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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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I was asked today abbout books on the more esoteric side of WW2 and said I'd put some titles up.
Books on strange weapons and systems; 'The Small Back Room', 'The Secret War', and one on camouflage and deception, I can't remember the title. Best book on tanks is 'Tank', by Patrick White. New bbook by Frederick Taylor is 'Dresden' best book I have read on the raid of Feb 13th 1945. Read 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. Anthony Beever's two books, 'berlin' and 'Stalingrad' are magnificent but extremely depressing.
That's enough to be going on with..... Enjoy!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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gus
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Posted - 14/04/2008 : 15:27
This is one of the best war stories i`ve read, a truly un - put - downable book, an amazing exploit of courage, loyalty and true british grit. this is a must to read...
Gus
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frankwilk
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Posted - 14/04/2008 : 17:22
I was in the Oxfam Bookshop today and found a boxed set containing the following books
Trench Warfare 1914-1918 by Tony Ashworth
The Imperial War Museum book of 1918 Year of Victory
Christmas Truce by Malcolm Brown & Shirley Seaton
Cockleshell Heroes Lucas Phillips
Das Reich by Max Hastings
The Greatest Raid of All by Lucas Phillips
The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill
Imperial War Museum the Book of the Western Front by Malcolm Brown The boxed set cost £62.93p when new and it is in New Condition A bargain at £10.99
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Posted - 14/04/2008 : 17:26
Currently looking to pick up The Somme a Day by Day Account by Chris McCarthy I am led to believe this is one of the best books on the Somme Campaign
Frank Wilkinson Once Navy Always Navy |
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Posted - 14/04/2008 : 19:41
A bargain indeed frank, theres some good reading in that lot.
Gus
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Tizer
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Posted - 14/04/2008 : 20:01
Well done Frank - not only have you got a bargain but you've made sure those books are in good hands. I'm terrible in secondhand bookshops - I want to give all the books a good home as if they were abandoned puppies. I've still got lots of paperback books I bought in the 1970s, especially Penguin/Pelican books, and I'm finally getting around to reading them. There's some great value in those old books - and they were written well too.
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 15/04/2008 : 07:40
Good description Tizer, my house is full of abandoned pups. I have another problem, my tastes are so esoteric that there is little demand for the books and they are dirt cheap!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 15/04/2008 : 10:46
I can relate to the abandoned pup syndrome!
I am currently awaiting the arrival of some custom made bookshelves. The old B & Q set-up (re-inforced with housebricks) have been threatening a collapse of Tay-Bridge proportions for some time!
I don't know about the current situation but, the late Tom Rolt was once bemoaning the fact that, when his books went into paperback form, he was getting no payment at all for them. You have to feel sorry for authors in that situation.
Malcolm
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