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[Blodwin]

Found in Oxfam bookshop in Reading today – Setting the East Ablaze, The Great Game and On Secret Service East of Constantinople – by Peter Hopkirk. £2.49 each.

Now all I need is the time to read them. 

Blodwin

[Poiter50]

You lucky bastard!!   

Found in Oxfam bookshop in Reading today – Setting the East Ablaze, The Great Game and On Secret Service East of Constantinople – by Peter Hopkirk. £2.49 each.

Now all I need is the time to read them. 

Blodwin

[answer_is_42]

Finally bought a copy of War on the Nile By Michael Barthorp (1986). Lots of good pictures. Text not so good, and a general assumption throughout that the British Empire was a 'good thing' which begins to jar after a while.

Also just finished Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes (1995), which is fantastic and everyone should have a copy of (though it is a little depressing, to say the least!).

[Plynkes]

Seeing as my avatar comes from it, I figured it was time I actually read this...



Don't think it has ever been published in English, but I saw this Italian edition quite cheap. I don't speak Italian, but I regard that as more of a challenge than a setback. And hell, it's still got all the Hugo Pratt art. That isn't in Italian.

[Sardoo]

Just started reading "The Places in Between" by Rory Stewart. It tells the story of his solo walk across Afghanistan just after 9:11. So far pretty good.

[Cory]

Grabbed a book at the book store based only on the cover. Devil Dog, a bio of General Smedley Butler. This is part of something called Pulp Histories - serious history books written in a more pulp style with pulp inspired art. The books a bit biased, but rather a fun read,

[Wirelizard]

Grabbed a book at the book store based only on the cover. Devil Dog, a bio of General Smedley Butler. This is part of something called Pulp Histories - serious history books written in a more pulp style with pulp inspired art. The books a bit biased, but rather a fun read,

Interested to know what you think of it. Smedly Butler isn't someone I've read a lot about, but what I have is interesting - gung-ho US Marine officer who retired and became a very vocal internationalist/pacifist/anti-corporate speaker I keep meaning to look up more about him.

[Ramirez Noname]

A bit of an oddity, but I have been looking out for it for a while -

"The Military Survey of Gloucestershire 1522" edited by R W Hoyle, originally published in the Gloucestershire Record Series.

No illustrations, but listings of each "Hundred's" military obligation to the king, including the status of the men to be called upon and the types of arms and armour available within the "Hundred".

For a description of a Hundred - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_(county_subdivision) RMZ

[HerbyF]

Found at Half Price Books here, The Zombie Autopsies (Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse) by Steven c. Schlozman, MD.

[elysium64]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Travellers-Guide-Elizabethan-England/dp/1847921140/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1361928326&sr=8-3
An excellent book so far, giving plenty of atmosphere and ideas for my latest project.

[twrchtrwyth]

The Great Game, and I thought pigs would fly before I got hold of it. 

[twrchtrwyth]

 

[former user]

Trust flying pigs - they always bring home the bacon 

or the books 

[joroas]

I think Hamirates has some.....

[former user]

Hamirates is almost dangerous
the PC version would be Pastramirates