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...
IMAGES OF WAR: THE AMX 13 LIGHT TANK A Complete History By Guy Gibeau, Peter Lau, M. P. Robinson Imprint: Pen & Sword Military Series:...
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...
[ATTACH] Tank Wrecks of the Western Front, 1940–1945 By Anthony Tucker-Jones Imprint: Pen & Sword Military Series: Images of War Pages: 130...
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...
During current research into my Fathers WW2 Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve service, I discovered the following book: HOSTILITIES ONLY - TRAINING...
A review by Dr. Robert Lyman:What do the code-names Grocer, Cigar, Jostle, Pieprack, Bagful, Blonde, Boozer, Barbara, Barbarossa, Bernhard and...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
I notice that Correlli Barnett died on 10 July and here is the link to his obituary in The Times:...
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...
Has any of you read this? Is it worth buying?
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...
Camouflage. Modern International Military Patterns. [ATTACH] By Eric H Larson Imprint: Pen & Sword Military Pages: 496 Illustrations: 600 colour...
I have just finished reading ‘A Signal Honour’ by Robin Painter. He was involved in the first Chindit expedition (Operation Longcloth), the...
Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War [ATTACH] By David Lister [IMG] Pages: 264 Illustrations: 60...
Dunkirk to D-Day The Men and Women of the RAOC and Re-Arming the British Army [ATTACH] By Philip Hamlyn Williams Imprint: Pen & Sword History...
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