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12-03-2006, 01:19 PM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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 |  What are you reading at the moment? I know this thread is similar to others but what are you all reading at the moment (or just finished?). And what do you think?  I've just finished 'Armageddon' by Max Hastings. I thought it was very good, learnt a lot about the war in the East. I think that it was harsh on the Allies conduct of the war in the West. Also learnt a lot about Holland in the last months of the war. Reading at the moment (lent to me by a mate at work) 'Harlequin' by Bernard Cornwall. I'm only about 35 pages in, but so far, so good.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. We had a squadron commander who believed in the head-on attack. 'The next raid we go up to intercept, we will do a head-on attack,' he said. So he attacked an Me 110 head-on and I'm afraid Jerry got the better of him and all we found of him was his shirt! Flying Officer Harold Bird-Wilson, 17 Squadron.  |
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13-03-2006, 11:17 AM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK (atm Pretoria, South Africa)
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| Reading "Flyboys" by James Bradley. Finished a while ago "Witness to War" by Richard J. Aldrich and before that it was "Fortress Malta" and before that Armagedon...
__________________  "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum |
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13-03-2006, 11:22 AM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) | |
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13-03-2006, 11:35 AM
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| I Like Tanks.   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: The Abbey of Thelema.
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13-03-2006, 11:46 AM
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| Top Moose  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Just been reading this and loking at the pictures. Full of really amazing photos from just before the 14-18 War until the Cyprus emergency in the late 50s. Good WW2 section with some really good photos and fully informative captions. But it here.https://www.ds-secure.co.uk/thewardr...hp?prod_id=165 |
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13-03-2006, 05:19 PM
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| Angels one-five Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. We had a squadron commander who believed in the head-on attack. 'The next raid we go up to intercept, we will do a head-on attack,' he said. So he attacked an Me 110 head-on and I'm afraid Jerry got the better of him and all we found of him was his shirt! Flying Officer Harold Bird-Wilson, 17 Squadron. | |
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