What are you reading at the moment?

I agree on the first bit but I'm tempted to cut Al Murray some slack because he does such a good job of imitating a poor person.

 

And stand down on the Team Spirit request. RWF Museum came to the rescue - Great Guys!

 

Just arrived
Tiger 131 The Forgotten Battle
Dale Oscroft



More about the battle than the ca[pture of the tank.

Deeply resrearched, covers all aspects from junior ranks to senior officers.

Covers the battle in depth.

An excellent book in my opinion.

 

Any chance to see an E-Book of 'Slog or Swan'?

All the best

Andreas

 

Forum member Chris C, in another forum thread, sparked me to dig this one out. And I am very grateful to him for that.

Kind regards, always,

Jim.





Here's t'other thread and the article in full:

Book Review - Micro Book Reviews

 

Dunno Andreas - up to the Helion massive. I'm not a fan of history e-books though. Cheap and copy-able are good features but the maps are too far from the words in Kindle and zooming is tricky. Unless technology improved since my last reader frazzled.

 

Yeah, it's definitely a trade-off. For me it's a choice between buying a book I will read, and one I know I won't read. These days I pretty much only do e-books as I mostly read in bed or while travelling.

All the best

Andreas

 

Referred to recently for a couple of other threads on the forum concerning The 2nd Armoured Battalion and The 6th Battalion.

Published in 1946, so any errors or inaccuracies within may be attributed to that.

And yes, I am a cheapskate and a curmudgeonly old git, but it's Christmas.

So, for all you good folks here who make the forum what it is, who are the forum no less, please find pdf attached below.

Kind regards, and joys of the season, always,

Jim.

 

That's beautiful thanks. I had a photoed copy cos skint from a library (Cranfield? Aldershot?) but had loads of blurs.
Pint owed!

 

Thank you Jim, thanks for sharing. Much appreciated!

 

Currently reading "Footsloggers - An Infantry Battalion at War 1939-45", by Peter Hart. It tells the story of an ordinary British infantry battalion during the war, the 16th Durham Light Infantry, who as part of 46th Division saw action in North Africa & Italy. Hart is an IWM historian and the book is predominately based on interviews done for the IWM World War Two Oral History Project. I've heartily enjoyed it so far, gives an accurate view of the war from the point of view of the PBI, with some interesting and little known facts thrown in, for example I had no idea that the 16th DLI were the only one of the 60 "Dunkirk" infantry battalions raised after the evacuation to be sent overseas as a combat formation, all the other 59 being either disbanded or retained as training & replacement formations.
Thoroughly recommended.

 

The 1908 Panhard GP looks pretty

 

The author died earlier this month:


Ernie also compiled two works:
- Rank and Rate - RN Officers Insignia since 1856
- Rank and Rate 2 - Insignia of RN Ratings, WRNS, RM, QARNNS and Auxiliaries
......... perhaps of some use to those trying to interpret unannotated photos and memorabilia.

Seemingly, the Royal Navy was slow to introduce distinguishing rate badges for those serving on the 'lower deck'. Even when they were introduced in 1853, the corresponding introduction of a uniform was still four years away.

 

A book that has come up previously on the forum; always worth a re-visit.

A life before Watership Down.

Always remember, never forget,

Jim.

 

My major interest....Airborne and the Suez.....

A lovely Xmas pressie from my beloved.

 

Martin Pegler's The Solitary War of a Sniper. It's about Harry Furness.

 

Im back at reading Once a Patricia by C Sydney Frost. I'd rate this as amongst the very best Canadian army memoirs - with the PPCLI in Sicily and onwards.

 

..... do now, courtesy of Santa.

Wondered if anyone had read:

billed as:
a fast-paced World War II thriller set in Egypt and Libya. An audacious gang of deserters have to be stopped before a top-secret weapon they have stolen is sold to the Nazis .......... a fictional account based on the story of his Uncle Frank ....... who arrived in Cairo to join the Special Investigation Branch of the Military Police to bring down a gang of deserters called the Dead-End Kids.

Cairo, according to specialist personnel at the time, remained an intelligence and security 'jungle.' Accounts of some other wartime deserter gangs are at:
https://www.peterboroughmilitaryhis...3-c61e-46b4-8c4e-a3e9c6468238/Deserters_1.pdf

 

Did the author watch "The Rat Patrol" as a youngster perhaps?

Kind regards, I'm not too keen on friction, I prefer factual writing, always,

Jim.

P.S. It sounds a novel idea though

 

A follow-up to bamboo43's 2018 Post 3419:

Courtesy of Dr. Robert Lyman's latest email

Link to read the chapter (It was written pre-WW2, so is quaint and horrible at once): Showing the Flag - a Naga Adventure

Oatts Wiki is, well amusing in places: Lewis Balfour Oatts - Wikipedia