[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Nicks]

having a change from thrillers and crime mysteries and reading The Traitor Of Colditz by Robert Verkaik.

Its absolutely brilliant. Written like a story, not like a textbook, but all factual, it really is a brilliant read. Lots of stuff in this book I'd never heard of, and the level of research is evident throughout. Highly recommended.

I'm now going to have to seek out the old BBCTV series "Colditz" again.

Just finished it last week.
Brilliant read

 

[Nicks]

Just started The Escape Artist by Johnathan Freeland.

All about the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world.

 

[Beach Hut]

The Collected Stories - Paul Theroux

 

[Eeyore]

Turning Over the Pebbles-Mike Brearley

 

[Beach Hut]

South from the Limpopo - Dervla Murphy

 

[Easy 10]

This is hugely entertaining.
Who knew that Douglas Bader was an absolute c*nt ?

 

[Gwylan]

This is hugely entertaining.
Who knew that Douglas Bader was an absolute c*nt ?

I thought that was pretty widely known

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Just started The Escape Artist by Johnathan Freeland.

All about the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world.

Should be plural (there were two of them).

 

[Easy 10]

I thought that was pretty widely known

Well it was news to me. Treated his batman like shit, and was generally despised for his rudeness and arrogance.
I may have to invest in a biography.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Katyn Massacre by Louis Fitzgibbon

 

[Beach Hut]

Nul Points - Tim Moore

 

[Don Quixote]

The Stand - Stephen King

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Jo Nesbo - Killing Moon. The last in the series.....

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Should be plural (there were two of them).

One of them was Rudi Vrba, who taught me in Vancouver (and signed my leaving pressy - a football). Amazing bloke.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Just started The Escape Artist by Johnathan Freeland.

All about the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world.

Just discovered this book is about Rudi Vrba. Crikey.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Just discovered this book is about Rudi Vrba. Crikey.

There is at least one film made of it, really good watch, part documentary, part dramatisation, with Vrba interviewed. I believe the two protagonists fell out in the end as the other guy didn't agree with Vrba's constant publicity seeking over the story.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Just started The Escape Artist by Johnathan Freeland.

All about the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

There is at least one film made of it, really good watch, part documentary, part dramatisation, with Vrba interviewed. I believe the two protagonists fell out in the end as the other guy didn't agree with Vrba's constant publicity seeking over the story.

Rudi wasn't seeking publicity for himself. And the big row was with people in his own community. He was unbelievably angry about passive gormless complicity. There is a lot of this on the wiki page: "In addition to blaming Kastner and the Hungarian Aid and Rescue Committee for having failed to distribute the Vrba–Wetzler report, Vrba criticized the Slovakian Jewish Council for having failed to resist the deportation of Jews from Slovakia in 1942. When he was deported from Slovakia to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland in June that year, the Jewish Council had known, he alleged, that Jews were being murdered in Poland, but they did nothing to warn the community and even assisted by drawing up lists of names.[258] He referred to Jewish leaders in Slovakia and Hungary as "quislings" who were essential to the smooth running of the deportations: "The creation of Quislings, voluntary or otherwise, was, in fact, an important feature of Nazi policy" in every occupied country, in his view.[259]"

Rudi was an amazing bloke. Always courteous, always dapper. His one bit of advice to me was this. Never explain. I understand very well what he meant.

 

[pearl]

Just finished re-reading No Country For Old Men
What a great story
Rest in peace Cormac McCarthy

 

[cuthbert]

The Romantic by William Boyd, I've enjoyed some of his other novels but this one I find very hard work. I've given up on Hide and Seek by James Patterson but it does have some football content which makes Roy of the Rovers seem realistic.