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Book Review Slog or Swan: British Army Effectiveness in Operation Veritable – February – March 1945

Slog or Swan: British Army Effectiveness in Operation Veritable – February – March 1945 Dermot Rooney (Helion & Company, Warwick, 2025) I...

Thread by: Tom OBrien, Dec 9, 2025, 14 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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American bombing strategy on Japan: two books reviewed (briefly)

Dr Robert Lyman's latest email has two reviews of book on the air or aerial war against Japan: In my latest ‘Book Friday’ I was delighted to read...

Thread by: davidbfpo, Mar 30, 2025, 1 replies, in forum: War Against Japan
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Book Review The AMX 13 Light Tank. A complete History.

IMAGES OF WAR: THE AMX 13 LIGHT TANK A Complete History By Guy Gibeau, Peter Lau, M. P. Robinson Imprint: Pen & Sword Military Series:...

Thread by: von Poop, Apr 14, 2024, 0 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Book Review Home Guard Manual 1941

One of the more unexpected gifts this Christmas was this Home Guard Manual... [ATTACH] Having spotted it (in the Spotted Cow pub) my wife asked...

Thread by: SteveDee, Jan 4, 2024, 2 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Book Review Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-45. Anthony Tucker-Jones.

[ATTACH] Tank Wrecks of the Western Front, 1940–1945 By Anthony Tucker-Jones Imprint: Pen & Sword Military Series: Images of War Pages: 130...

Thread by: von Poop, Dec 20, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Book Review Advice needed: reading recommendations

Lads, as the next step in my reading tour of WW2 and points beyond, I am about to undergo the Gazala Gallop, and accordingly, I would like to ask...

Thread by: Warlord, Nov 2, 2023, 17 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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A Very Useful Book

During current research into my Fathers WW2 Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve service, I discovered the following book: HOSTILITIES ONLY - TRAINING...

Thread by: Shoto, Sep 23, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: The War at Sea
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Book Review The Battle of the Beams by Tom Whipple

A review by Dr. Robert Lyman:What do the code-names Grocer, Cigar, Jostle, Pieprack, Bagful, Blonde, Boozer, Barbara, Barbarossa, Bernhard and...

Thread by: davidbfpo, Jun 27, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Book Review The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku

This is a wonderful book. Eddie grew up in a happy, loving, well-to-do, German family. He considered himself German first and Jewish second. But...

Thread by: SteveDee, Jun 27, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Three American WWII novels: your opinions

I am shortly going to be teaching a class about the American World War II novel, focusing on the three books which are regarded as classics in...

Thread by: TTH, Mar 22, 2023, 4 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Book Review Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis

This book by Christian Lewis (aka "Chris Walks The UK") is part autobiography and part journal of his epic walk around the coastline of the UK....

Thread by: SteveDee, Feb 23, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Book Review Trautmann: The Biography by Alan Rowlands

I found this to be a very interesting book covering the life of Bernhard Carl Trautmann, aka Bert. The first third of this book was of the most...

Thread by: SteveDee, Feb 11, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Lieutenant R.N.V.R. Patrick George Troughton MiD (1920-1987)

To my generation, he is better known as the actor that played the 2nd incarnation of Dr. Who. In his biography, written by his son Michael,...

Thread by: SteveDee, Sep 3, 2022, 7 replies, in forum: The War at Sea
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Correlli Barnett

I notice that Correlli Barnett died on 10 July and here is the link to his obituary in The Times:...

Thread by: JDKR, Aug 12, 2022, 17 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Book Review Ladybird Book of the Desert War

Didn't like it very much. http://rommelsriposte.com/2020/05/05/book-review-the-desert-war-ladybird-by-james-holland/ The book has the air of a...

Thread by: Andreas, Jun 12, 2022, 15 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army

Has any of you read this? Is it worth buying?

Thread by: JeremyC, May 18, 2022, 12 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Excoriating Reviews.

I like a nice vicious book review, despite being personally not very good at it. Share 'em here. Recent Churchill: What the Marxist Tariq Ali...

Thread by: von Poop, May 12, 2022, 12 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Book Review Camouflage - Eric H Larson.

Camouflage. Modern International Military Patterns. [ATTACH] By Eric H Larson Imprint: Pen & Sword Military Pages: 496 Illustrations: 600 colour...

Thread by: von Poop, Mar 31, 2022, 0 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
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Brigadier James Ronald (Jumbo) MORRIS, DSO*, Gurkha Rifles

I have just finished reading ‘A Signal Honour’ by Robin Painter. He was involved in the first Chindit expedition (Operation Longcloth), the...

Thread by: Skoyen89, Mar 5, 2022, 34 replies, in forum: Burma & India
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Book Review Defeating the panzer Stuka Menace. David Lister.

Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War [ATTACH] By David Lister [IMG] Pages: 264 Illustrations: 60...

Thread by: von Poop, Feb 1, 2022, 4 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio

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