 100th time. I first read it as a kid and the book scared me to death. It's a autobiography of a hunter who goes after man eating tigers in prewar India.
I still get goosebumps reading the section about stalking the wounded lepoerd in the brush and tres.
Right up there with Capstick in excitement and good reading.
Art

 

[Marcel]

Flyboys, although quite a horrible story, the info on the war in the pacific is quite interesting

 

[ccheese]

Flyboys, although quite a horrible story.....

Until I read that book, Marcel, I was not aware that the Japanese ate the

liver (and other parts) of captured americans. I have since found out
that this was "the norm" with high ranking Japanese officers.

Charles

 

[Marcel]

You're sure? The book seems to suggest that this is an isolated incident (apart from the human eating of the abandoned Japanese in New Guinea)

 

[b17sam]

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