Those nice folks at "After The Battle".

Discussion in 'Postwar' started by James S, Nov 7, 2008.

  1. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    I've just ordered the 3 vols of the Blitz :D

    Is anyone going to post some pic's from the Falklands one then?

    Pretty please ;)
     
  2. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    Cheers Paul.

    Adam....I am resisting the mags but I can't stop getting the books (7 so far this year) -Birthday next week, so I expect a few more to add to the collection. I'm loving the Op Market Garden Volumes at the moment, very well put together. :D

    Believe me, he likes them ATB books very much!!

    Andy showed me one of the Marken Garden books and I thought the drool on the pages was from the dog. It was definitely Andy and not the dog. The dog was making serious headway into the biscuits:D:D
     
  3. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Barney ate my Mums cake too....She wasn't best pleased :lol:
     
  4. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    With a face like Barney's you can't be cross for very long. Hungry maybe, but not cross.:)
     
  5. James S

    James S Very Senior Member

    Andy
    I've just ordered the 3 vols of the Blitz :biggrin:

    Is anyone going to post some pic's from the Falklands one then?

    Pretty please
    You must have shares in the plant !!;)

    Will post some on later this eveing when I get back fro "the black pit".
    In the meantime Andy I am sending you a "first available" appointment for out patients.
    We are talking electric shocks associated with words "After The Battle" "books" and "bank cards",
    As the law officer said in "My Cousin Vinney" "We're going to pas enough electricity through you to light up Birmingham".:D
     
  6. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    There is light at the end of the tunnel.....I think there's only 3 more I want :lol:
     
  7. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

    I've just ordered the 3 vols of the Blitz :D

    Is anyone going to post some pic's from the Falklands one then?

    Pretty please ;)

    You'll like 'The Blitz' ones, Andy.
     
  8. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    I thought I might mate, I'm interested to read about SE London where my parents grew up. I need another B/day though so I can get Air War over France and Battle of Britain to read before I start on them :)
     
  9. James S

    James S Very Senior Member

    Falklands
    Somer for "Uncle Andy". :D

    Owing to book size some may not come out as planned .
    "The Red and Green Life Machine" a well known photo of Rick Jolly and howe the deserted plant looks today.

    A crater from one of the Vulcan strikes near Stanley Airfield.
    Keith Mills .
    That well known photo of a dead Argentine soldier two halfs of the one photo showing Argentine POW's after Goose Green .
    The grave of paratrooper David Alan Parr.
     

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  10. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Well I think its safe to say - thas another book I'll be getting !
     
  11. Mullet94

    Mullet94 Senior Member

    Another one for my list as well, which order to buy all these books in though. :confused:
     
  12. Paul Pariso

    Paul Pariso Very Senior Member

    I thought I might mate, I'm interested to read about SE London where my parents grew up. I need another B/day though so I can get Air War over France and Battle of Britain to read before I start on them :)

    Hello Drew,
    I grew up in SE London, where are your parents from? :)
     
  13. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Mullet Buy the books in date order-start at the Blitzkreig and work your wat throught then. I've found they link into each other rather nicely :D
     
  14. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

  15. Paul Pariso

    Paul Pariso Very Senior Member

  16. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Can I just publically say how much I 'LIKE' my GF.

    I have just signed for The Battle Of France and The Battle Of Britain from the delivery man :D She's just told me it was for looking after her when she was under the weather recently.

    So what I want to know is when she's going to be ill next :unsure: Does that make me shallow?


    ps Hows the Falklands Book coming on anyone ?

    Cheers
    Andy
     
  17. James S

    James S Very Senior Member

    Its to thier usual high standard Andy ...why don't you just subscribe to the mag or do a window shop on some back issues....you know you want to :);):D
     
  18. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    The trouble with me and them mags.

    If I start I'll want No.1 and go through them all....But I stay clear me thinks.

    So any surprises or shocks in the Falklands book? I think this next on my list.
     
  19. James S

    James S Very Senior Member

    It does paint a much fuller picture that I have seen to date - the input from those who were there in terms of service men and Islanders is excellent.
    Although many of the events are known , they are better detailed and much more alive if that sounds correct.
    Above all you ( speaking for myself) feel it was a small war which cost a lot of young lives - a war which should never had to be fought in the first place.

    Whilst MT came out of it very well , it was her goverments policies which made it possible for us to travel to the far end of the Atlantic to fight a war which we were grossly unprepared for - and all at the drop of a hat.

    I had my doubts about it foir them - type casting them in the WW2 and WW1 role but make no mistakes Andy this is an excellent book , a big chunk of military history which is well put together.
     
  20. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    I have been saving The Falklands Then & Now for a period when I didn't have any work (well... almost no work...). Been looking through it over the weekend - what an absolutely superb piece of work. I actually think it is arguably one of the best and detailed Then & Nows they have ever produced. I know its a hefty price, but worth every penny (but must confess mine was a pressie... !)
     

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