Grand unified books thread

[Syt]

Well, word of mouth has it that the different Mandalorians will be retconned to work together within the different media.

[Sophie Scholl]

Well, word of mouth has it that the different Mandalorians will be retconned to work together within the different media.

Meh.  Still won't get me a finish from Traviss, as she has moved onto other projects and said that the Star Wars universe was fun while it lasted, but has moved on.

[11B4V]

Ordered Georg Maier's Drama Between Budapest and Vienna: The Final Fighting of the 6th Panzer-Armee in the East - 1945

It's got top reviews and apparently gives a detailed German account of  Operation "Spring Awakening" among other things.

For my comiedic relief I shall reread Caidin's The Tigers are Burning

[11B4V]

Drama Between Budapest and Vienna. What a beatiful book.


Hard cover, large format (9" x 12") with 509 text pages, nearly 1,000 footnotes, 16 pages of photos, 124 appendices and a separate 32-page full-color map book.

Georg Maier, the former Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the 6. (SS)-Panzer-Armee.

Here's a snippet from a review.

This story is highly researched and is presented in great detail on a daily basis. The coverage includes the captures, victories and defeats by each unit on each side. It also includes the planning and objectives for each drive as well as the results and meaning of the results. The German commanders are given good coverage as well for they have major impact, sometimes positive and sometimes negative on the results. Generals Balck, Gille and Grolman in the field and General Guderian back in Berlin are given special attention. Balck frequently overstepped his authority and caused a lot of friction. With the inclusion of war diary entries and communiques between commanders as well as with Berlin, the reader can sense what the German Command were experiencing. There were also a few letter fragments from the field that help you understand what the infantry was experiencing.

Mr Maier's effort is truly outstanding. Using war diaries of Division, Corps and Army diaries plus other primary and secondary sources has reconstructed in such detail an important piece of history for posterity.

[crazy canuck]

I just finished Eco's The Prague Cemetary.  Nicely crafted novel that will appeal to both JR/Malthus and Slargos but in order for Slargos to fully enjoy the novel Slargos will have to ignore the caveat of a reviewer that this novel is meant to be ironic and the more simple minded should avoid it. Once he has done that he will find full justification for all his beliefs.

[Josephus]

That's on my Christmas wish list. I'm a huge fan of Eco's. (although his last one not so much)

[Sheilbh]

Anyone know of any decent books on the Dutch War of Independence?

[sbr]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, the first book of Edmund Morris' 3 volume biography of Teddy Roosevelt.  Very good so far.  Anyone read the entire work?

[jimmy olsen]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, the first book of Edmund Morris' 3 volume biography of Teddy Roosevelt.  Very good so far.  Anyone read the entire work?

I've read the first two, but not the third. They're very good.

[Maladict]

Anyone know of any decent books on the Dutch War of Independence?

The Dutch Revolt by Geoffrey Parker (seems to be out of print)
The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 by Jonathan Israel (not just about the war, obviously)

[Valdemar]

Any one read "the dwarves" series by a German author, I think he is called Heist.

If so, what do they compare to?

Read the awakend and innocent mage books recently, they were quite fun, if light, reading, but I stalled a quarter way into the follow up. Predictable as hell.

Read the Arthur books by Cornwell instead, quite good and made me pick up his alfred series again (dropped it after 3 books last time)

I can recommend his novel Azincourt, set, obviously in France right before and during the battle.

V

[Threviel]

Any one read "the dwarves" series by a German author, I think he is called Heist.

If so, what do they compare to?

Read the awakend and innocent mage books recently, they were quite fun, if light, reading, but I stalled a quarter way into the follow up. Predictable as hell.

Read the Arthur books by Cornwell instead, quite good and made me pick up his alfred series again (dropped it after 3 books last time)

I can recommend his novel Azincourt, set, obviously in France right before and during the battle.

V

Stay away from the dwarves unless you like low quality fantasy with plot holes bigger than Middle Earth. They are acceptable airplane reads, but little else.

[Josephus]

Is it uncool to say I'm enjoying the latest Stephen King book? It's not exactly 14th century history or anything, but it is the sort of nerdy alternate universe genre you guys like. In this one, man steps into past to stop Oswald from killing Kennedy.

[Scipio]

Is it uncool to say I'm enjoying the latest Stephen King book? It's not exactly 14th century history or anything, but it is the sort of nerdy alternate universe genre you guys like. In this one, man steps into past to stop Oswald from killing Kennedy.

That is such a tired idea.  All those fucking baby boomers and their goddamn Kennedy obsession.  Fuck the Kennedys, and fuck the baby boom generation that made them possible.

For fuckssakes, he's the second most worthless president ever assassinated.  GET OVER IT.

[Josephus]

Did you want me to lend it to you when I'm done?