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Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:40 pm**

You may or may not remember a best seller by Viktor Suvorov called

'Spetsnaz. The Story Behind the Soviet SAS'

http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/

Im currently reading that.

So, Are you reading a book (hard copy or online) at the moment? 'Fess up!?

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:59 pm**

Just bought one called Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs about wastage and stuff in the military, suppoed to be very good and funny in places but haven't manged to start it yet

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:50 pm**

Armageddon (the battle for Germany 1944-45) by Max Hastings.

God knows why though

It's repetitive, overlong and a bit dull really but if he is to believed it is shocking the sheer incompetence of most Allied commanders and indeed almost everyone except the German Wermacht and the Soviet Generals of the later stages. Bomber Harris or Monty anyone?

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:52 pm**

Marco Polo. I like it, but then I love history books

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:20 pm**

I only read rubbish. Lots of it, but rubbish!

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:46 pm**

What - like Mills and Boon?

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:06 pm**

Fausto wrote:Armageddon (the battle for Germany 1944-45) by Max Hastings.

God knows why though

It's repetitive, overlong and a bit dull really but if he is to believed it is shocking the sheer incompetence of most Allied commanders and indeed almost everyone except the German Wermacht and the Soviet Generals of the later stages. Bomber Harris or Monty anyone?

I can tell you the ending if you want...

The German tanks were awesome.. sadly let down by leaders who couldnt grasp tank warfare and logisticians who couldnt support them. Just as well really!

Posted: **Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:15 am**

Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer - Hitlers Architecht and Armaments minister - Got banged up for 25 years at the Nuremberg War Trials and wrote this when he came out in the early seventies - bit heavy on the detail as the guy was a real anaorak - he minuted everything - but that makes it all the more factual if you see what I mean - If you like that sort of stuff from but from a fictional point of view try Fatherland by Robert Harris - a novel about what might have happened if the Germany had won the War - a great story - in fact any of his books are a good read, Enigma, Pompeii and Archangel - I think the BOOK PEOPLE did have the three of them on offer for a fiver - and no I don't work for them.

Posted: **Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:29 am**

nothing really specific atm but I did enjoy re reading "His Dark Materials"....

oh - i think in ww2 that there was no better fighting force than the Wermacht - there only problem was hitler's interference - and, for the most part I think they were brilliantly led

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:46 pm**

Fausto wrote:What - like Mills and Boon?

No even I haven't sunk to that level - ever!

I mostly read what's known as 'chick-lit', crime, and some fantasy stuff but a lot of that is too rubbishy even for me!

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:02 pm**

P J Tracy ?

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:45 pm**

Name doesn't mean anything to me....

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:06 pm**

The "Wizardry" series by Rich Cook. Kind of light, but interesting enough.

Also reading the 'Icelandic Sagas' volume 1. Now there's some heavy reading.

Posted: **Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:00 am**

Reading anything at the moment?

Nah - the town's gone right downhill since I moved from there to Coventry.

(.... and more seriously, just finished two more from Ben Elton - The First Casualty and Popcorn .... just a couple more titles to go to finish off all of his books. I always enjoy Michael Crighton's books .... just waiting for him to write another for me .... I have a copy of The Long Way Down ready to be started)

Posted: **Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:00 pm**

Swatchways and Little Ships by Maurice Griffiths, plus the usual diet of Yachting anf Bike magazines.