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**Tiffy_71** · 17-06-2005, 02:10

I doubt if the title is spelt the way you spell it (possesive apostrophe) - you dumb troll

**lawstudent** · 14-07-2005, 00:57

i am reading Inside the British Army by anthony beevor

Synopsis
The anatomy of an institution and a study of a tribal society unique to Britain. From Rhine Army headquarters in Germany to underground bunkers in South Armagh, the author talks with the Army's Generals, officers, NCOs and soldiers. The book includes recent developments and events in the Gulf. this was published in 1991 but is a excellant book to read

really intresting book

**Crab_Sig** · 14-07-2005, 01:54

Just finished - Hell Riders, The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade by Terry Brighton.

Back Cover...

One bullet struck me on the forehead, another passed through the top of my shoulder. While struggling out from under my dead horse a Cossack standing over me stabbed me with his lance once in the neck near the jugular, again above the collar bone, several times in the back, and once under the short rib; and when, having regained my feet, I was trying to draw my sword, he sent his lance through the palm of my hand. I believe he would have succeeded in killing me, clumsy as he was, if I had not blinded him for the moment with a handful of sand.

Private James Wightman, 17 Lancers.

They made them tough in those days!

A great read!!

**LostGirlinWales** · 14-07-2005, 02:09

I'm reading a book by David Saks called The Alphabet, funnily enough it is about the history of the alphabet ... Yes, Yes I know I am a sad pamphlet head!

**Rifle-Green-Sex-Machine** · 14-07-2005, 18:20

307 - I've just finished that bit in "Operation Certain Death" about the CB-MRE-B (Mk 1 & 2) and pissed myself laughing as well :D

**slick** · 16-07-2005, 22:23

Just finished Bolivian Diary by Che Guevara, very strange tale, like reading about a well armed bunch of boy scouts and their change in fortune is staggering, for months they`re ambushing Bolivian patrols with a fair amount of success and almost overnight chopped to pieces in a valley, slice of monkey for supper anyone? :o

**Mr Happy** · 20-07-2005, 05:37

Just finished another Matt Scudder mystery. Matt is an ex cop from NYC and ex alchoholic who investigates cases at leisure due to a casual outlook to life.

The author (name slips) has been publishing Matt Scudder mysteries since the 60's and reading them the character has been ageing (we're getting to Ms Marple territory now) and the city has been changing etc (the books include references to real life e.g. Vietnam, Reagan, Challenger depending on which one you are reading and where it sits in the series) so there is a constant history tag in the book (at least if you are reading them like I have been in hindsight).

Recommended if you like detective novels.

Mr H

**RP578** · 20-07-2005, 09:03

"The Year Of Living Dangerously" by Christopher J Koch. I loved the film and the book delves into the intracacies of the situation in Indonesion in greater depth.

**Fraulein** · 20-07-2005, 09:24

Just re-read again: Remarque's "Im Westen Nichts Neues " (All Quiet on the Western Front) Still trying to hunt down the original film that I saw once on telly, made in the 1920s or early 30s.

**Mr Happy** · 20-07-2005, 13:22

Originally Posted by Fraulein

Just re-read again: Remarque's "Im Westen Nichts Neues " (All Quiet on the Western Front) Still trying to hunt down the original film that I saw once on telly, made in the 1920s or early 30s.

Amazon matey: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...979727-8561443