"The illustrated history of Gadget Warfare: The Vietnam War" by F. Clifton Berry Jnr.* 82nd Airborne.
All that materiel, all those crazy weapons, Puff the Magic Dragon, Agent Orange, Daisy Cutters, CBU-55 FAE.
And they still lost to little men with AK47s and bicycles.
If there's something to be grateful to Harold Wilson for, it's keeping us out of that mess.
*That's the late F. Cliffton Berry Jnr.
https://www.airforcemag.com/f-clifto...-jr-1931-2020/
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Just Bought : Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - Bettany Hughes
Reread & recycled : Battle Circle - Piers Anthony (found it in the loft)
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostNext: "AD500" by Simon Young: a fictionalised journey through the dark age British Isles by a Byzantine "embassy".
Can't say it's a brilliant read but it's a good deal easier going than the aforementnioned.
Next: TBD. There's so little choice..
A book extracted from a bookshelf upstairs:
"A brief history of Stonehenge" by the recently late Aubrey Burl (1926 - 2020). Mostly Sais free I'd have thunk since they didn't start turning up until about 400 AD and it would appear that those who built it buggered off before the Celts turned up.
Ancient Alien Researchers are of the opinion that the Aliens from the Pleiades abducted them.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 7 August 2022, 15:03.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostA bit of a change: "Garry Halliday and the disappearing diamonds".
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garry-Halli.../dp/B0000CKQWV
You really have to be anto remember these epics.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162080...m_flmg_act_134
as watched on a12"9" b&w Pye console TV back in the mysts of time of 1960.
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-Pye-CV306.JPG
Next: TBD.
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rereading the jean le flambeur series by Hannu Rajaniemi.
my brain hurts ;-)
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A bit of a change: "Garry Halliday and the disappearing diamonds".
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garry-Halli.../dp/B0000CKQWV
You really have to be anto remember these epics.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162080...m_flmg_act_134
as watched on a12"9" b&w Pye console TV back in the mysts of time of 1960.
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-Pye-CV306.JPGLast edited by DoctorStrangelove; 30 July 2022, 10:01.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
Done: next: The Vitamin Murders by James Fergusson: the murders in France in 1952 of the Drummond family. (Seems like an easy read, must have matured on the shelf for about 10 years or so).
A Brief History of Science by Thomas Crump. The existence of a preface of some 20 pages may bode ill on this one.
It was still hard going.
Next: "AD500" by Simon Young: a fictionalised journey through the dark age British Isles by a Byzantine "embassy".
Can't say it's a brilliant read but it's a good deal easier going than the aforementnioned.
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I haven't read a book in ages. Every time I see this thread pop up I feel ashamed for not making an effort.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
Done: next: The subterranean railway by Christian Wolmar, being the history of the London Underground.
Probably not as easy a read as the Vitamins book but probably easier than The Brief History of Science has proved to be..
Next: "Drugs of Hallucination" by Sidney Cohen.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 22 July 2022, 09:08.
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Just finished
Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry – a really good read on an investigation into a hijacked tanker
The Glass Hotel – fiction novel by the author of Station Eleven, not quite sure what I think of it but tempted to read it again (was read on a long overnight flight)
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
Done: next: The Vitamin Murders by James Fergusson: the murders in France in 1952 of the Drummond family. (Seems like an easy read, must have matured on the shelf for about 10 years or so).
Probably not as easy a read as the Vitamins book but probably easier than The Brief History of Science has proved to be..
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Originally posted by Guy At Charnock Richard View PostI'm currently reading Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome.
As they say, a book is a magic portal to another dimension.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
Done: next: "James Watt" by L T. C. Rolt.
A Brief History of Science by Thomas Crump. The existence of a preface of some 20 pages may bode ill on this one.
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