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As of now I am been reading texnologiya vlasti by abduraxman avtorxanov and re-reading pillars of salt by fadia faqir
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I have John Keegan's The Illustrated Face of Battle - a great read!
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I have John Keegan's The Illustrated Face of Battle - a great read!
:iagree: It certainly is. He is without peer imo as a military historian with a gift for explaining tactics for the layman.
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And i read Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts and Between The Woods and the water a few years ago. Wonderful writing. Wonder if the trilogy will ever be completed since he is now dead (a manuscript on his computer or in his desk hopefully!)
His other travel books are also great
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:iagree: It certainly is. He is without peer imo as a military historian with a gift for explaining tactics for the layman.
Even better than Liddell Hart!?!?
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And i read Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts and Between The Woods and the water a few years ago. Wonderful writing. Wonder if the trilogy will ever be completed since he is now dead (a manuscript on his computer or in his desk hopefully!)
His other travel books are also great
His powers of description are wonderful, and the evocation of a world about to vanish forever (the books are about a walk he made as a young man all the way from England to Istanbul in the 1930s) is somehow very moving.
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Even better than Liddell Hart!?!?
Now that's a tough one, but I think that I prefer the liveliness of Keegan to Hart's strictly accurate but rather dry accounts.
Maybe we should take our discussion about the relative merits of military historians offline and into PMs before we bore everyone else rigid! :)
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Naaahhhh.... it's all good. Keep it in the open.
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I know - another arty-farty thread. But hey we've had movies and music and stuff so why not let us know what your choice of reading is? What papers do you read - if any? What is the book you are presently reading? What type of books do you like and why? And what book perhaps most changed your life or had the greatest impact on you?
I'll kick-off by saying I'm presently reading Orlando Figes' history of the Crimean War "Crimea" and this morning spent an hour reading the Guardian, The Independent and the Telegraph.
im reading this thread like everyone else lol what r ya new?
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Well I am done with the Crimea and am now reading two 9/11 associated books.
"The 9/11 Wars" by Jason Burke - quite possibly the best "from the ground' look at the overall impacts internationally of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. Burke is a reporter for the Observer and Guardian in London (if you have a Kindle you can sample the opening chapters on that). It sits comfortably alongside "The Looming Tower" by Laurence Wright, a majestic study of the birth and rise of al-Queda.
And also a fiction about the creation of a memorial to the 9/11 victims "The Submission" by Amy Waldman.