Latest book received

[answer_is_42]

Osprey's The Sudan Campaign and The Conquistdores (both men-at-arms).The latter is a birthday present for my brother, and although titled The Conquistdores, it appears to be concerned with the Spanish, Aztecs, Inca and Maya in equal measure.

[Helen]

The re-edited book is called
Afghan guerilla warfare,

basically 400+ pages of scenarios..

ISBN 0-7603-1322-9

Oh, I've that book being sent too! I suppose this will be a good thing overall in coverage of tactics from both sides.

Helen

[Helen]

No problem Helen,
i skipped it myself, but i have plenty of soviet army pictures in other books:)

Lowtardog showed me this link ages ago
http://www.911investigations.net/document836.html
The bear went over the mountain, free PDF version

There are others on Soviets etc I picked up from Allen Curtis god bless him. Will see if I stil have the links when at home.

As Col says the two bears/mountain books are very good I think the second has a different name in a re-edited format (you know the one Col where it has the muj on the front.

Ideal for scenarios etc.

One which is a bit bias too is the Beartrap written by a Pakistani Intel officer, very much we won the war and the Muj helped perspective not bad and different point of view but not one I would buy again if I knew before hand.

So Helen is this a new project?

Hi Karl,

Thanks for the links. 

I'm looking at this small project for next year alongside the Middle-East (Lebanon 1982). The movie 'Beast' has got me interested plus 'Black Sunday' for small commando type raids etc. Instead of gunships I'm thinking more on the lines of a MI 8 which is stranded with some Soviet soldiers an a rescue party of a small convoy trying to get there in time before the Afghans take them out.

I like the idea of Syrian commandos stalking IDF armour and taking them on with anti-armour weapon systems.

Still working on my Solomons project at the moment which will take me up to next year with painting USMC Raiders and Japanese Imperial Army (IJA) - IJA first! I'll use Johnny Todd's painting guide for the USMC.

Helen

[white knight]

Hellboy 8: Darkness Calls
Hellboy Weird Tales: Volume I
BPRD 7: Garden of Souls
BPRD 8: Killing Ground
BPRD 10: The Warning
Abe Sapian 1: The Drowning

[JollyBob]

Ooooh! OOoh! I didn't know there was a new BPRD out! Thanks WK! 

[white knight]

Hell, I didn't know 7 and 8 were out until I got BPRD 1946 and noticed the number 9 on it. 

[Helen]

Just a few books to keep me going. Afghan Rebels arrived plus the following:

[white knight]

Finally got to read this:



I'd say it's about of the same level as the "fiends of the eastern front" books. If you liked those, then great, otherwise it might feel a bit wanting.

[Mancha]

I just finished The Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick, by Zane.   



I found this an arousing, but kind of strange book.  For one thing, it’s written for an African-American crowd while I am White, so parts of it were difficult to really empathize with.  Additionally, while the sex was good, it seemed strange to me that a lot of sorority sisters who have sex together weren’t having sex together, if ya know what I mean.  Overall, though…
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I also just finished Honor’s Kingdom, by Owen Parry.



This historical detective novel is set in England at the time of the American Civil War.  The main character is an American officer who’s trying to solve a crime.  Interestingly, he’s originally Welsh and served in the British army for a time as well, and his Indian mutiny experiences come back to haunt him.  The author describes himself as “in love with the English language”, but at first I found him perhaps too in love; his prose almost contrived.  Eventually, however, I got into it and found the novel very entertaining.  Aficionados of the VSF genre will enjoy the almost occult suggestions, as an apparent Indian thugee runs amok through London in top hat, cravat and garrote.  Good stuff.

[twrchtrwyth]

@Mancha:You magnificent bastard.

[Orctrader]

Just received Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" and "The Caspak Trilogy" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

(And it is all the fault of the LPL Bonus Round Ten  )

"Lost World" will be a re-read.  "Caspak" I'm pretty sure I have never read it.

[Bako]

I've procured a copy of the Darwin Awards. Some very silly things recorded in there.

[archangel1]

Just received Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" and "The Caspak Trilogy" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

(And it is all the fault of the LPL Bonus Round Ten  )

"Lost World" will be a re-read.  "Caspak" I'm pretty sure I have never read it.

Interesting.  I'd never heard ERB's 'Land That Time Forgot' series called that before.  Read them, as well as several dozen others of Burroughs' works, decades ago.  Still got them, too, although the binding glue is getting decidedly 'loose' these days.  Fun reads, most of them, if a bit racist or condescending by modern standards.

Haven't read 'The Lost World' for even longer, since I was a kid.  Have to pick it up again, one of these days.  Should re-read Kipling's 'Jungle Book', again, too.  Got a really old copy of that laying around - 1899!

[Wirelizard]

Just received Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" and "The Caspak Trilogy" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

(And it is all the fault of the LPL Bonus Round Ten  )

All three of the ERB Caspak are over on Project Gutenberg as free e-texts:
Land that Time Forgot: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/551
People that Time Forgot: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/552
Out of Time's Abyss: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/553
Lots more Edgar Rice Burroughs goodness here: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a48

The Lost World: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/139
Mr. Doyle on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a69

I read the three Caspak books over the weekend - they're very silly things, but a lot of fun.

Got to love copyright expiration & the public domain!

[Helen]