My book-buying "problem"

Hope you will post reviews in due course! When you actually read them

That second one might be a good purchase for the recent poster whose father(?) seemed to have worked on the camouflage dummies at Alamein.

 

My two recent purchases:


Used a gift card!
and ordered this using Xmas money.


Sample pages here:

The First T-34<br>Birth of a Legend : The T-34 Model 1940 - TANKOGRAD Publishing - Verlag Jochen Vollert - Militärfahrzeug

 

I went back and forth on it too. Two things decided me. Firstly the sample pages showed it’s got some substance to it. Secondly it’s a limited print run of 999 copies so you know it’s going to be selling for even more insane prices within the year .

 

Hello Mark
thanks for tipping Ben Kite's Stout Hearts. Reading it now, enjoyable.

Thankfully
Juha

 

Another distraction, but I can't resist well-written memoirs and this recently published book chimes with my last two reads. Take a look at the generous preview on Amazon (useful maps, too):



In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves.

The relentless tempo of events defies belief. Raging seas, inhospitable glaciers, hurricane-force winds, helicopter crashes, raids behind enemy lines--the Squadron prevailed against them all, but the cost was high. Holding fast to their humanity, D Squadron's fighters were there at the start and end of the Falklands War. Theirs was the first Union Jack raised over Government House in Stanley.

Across an Angry Sea is a chronicle of daring, skill and steadfastness among a tight-knit band of brothers; of learning fast, fighting hard, and winning through.

Preview here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Across-Ang...551281764&sr=8-1&keywords=across+an+angry+sea

 

Well, I did just sift through New To You Books in Cosham and my patience was rewarded: I found a copy of Assault Crossing by Ken Ford (which I passed up on in Toronto and kicked myself for that) and Ill Met By Moonlight (the only copy I've seen for sale in Toronto, the proprietor has a vastly inflated idea of the value of used books, and wants the equivalent of 10 pounds for it!)

 

That's a great subject in any case!

 

I can give it a thumbs up VP. Good little reference.
The Tankograd book has arrived and at first look is very promising. I'l do a brief review when I'm done.


Picked this up cheap and it looks worth. Dispenses with a number of accepted as true conclusions about the Anglo-US aircraft relationship. Good coverage on the P39 purchase.
The Arsenal of Democracy

 

Picked up this wee pile from David's Books in Letchworth.

Amazing selection... excellent second hand section, and great prices.

 

The Monty book is a decent read.

 

how do you get time to read books

another one from The Works 3 quid
Island Fortress ( an island under siege Malta)

 

This one is justifiable. Ordered and paid for a first edition on eBay of Charlie Company (memoir from 2 Camerons, 4th Ind Div), but it was lost in the post.

It's been a long time since that happened to me (one book went to Australia and back but it arrived in the end) and I'm always suspicious, but the chap sent me the receipt to show that another customer's book posted along with mine was also lost.

Anyway, having finally got the refund, I immediately spent it on this:



The author was pretty much the expert on the Falklands, having mapped the coastline pre-1982, and was (as the cover suggests) Brigadier Julian Thompson's principal advisor during the planning stages--I'm finishing off Thompson's own book No Picnic right now.

So it's justified--all right?

 

I would have to say so!

Yesterday I went to Hever Castle. You might not be aware that on its grounds is the museum of the Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum. I was met by the curator, Dan Taylor (he also makes resin model kit modifications if you do scale models). I just HAD to buy a copy of his book on Villers Bocage

 

It would have been rude not to.

 

Might have been dangerous not to - there's probably a dungeon.