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Post by carmichael on Sept 2, 2006 8:45:28 GMT 1
I am reading, and would heartily recommend, a novel about the American revolution at the moment: 'Washington and Caesar', by Christian Cameron, ISBN 0-00-711271-8, pub Harper Collins. The author was in the US Navy and is balanced in his portrayal. The story shows Washington as Commander ofthe Continental Army and Caesar, one of his slaves, as a soldier in the loyalist corps.
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Post by al on Sept 8, 2006 18:45:44 GMT 1
Who's read Warfare in the Eighteenth century by Jeramy Black..... any good or not.........
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Post by steve stanley on Sept 8, 2006 19:24:35 GMT 1
Alright-ish...doesn't go into much detail as it's part of a "History of Warfare" type thing......for an overview,Duffy's "The Military Experience in the Age of Reason" is much better...& the p/b can often be picked up remaindered. Steve
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Post by al on Sept 9, 2006 20:25:18 GMT 1
Steve, Have picked up both the Warfare & the crucible of war the seven years war in North America books from ebay for literally a few quid the pair. You realise that i shall now know more than anyone ever in the history of knowing stuff and will have to start wandering about boring people with very interesting facts that i have misread from my new library of five books.....two of them being from the very elite ladybird publishing house.
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Post by steve stanley on Sept 10, 2006 4:50:50 GMT 1
Crucible v.good,but not light reading...being a old,non-pc type person I prefer Parkman...Hey! we can sit & impress each other with interesting & informative facts...now where's that privately published monograph on winter underwear of the 44th nov-dec '57?...... Steve
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Post by al on Sept 10, 2006 14:47:09 GMT 1
Non - PC .....!!!!! are you allowed to even utter such feelings in todays brave new backward world I was recently sent an article by a friend of mine who lives oop North, ( i shan't say where ) In the article they were talking about a group of re enactors who were regarded as utterly non PC because of the content of their display. It was latter pointed out to the magistrate ( yes it all went to court ) that the display given to the public was an accurate recreation of the period and that perhaps our new PC world had perhaps sheltered the members of the public and persons making the complaint from the real history of this country. Makes yer think dont it, The case was dropped . Anyhoo........who's Parkham.......your not talking about the village down the road from me are you and no i really dont want to even think about the 44th winter underwear....!!!!! Right i'm off to blast a fox or two with my trusty 12 bore.....................
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Post by steve stanley on Sept 10, 2006 19:58:23 GMT 1
Parkman,(Francis of that ilk) was THE great historian of The F&I wars..all of them...for us "Montcalm & Wolfe" is the apposite title...it's part of a 7-volume study"France and England in North America"...from the earliest days to Pontiac's uprising..ignore the fact he wrote over 100 years ago(so did Conan Doyle) and enjoy!...the non-pc bit is that he was a 19thcent WASP...& they are the Good Guys...French are a bit shifty,but basically ok 'cos they're European..& the only good Indian..etc..etc....bear this in mind & he tells a rattling yarn! Steve
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Post by al on Sept 29, 2006 18:34:16 GMT 1
Steve, You never mentioned that Crucible of war is 862 pages long, that means its going to take me about 900 days to read it.........!!!!!!
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Post by steve stanley on Sept 29, 2006 19:31:01 GMT 1
And I'm not even going to tell you which pages the dirty bits are on................... Steve
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Post by al on Nov 25, 2006 14:59:46 GMT 1
I've just bought Georgian country houses, Architecture, Landscapes and Society. Dana Arnold on Sutton publishing . www.suttonpublishing.co.ukA nice little inexpensive book covering a load of country houses plus a few interesting little buildings etc ................i was so impressed i bought two....!!!
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Roy
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Post by Roy on Dec 17, 2006 20:40:49 GMT 1
Nearly finished the 'Siege of Quebec and the Campaigns in North America 1757 - 1760' by Captain John Knox (Folio Society edition). Picked it up on Ebay, very good read. Have just got Parkman's 'Montcalm & Wolfe' and also Robert Rodgers diaries on e-books.
Yours Roy
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Roy
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Post by Roy on Dec 28, 2006 15:37:37 GMT 1
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Roy
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Post by Roy on Dec 28, 2006 16:25:38 GMT 1
Must have to much time on my hands at the moment. Have just found a book which may be of intrest to all the ladies out there 'Woman on the American Frontier' by William Worthington Fowler available as a free download from Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/etext/6808Yours Roy
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Post by Lucille on Dec 31, 2006 22:14:38 GMT 1
ooo, on that thought, I recently acquired an excellent volume from the Wennawoods Publishing group in the 'Jesuit Relations' series on 'Women in New France'....so that's just me and Irene then...! Fascinating reading though admittedly less on the Europeans than the natives...nay, the Aboriginees.
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Post by Irene on Jan 4, 2007 19:24:02 GMT 1
Point taken, Lucy!! I will stay on our side of the camp.
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