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Any recommendations for scifi/fantasy?
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Coming to the end of The Soviets as Naval Opponents 1941-45. You know when a book is just so damn enjoyable you just don't want it to end? Well this is one such. Loki if you have any more naval recommendations then I want to hear about them!!
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Any recommendations for scifi/fantasy?
Elliott Kay writes both. I've been told Poor man's fight and Rich man's war are good scifi, and I've enjoyed his fantasy novels (everything else). Antares Dawn & sequels are space opera written by NASA engineer, and it shows. The complete Hammer's Slammers is scifi warfare with huge tanks that can shoot down satellites and artillery shells, written by veteran of Vietman War, David Drake.
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The Nameless War Trilogy

About 40% through the last one. These have all been a good read.
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And now for something completely different....

The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy (of LA Confidential fame)
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Just finished The Death of the Leaping Horseman, now I will read a book on Walter Model for the second time
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Finished up the Nameless War trilogy and have moved on to some military history. Liked his book on the Eastern Fron in 1914 and caught the 1915 one on sale so had to get it.

Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front in 1915
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Just finishing up Obedient Unto Death by Werner Kindler.
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'The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy' by Peter Wilson
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And now for something completely different....

The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy (of LA Confidential fame)
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'The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy' by Peter Wilson
Is it a interesting read? Fun? Or educational?
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'The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy' by Peter Wilson
Is it a interesting read? Fun? Or educational?
Interesting and educational.
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'The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy' by Peter Wilson
Is it a interesting read? Fun? Or educational?
Interesting and educational.
Added it to my to buy list. In the meantime I begun reading a Swedish book about the Thirty Years War.
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Is it a interesting read? Fun? Or educational?
Interesting and educational.
Added it to my to buy list. In the meantime I begun reading a Swedish book about the Thirty Years War.
It's very readable despite it's length.
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Any recommendations for scifi/fantasy?

I just finished A Cavern of Black Ice, by J.V. Jones. I read the book back in the late 90's and I enjoyed it more the second time round.

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Whilst waiting for a new book on Jutland to arrive I am taking the opportunity to re-read Barcelona to Bedlam. I read this back in the late 90's and have forgotten most of it.

Essentially it is about the rift between businessman Alan Sugar (of The Apprentice) and football manager Terry Venables and their disastrous attempt to co-own Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in the early 90's.

The book is interesting in that the author starts out very much in Venables camp but quickly realises that the "bad guy" Sugar, may not have been so bad after all......
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Oil & Honor: The Texaco-Pennzoil Wars; Inside the $11 Billion Battle for Getty Oil.

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Started reading The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James. I am 6 chapters in and really enjoying it. I find it to be an easy and pleasurable read and also easy to digest the information.

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