Just wondering what's on the shelf next to the crapper in your place?

I'm working my way through a couple of 'corkers' ..:

"Like Wolves on the Fold - the Defence of Rorke's Drift" by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook [ Royal Regiment of Wales- the ' descendent' regiment ot the 24th who fought there ]. He wrote another good read: How Can Men Die Better.

and the second tome on my peruse list is:

David King's "Vienna 1814"- with the great subtitle of - How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War and Peace at the Congress of Vienna - reads like a novel and, reppearso.. its even got pictures you can colour!

History Of The Second World War by B.H. Liddell Hart. It's not new, but I bought a new one to replace the one thats been in every room ( even under the couch ). The last chapter is about me strategica lly searching for it.

Time has slowed down a bit on my Island and I've been blessed with time to be able to read a few 'good' books.

(including more in the Bible and out
specifically The Book of Enoch From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament )

The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis

1776 by Davis McCullough

War in the Pacific Volumes 1 and 2 so far out of 3 by Retired USMC Brigadier General Jerome T. Hagen

The Liberation of Guam 21 July-10 August 1944
by Harry Gailey

fairly voratious, but I've been spending more time 'off-line' and 'on the beach'.

His Excellency: George Washington.. very good read..

and McCullough's 1776 is excellent

funny how after all the tomes that have been cranked out on a given subject there's still room to discover more info and one more book to put it into perspective..

Prof once told me that history is reshaped each generation so that ' facts' are re-interpreted in the light of present thinking..bending the past to justify/explain the present..

always a new take on things..
still, 1776 is pretty ' objective' as things go...

bump

Oh, and just to be on topic: "IN the name of Rome" By Anthony Goldsworth. Basically a book on some of Rome's more famous generals.

I really enjoyed 1776 and actually have reread sections several times.

You get perspectives from King George down to conscripts and the young and old rebels.

Seems back in the day... some in the House of Lords wanted to repeal the stamp act and other legislation distasteful to the Colonials which perhaps might have put off the revolutionaries and could have at least delayed this so called grand experiment of democaracy.

Yes a very good read.

1776 is the best book I've read lately. I actually threw a Robert Ludlum novel in the trash without reading the whole thing (which is a minor sin in my house). So, yeah "read any good books LATELY"? No, no I haven't.