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04-06-17, 02:04 PM | #1696 |
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Just started reading the Judge Dredd comics and damn they are good.
And a random question: Could anybody recomend me a good book about the US submarine warfare in the pacific? |
04-07-17, 04:39 AM | #1697 | |
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The Luck of the Draw: The Memoir of a World War II Submariner: From Savo Island to the Silent Service by USN (Ret.) Captain C. Kenneth Ruiz Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey
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04-09-17, 07:55 AM | #1698 |
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Tin Can Titans: The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron by John Wukovits
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04-28-17, 11:40 PM | #1699 |
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America's First Clash with Iran: The Tanker War, 1987-88 by Lee Allen Zatarain
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05-09-17, 02:39 PM | #1700 |
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Although I've been reading other books as well, I've been chipping away at this for almost two months now:
It's absolutely massive and in-depth, almost one million words in total, and has something like 3,000 photographs and almost 1,000 pieces of line art. Spent $100 for a signed copy shipped direct from the publisher, and I don't regret spending a penny. Still, it's an absolutely exhausting read, which explains why I'm taking a break about 4/5th of the way through volume two. My amazon review, if anyone's curious: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2W01X...SIN=1580072496 |
05-09-17, 02:54 PM | #1701 |
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^ Now that looks rather tasty
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05-17-17, 05:28 PM | #1702 |
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Not exactly the deepest book on the subject imaginable, but it has plenty of great photographs, and does a pretty good job covering the different eras of tank development equitably (1914-1939, WWII, and the Cold War each receive about the same number of pages). Also covers vehicles such as assault guns, armored cars, scout cars, counterinsurgency vehicles, etc. Also, some interesting "how it works" material in the back for us tank newbies. It even comes with two color prints (I got the M3A1 and StuG III). Not bad for $18! |
05-23-17, 04:06 PM | #1703 | |
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My review of Tank I wrote for Amazon:
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05-26-17, 01:14 PM | #1704 |
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The Heyday of Sail - volume 4 in Conway's History of the Ship series.
Volume 1 was about the development of the first boats into ships, ending with the Viking Longships. Volume 2 covered the Mediterranean Galley, from the ancient Phoenicians all the way to the gun-armed Galleasses of the Renaissance. Volume 3 talked about the development of the merchant/warship, from the British Cog through the Spanish Caravel and Galleon. Volume 4 covers the development of the Galleon into the sailing warships of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Volume 5 gives the same treatment to the sailing merchant, from 1650 through 1830. As always, individual articles are written by the leading experts in the field, with plenty of charts, graphs, period drawings and paintings. It compares the British and Dutch East Indiamen, the Dutch Fluyt and the development of Mediterranean shipping during the period. It is lacking in the area of Asian shipping at the time. The authors are aware of this and apologize in advance for not having included this important aspect of ship development. That aside, the book is a fine follow-on to the first four volumes, and to someone like me well worth reading. If you're looking for sea stories or exciting adventure, skip it. These are basically good reference volumes and valued for explaining what different ship-builders and shipping companies were thinking at the time, and how this affected where and how ships were built and used during the period of the sailing merchant ship.
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05-26-17, 02:30 PM | #1705 | |
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05-28-17, 04:21 PM | #1706 | |
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Spent some time with the new "Anatomy of the Ship" book on the Yamato and Musashi (okay, so technically it's a revised edition), and wrote a "brief" (okay, for me!) review of the book for Amazon. Quote:
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05-28-17, 06:26 PM | #1707 |
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Listening to Steel Hearts, Iron Boat on Audible. I have Iron Coffins and Das Boot in coming this week.
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05-28-17, 10:16 PM | #1708 |
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I am reading multiple books as always about 10 at a time ( no joke that is the only way I know how to without losing my interest in reading I get board easy)
lets Das Boot, For my country's freedom by Alexander Kent, a couple of star wars and star trek books and oh I am review applied physics. you see I am disaled can not get around very well due to spinabafata and other things I am also autistic so bear with me I live on a fixed income of less then $700 |
05-29-17, 06:17 AM | #1709 | ||
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05-29-17, 12:01 PM | #1710 | |
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Thanks for the suggestions, I have to get my hands on those too. I am currently reading "Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan" by Clay Blair Jr which is full of interesting details, but perhaps even too much detail, i seems to list every war patrol in the war....which might prove to be too much. I also have the habit of reading several books at the same time, normally 3 or 4, and I usually rotate between then, picking one a day. outside the naval field I am currently also reading: Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D’Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia by Jerry Capeci, Tom Robbins, beeing a fan of the Sopranos, goodfellas, etc, I enjoy books on the american mob. and also The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch series #4) by Michael Connelly
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