Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
- Thread starter Lady Buck
- Start date
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Step by Step - Simon Reeve
pearl
Well-known member
I am re-reading The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (It's pretty grim)
jakarta
Well-known member
The account of the Red Army advancing into Germany and the pitiless scale of the rape, murder and general destruction is harrowing. Of course this was revenge for similar activities by the SS etc. in Eastern Europe but doesn't make pleasant reading. You can see why the German military wanted to serve on the Western rather than Eastern Front...
An obscure War Book got loaned to me by my ex RAF Pilot mate the other day. Gunners Moon is the story of an Air Gunner on Lancasters who started the War as Groundcrew but for some reason volunteered to become Aircrew on Heavy Bombers. His luck runs out around 2/3rd of the way through the Tour, but you could argue it was good luck as his whole crew survived the Crash Landing to become POWs. Unlike 55,000 of his colleagues.
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
Game of thrones
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
Nothing Ventured - Jeffrey Archer
The guy might be an arrse, but he can't half spin a yarn
The guy might be an arrse, but he can't half spin a yarn
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
A Parisian Affair and other stories by Guy De Maupassant. Great read!
Norman Potting
Well-known member
Death in Grimsby
Mr Cleansheets
New member
- Jun 7, 2017
- 98
That sounds like the easy way out of town...
Mr Cleansheets
New member
- Jun 7, 2017
- 98
Been re-reading the Sharpe series during lockdown. Cornwell is such a good story teller.
Has anyone read Phillip Kerr's football books? They get variable reviews on goodreads.
Has anyone read Phillip Kerr's football books? They get variable reviews on goodreads.
Reading two at the moment,
Nothing Ventured - Jeffrey Archer, as Barry Izbak said above, the guy might be an arse but he does tell a good story.
TAIL - END CHARLIES
The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944/45 - John Nichol & Tony Rennel
The title refers to both the battles fought by RAF Bomber Command and the USAAF at the tail end of the war and individual stories from the rear gunners who were also known as 'tail end charlies'. A very moving book that addresses the reality of the decisions made at the time as well as the moral questions that these decisions provoke when viewed retrospectively from both the Allies and Germans.
Nothing Ventured - Jeffrey Archer, as Barry Izbak said above, the guy might be an arse but he does tell a good story.
TAIL - END CHARLIES
The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944/45 - John Nichol & Tony Rennel
The title refers to both the battles fought by RAF Bomber Command and the USAAF at the tail end of the war and individual stories from the rear gunners who were also known as 'tail end charlies'. A very moving book that addresses the reality of the decisions made at the time as well as the moral questions that these decisions provoke when viewed retrospectively from both the Allies and Germans.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
A Time to Die - Wilbur Smith
MAN would this make a good movie.
MAN would this make a good movie.
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
Under Fire (Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse, it is the story of a French squad in the trenches in 1916 - seems a very good read so far...gives a different perspective on fighting on the Western Front.
Nobby Horton's Knob
New member
Just started 'Second Variety' by Philip K Dick
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
From Crime to Crime.
Richard Henriques
High court judge on his experiences in court, from the Jamie Bulger case to Shipman, Jill Dando, the Morecambe bay cockle pickers and the Leeds United players.
Interesting content written in the sort of puffed up superior way you would unfortunately expect from such a senior and self important member of the judiciary.
Richard Henriques
High court judge on his experiences in court, from the Jamie Bulger case to Shipman, Jill Dando, the Morecambe bay cockle pickers and the Leeds United players.
Interesting content written in the sort of puffed up superior way you would unfortunately expect from such a senior and self important member of the judiciary.
