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[Plynkes]

The Rocketeer is a fun film, Grimm. I think you will like it. It has Jennifer Connelly in it. That ought to be some compensation, even if you don't like the picture.

[zbyshko]

AHHHH Jennifer Connelly!!!  :oops:   if only ...

OK, now my latest reading acquisition to the heap:
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Red-Blot-Voodoo-Master/dp/1932806539/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/103-8126851-8950200

sorry, wasn't able to clip a picture - wife took camera to baby shower.  why shower a baby while still in the womb?  i never get these human customs.  glad it's just her best friends endeavor.  not ours yet!

but i saw on Amazon that many more Shadow paperbacks are forthcoming - pairings galore!!  i thought: "GREAT!!!  i'll never have spare money again!"  why, oh why couldn't my grandfather have collected Pulp Era magazines instead of fishing tackle?  :mrgreen:

yours

ralph

[Poliorketes]

After 3 days of fierce reading I'm through with Anthony Beevors "The Battle for Spain". It's been quite a long while since I last read about the SCW and this book really shows that it has been the laboratory for WW2 not only in military terms, but for atrocities.

It's one of the best works I've read regarding the stalinist way to infiltrate a government.And it shows how stupid many statesmen have been after the german capitulation with the russians. They should have known!.

[xeoran]

I'm reading Keegan's "Face of Battle". Its totally reworking my ideas about war and soldiers. Fantasticly interesting- I'd reccomend it to anyone on here.

Also finished Gary Sheffields "Forgotten Victory" which is an exceptionally interesting revisionist history. Historically it seems pretty on the ball and seems close to what I'd heard about my great-grandfathers experiences in WW1. Only really let down by the fact that it is a small book without enough room to cover everything.

[Poliorketes]

Face of Battle is a must for everyone interested in war.

[xeoran]

Okay, got greedy, put Face of Battle aside and read "Biggles: Pioneer Air Fighter" last night. Rather a good read. Now back to my Keegan...

[Plynkes]

Pioneer Air Fighter? That's the one which is a reprint of the early Great War stories, isn't it? The ones from "Camel Squadron" and "The Camels are coming."

Those are some of my favourite Biggles stories. Biggles was always at his best in the Great War.

[xeoran]

Pioneer Air Fighter? That's the one which is a reprint of the early Great War stories, isn't it? The ones from "Camel Squadron" and "The Camels are coming."

Those are some of my favourite Biggles stories. Biggles was always at his best in the Great War.

Yup, they span from the beginning of the Great War to the End where he gets shot down and captured on the Armistace day. Great stuff: lots of fellas in the sun, cocky youngsters, spies, arrogant yanks and wholesale destruction of flowers(!).

Mind you, the Biggles where he fights the Condor Legion in the SCW is rather natty and has a lovely cover. I think I'll read "Learns to Fly" and "In France" next.

[Plynkes]

I like "Learns to Fly." It was the first one I read. I like it as he starts off in a two-seater F.E. pusher prop job. I love pusher-props.

I have "in France" but haven't read it yet.

"Flies East" is another good one. It's a novel, rather than short stories. An espionage tale set  on the Palestine front, with improbable "Prisoner of Zenda"-style identity switches, run-ins with Arab irregulars, the good old Australian Light Horse are seen briefly, and yet bizarrely there is not a single mention of a Turk. All the oppostion in it are Germans!

[xeoran]

Oooh, I'll have to read that one too. At the mo' I have:

Secret Mission
In the South Seas
The Noble Lord
Dark Intruder
The Rescue Flight
Flies South
Defies the Swastika (my favorite title)
In Spain
Flies East
Sorts it Out
In the Jungle
In Australia
Foreign Legionarie
Defends the Desert
of the Camel Squadron
Cruise of the Condor
and the Black Peril
in the Orient

That should keep me busy for a bit!

[Malamute]

Oooh, I'll have to read that one too. At the mo' I have:

Secret Mission
In the South Seas
The Noble Lord
Dark Intruder
The Rescue Flight
Flies South
Defies the Swastika (my favorite title)
In Spain
Flies East
Sorts it Out
In the Jungle
In Australia
Foreign Legionarie
Defends the Desert
of the Camel Squadron
Cruise of the Condor
and the Black Peril
in the Orient

That should keep me busy for a bit!

What about Biggles Flies undone?
Sorry, I couldnt resist it, its one from my school days ::

[Plynkes]

I've posted this link before, but in case you haven't seen it, Xeoran, I'll post it again:

http://www.biggles.info/

If you click on each book, many of them show the interior illustrations, which are missing in the modern editions.

[Hammers]

Oooh, I'll have to read that one too. At the mo' I have:

Secret Mission
In the South Seas
The Noble Lord
Dark Intruder
The Rescue Flight
Flies South
Defies the Swastika (my favorite title)
In Spain
Flies East
Sorts it Out
In the Jungle
In Australia
Foreign Legionarie
Defends the Desert
of the Camel Squadron
Cruise of the Condor
and the Black Peril
in the Orient

That should keep me busy for a bit!

What about Biggles Flies undone?
Sorry, I couldnt resist it, its one from my school days ::

And there I was, content with the modest humor of "Biggles Sorts It Out"...

[xeoran]

I've posted this link before, but in case you haven't seen it, Xeoran, I'll post it again:

http://www.biggles.info/

If you click on each book, many of them show the interior illustrations, which are missing in the modern editions.

Seen it- on your blog actually. Its great. :love:

Of course when it comes to media with those sorts of titles nothing beats Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (you need to have seen the film to understand this).

[Ironworker]

Just picked up "War in the Air 1914-1945" Williamson Murray

Also picked up both "The Rocketeer" and "The Phantom" on DVD.