Currently reading?

[ModernKiwi]

The First World War by John Keegan

[ModernKiwi]

I'm reading the 'a song of ice and fire' series.

Fire and Ice was what inspired me to get into medieval stuff.

[ModernKiwi]

Hmm yes, Stark to York isn't such a big leap either.

[Chasseur]

Advanced War Games by: Donald Featherstone

[Paul]

In Quest of the lost Legions by Major T. Clunn MBE, it´s a big subject here in Germany a the moment, and the man who planted trees by Jean Giono.
At the moment of edit, re-reading tony clunn´s Lost legions

[nybot]

I just finished Sharpe's Rifles and last night started Sharpe's Eagle.

I love these books as you know exactly what you are gonna get. Although from here on in I am going to try to read them in chronological order rather then starting with Waterloo and going backwards as I have been doing before.

Nybot

[efb]

TV & Showbiz section of the Daily Mail online.

[Waterloo]

I have a few on the go.

I'm poking away at various sections of Mark Adkin's "The Waterloo Companion", and I'm reading "A Very Brilliant Affair", a book about the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812.

I am also starting a side book called "Blackwater", about the mercenary company from the U.S.

Colin

[Paul]

Caeser´s invasion of Britain by Peter Berresford Ellis. came out in 1978 but has stood the test of time, loads of stuff about the celts and their social structures, beliefs and possibly what they thought of the romans.

[je_touche]

Fraser, George MacDonald: The Steel Bonnets. The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers, London: HarperCollins 1995 (many more editions, first published in 1971)

Highly recommended, excellent read.

[Fenton]

English Civil War by Peter Young and Richard Holmes...A fine little book for an overview of the whole period if you (like me) dont know a huge amount about it

[Chasseur]

I finished reading War gaming Air-Borne Operations by Featherstone and I am currently reading Victoria Colonial Warfare Africa by the same author.... Jeff

[rpardo]

Napoleon's Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War by Ronald Fraser
Excellent!

[ColeF]

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius. Awesome book, it really improved my opinion of Julius.

[Susofrick]

Right now I'm reading a Swedish book about early medieval Europe (400 AD - 800 AD). It is not translated to English, but the title would be something like "Time of heroes and saints". It is written by Swedish historian Dick Harrison. I haven't finished 1812 or 1914 yet (I have taken a small break from these two books), but I've ploughed through Raymond E. Feist's fantasy-series "Conclave of Shadows" (3 books) and "Darkwar saga" (3 books) in the meantime. Plan to read "Children of the furtrade" during the Autumn.

[efb]

I found it in this little used book store...in the tiny little town up north where my inlaws live.

It's not the best written book I've ever read...a lot of block quotes (one that's a page and a half long ), but the informations good.

I wasn't really aware of how big a role some of these small gunboats played in the Crimea.

[Wheeling Turn]

at the moment it is Ravenor Rogue. last book in the ravenor trilogy by Black Library/GamesWorkshop

[Paul]

"The illustrated Pirate Diaries" published by Terry Breverton, from an original diary by Alexander Exquemelin, who was a ships Surgeon with Captn Henry Morgan.
Original titel of the first published edition in 1678 " De Americaenische Zee-Rovers".
Originally written in French it was then translated from dutch into german , then into english and now I´m reading the german version translated back from english. !!! However much has been lost in translation it shows that Pirates could organise themselves highly effectively into small armies and beat much larger groups of soldiers. It also tells of their cruelty, but it seems that what they got up to was pretty normal procedure at the time.

[Peter]

At the moment a book of one of my favorite writers; Clive Cussler. More specific "The Navigator".

Greetings Peter

[Maurice]

At this very moment I am reading new posts on this forum