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Currently reading this one for a book review for Osprey Publishing.
ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier - Gallipoli and Palestine 1915–18
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a little light reading for the 1972 easter offensive book, i thought it was a much heavier tome.
the second book which i am a third of the way through is “Born Twice” which is about another SOG member and contains an interesting briefing the author received whilst training to be a Green Beret about how they knew where all the POW MIA’S were and what was likely to happen to them at the end of the war. all of this at the beginning of the authors training circa 66/67
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A must-read.
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Reading this one for a book review for Pen & Sword Books and Casemate Publishers.
Puma Sdkfz 234/1 and Sdkfz 234/2 Heavy Armoured Cars: German Army and Waffen-SS, Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944-1945
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As i have already subscriptions on the other im focus magazines …Luftwaffe and U boot i had to have this one to .
(they have the best Photos drawings and stories )
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Just finished this one I found in the pre-owned books section of a charity shop.
Didn’t really add much to the film. And Roddenberry had some odd ideas about the future of humanity. Definitely a book of it’s time much like the movie was.
Next up, the novelization of Close Encounters that they also had on the shelf.
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i remember buying that book when the film came out, does it have the screen shots from the movie in centre pages?
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Yes and all in pretty good condition too. Some of them look like publicity photos rather than actual stills.
Somewhere I’ve got the set of plans for the Enterprise, shuttles and other ships that were released at the time.
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So you’d think after 80 years we’d know everything about WW2, right?
I’m two-thirds into this revelation and seldom has my flabber been more gasted. It’s no revisionist bull, it’s scrupulously referenced and – well, you really couldn’t make this stuff up. As several reviews say it reads like a Flemming novel but, unbelievably, it’s true. While received wisdom says the Allies won because the Germans were too arrogant or stupid to believe their Enigma codes could be broken…weeelll guess what, the Germans were actually no slouches in the Espionage department themselves – and they got lucky – almost - in bumping off the Big Three simultaneously at their Tehran conference.
A major what-if, highly recommended if only because I can’t put it down.
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A member of this forum sends me this book. He didn’t want any money, also not the delivery costs and I want to go on with this. If anyone is interested in this book I would send it to him after I have read it and hope he goes on with that. But it’s not a must do.
It’s a really good book, the best I got the last time. I first wanted to finish another but after take a look I must read it at once.
One example: one chapter is about Lee’s special order 191 and the man who lost it ( maybe not D.H. Hill? ). Really interesting.
So if anyone is interested, please send me a pm
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Gifted by a good friend. He know I love modeling and he already read them.
Added them to my reading list.
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That looks A+, please let us know what you think of the book, Harv.
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Will do, Just got started on it but so far it is an nice book. Interesting text and excellent pictures. Should have it finished and my review written up and submitted within a couple of weeks. First I have to finish up my review of an Osprey title and then on to this one.
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Klaus;
a very short few days prior to this grand event, Maj. General Koster gave us newbies a pep talk out by the beach in Chu Lai. It was like a lightening rod to the unseasoned hapless child still dripping blood from his unbellical cord. He went into this and that, and then said a little about a thing called Tet (what’s that?). He all but called out unit numbers (as if that mattered much), and ended his exhortation with the idea that some of us would see the enemy in tanks. Most thought he was smoking the good stuff (I was sorta bewildered).
About a month rolled by and I was beginning to think that “hey if this is all it is; I can do this for 12 months”. I was placed out on an LP that was maybe five hundred yards south of the 198th Headquarters over looking Chu Lai and Highway One with dire instructions to never use the radio but just the squelch button. To my left was the POL, and the trash dump to the right. The whole damned place blew up right in front of me. Close enough to feel the heat and the shock wave. This was right at midnight, and I was not scared as much as I was stunned. I could see the rockets be launched to my left (looking due north). Can’t leave and can’t used the damned radio! This was probably my first outting with the 60 (known as “Digger”), and just loaded it with a belt that must have been six feet long (G!). Never fired a shot as I was afraid to. Next morning they come an get us off the top of the hill top. We go back and they come an get everybody in the mess hall to come over an listen to the radio traffic on the fire push. These guys are in an argument with a Marine Major asking for his 105’s to shoot into Lang Vie (A101). The Marines refuse to shoot, and you could hear the gun fire and tank engines running. This was all going thru the Div. Arty network, so you can’t hide it! The place was over run and then retaken in the next 48 hours with a MIKE Force led by a guy I would come to know six months later. I’ve been in Lang Vie once or twice many years ago and the burnt out tanks were still there. At the time I never quite grasped what it meant.
I was stuck on the LP’s for a solid week and went to one about two hundred yards outside the wire the next night. That became the longest six days of my life
gary
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Pretty good book, but doesn’t go far enough. What happened to all the ground pounders? What happened to the MIA’s south of the 17th Parallel> What happened to the 315 POW’s held in Laos that a certain President knew about?
It’s been 50+ years and society doesn’t want to know about it! That’s the answer
gary
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due to the CIA still fighting the war unofficial and using drug money to do so, they were never going to let rescue missions hamper their activities, the war in Laos i think ended in about 1991 based on a book i read about the war in Laos.
if any of these MIAs are still alive, rescuing them would be a pyric victory and i suspect their mental state would be so conditioned to life in Laos etc that if they were returned they simply couldn’t handle it and would probably die of shock within 12 months. afterall the America theu knew no longer exists only in history books, most of their families, mom,dad syblings etc will have died and any kids they had would acults and total strangers to them.
i personally find it disgusting and repugnant that these men were abandoned and that some people benefited greatly from these men not coming home, former senator Cain is someone i would like to questioned more on his antics as a POW, and why is his military recorded now classified and permanently sealed.
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Garwood was the best answer, and it makes me sick in my stomach knowing he took the answers to the grave.
What most people fail to realize is that the U.S. military was a two (if not three) class system. Officers were treated far differently than enlisted men were, and even then you could take that apart with the fact that boots on the ground were never treated the same as boots off the ground. Ground pounders got little if any respect as they were just a warm body with no name. In my A.O. alone there were quite a few MIA’s, and with a couple exceptions; most were ignored. Even veterans organizations (you know who you are) won’t talk about it, but in the hall ways and late nights at the bar it comes up. As long as I can have a heart beat; I will press this issue. WHERE ARE THEY?
gary
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Gary,
as far as i know Robert Garwood is still alive, why do think he is dead? all the info i have on him is he is still alive.
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