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Attack State Red by Chris Hughes and Lt Col. Richard Kemp

Awesome fun to read and really informative. Plus a few grusome piccies which always does well

Originally Posted by Alec_Lomas

Originally Posted by Cuddles

Just finished third in Christian Cameron's "Tyrant" series. Read it in a day - mind you with two big flights.

Onto Alan Furst's Spies of Warsaw now - he is the best spy novelist ever. Ever.

My bold - not familiar with this author, but as they say, I am now. I would have thought that Eric Ambler would be difficult to beat, but of course until I read Mr Furst, I'll now have to keep my opinion under wraps for a wee while yet. :D

Ah, Eric Ambler. I first read 'The Mask of Demetrios' then 'State of Siege' and became hooked. Prose was sometimes a bit colourful and sometimes a bit stilted, but stories were excellent. I also quite liked Erskine Childers.

Originally Posted by old_fat_and_hairy

Originally Posted by Alec_Lomas

Originally Posted by Cuddles

Just finished third in Christian Cameron's "Tyrant" series. Read it in a day - mind you with two big flights.

Onto Alan Furst's Spies of Warsaw now - he is the best spy novelist ever. Ever.

My bold - not familiar with this author, but as they say, I am now. I would have thought that Eric Ambler would be difficult to beat, but of course until I read Mr Furst, I'll now have to keep my opinion under wraps for a wee while yet. :D

Ah, Eric Ambler. I first read 'The Mask of Demetrios' then 'State of Siege' and became hooked. Prose was sometimes a bit colourful and sometimes a bit stilted, but stories were excellent. I also quite liked Erskine Childers.

My bold - if you liked The Riddle of the Sands and haven't read any of John Buchan's novels, then i'd recommend them.

Originally Posted by Gluck_ab

Originally Posted by old_fat_and_hairy

Originally Posted by Alec_Lomas

Originally Posted by Cuddles

Just finished third in Christian Cameron's "Tyrant" series. Read it in a day - mind you with two big flights.

Onto Alan Furst's Spies of Warsaw now - he is the best spy novelist ever. Ever.

My bold - not familiar with this author, but as they say, I am now. I would have thought that Eric Ambler would be difficult to beat, but of course until I read Mr Furst, I'll now have to keep my opinion under wraps for a wee while yet. :D

Ah, Eric Ambler. I first read 'The Mask of Demetrios' then 'State of Siege' and became hooked. Prose was sometimes a bit colourful and sometimes a bit stilted, but stories were excellent. I also quite liked Erskine Childers.

My bold - if you liked The Riddle of the Sands and haven't read any of John Buchan's novels, then i'd recommend them.

Read a couple of John Buchan books, and throughly enjoyed them. But they do read in a very dated way. Well, obvioulsy. I don't know why i said that.

The Truth by Terry Prachett

Just in the middle of "Eyewitness Auschwitz" By Filip Muller. In this book he describes his time in Auschwitz and the life he had to endure as a worker in the gas chambers. He spent some three years burning the dead bodies in the furnaces, and was constantly under the threat of death himself. He details the cruelty and torture meted out to all the prisoners, for the most menial thing. For example, there was a character named Vacek (a Czech criminal) who was the Block clerk (Blockschreiber), and one of the most feared men in the camp. He would drill the prisoners with the order "Caps on caps off", as Muller admits, it doesn't sound much, but after hundreds of times, fatigue would often take over, and this failure to comply meant he would remove you from the ranks and summarily execute you on the spot. The preferred manner of murder, was to beat the victims to death with a club. Muller witnessed this happening to men, women and children, without reason.
If you have a weak stomach, then this is one to avoid. Due to the graphic and grotesque nature described in the book, some people may not believe the tale Filip Muller tells, but all his accounts have been verified and this book renders it as real as it gets...Disturbing doesn't describe the horrors endured by the victims at Auschwitz, not even close!!!!

Grim reading TT. I didn't realise that the sonderkommando groups could last that long. I thought they were replaced every three months or so.

Mind you my information on that was from a film about the uprising in Auschwitz when a sonderkommando group managed to get some gunpowder and overpowered their guards. They locked themselves in one of the crematoriums and fought it out with the guards until out of ammunition. Not surprisingly, all were executed.

If at work I am reading Sisters In Arms by Nicola Tyrer, otherwise the Time Traveller's Wife. The former is such a good book, a bit hard to follow in some places as told from different people's perspectives; but gives a good insight into what some of the nurses faced in the past, both good and bad.