What are we reading?

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mirth

Quote from: Toonces on October 22, 2017, 08:40:49 AM
Quote from: bob48 on October 19, 2017, 06:16:23 AM
Can anyone recommend a book covering the general history of the war in the Pacific, please. I've read odd bits, but not a good chronological history.

Costello's Pacific War is widely considered the best single volume treatment of the war.  It is very good.

Toland's The Rising Sun is an cel lent single volume account told from the Japanese perspective.

I highly recommend both.

I'm just finishing Eagle Against the Sun. It's quite good.

https://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Against-Sun-American-Japan/dp/0394741013
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bbmike

^Good to hear, that's already on my shelf waiting to be read.
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Gusington

Finished Salem's Lot last night. Enjoyed it, some creepy if not overtly scary scenes. The edition I have also had a couple of short stories also set in Salem's Lot, including a Lovecraftian one set in 1850 that was also very good. Next I think I will read the first book in Victor Foia's Dracula Chronicles series, Son of the Dragon.


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That art looks more like Cthulhu: Mafia Buttonman.
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
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Picked these up at the Pentagon library yesterday.




Gusington

Just started 'Lore' by Aaron Mahnke, based on the podcast and also the new show of the same name on Amazon.


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Gusington

About to start Book One of the Dracula Chronicles: Son of the Dragon, by Victor Foia.


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Gusington

About to begin Dracula's Wars: Vlad the Impaler and Rivals by James Waterson.


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WallysWorld

Reading and very much enjoying Osprey's "Israeli A-4 Skyhawk Units in Combat" by Shlomo Aloni.
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Martok

Yesterday, I finished up Five Days in London: May 1940 by John Lukacs.  It takes a look at Churchill's early War Cabinet (towards the end of May, just as the direness of the Dunkirk situation was becoming clear), and the fateful decisions made by its members over whether to negotiate with Hitler or continue fighting.  Interesting stuff. 


Today, I began rereading Chesapeake by James Michener for the first time in over twenty years.  (I stumbled across a used copy at a bookstore a couple months back, and -- recognizing the title -- I had to pick it up.)  Thus far, it's every bit as good as I remember. 
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Gusington

Starting Osrpey's Medieval Polish Armies by David Nicolle.


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"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus