#HistBookChat - not a bad account of the battle, presented in a no-nonsense, easy to digest manner. A decent introduction to the subject.

#HistBookChat offering with a difference. The author was an experienced yachtsman and it shows in the way the book is written. As a student at Falmouth Technical College in 1983, one of my lecturers was the coxswain of the Falmouth lifeboat who took part in the rescue operations.

Bonus #HistBookChat offerings for this week, a selection featuring both World Wars and areas, Western Front, Eastern and Pacific Theatre. Landers War was edited and introduced by my uncle who knew the late Richard Holmes well enough to get him to write the book's forward.

#HistBookChat offering for this week. This one got to the top of the TBR pile and I really wanted to like it. For me at least, I thought it a bit of a Curate's Egg; good in parts.

#HistBookChat - a visit to Daisy Hill Books this morning landed these two. I'm glad to have found my own copy of Field Marshall in the Family.

#HistBookChat thoughts....I enjoy reading the books of Douglas Reeman but whenever I do, I'm also reminded of a passage from one of my other favourites, Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome. What could possibly be the link between two such disparate authors? Let me enlighten you...1/3

The #HistBookChat page is to blame for today's delivery as I saw it advertised there just the other day. It looks like a very good read so it shouldn't stay on the TBR pile for too long....

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#HistBookChat for the moment is Milner's Second Front. It's a bit of a slog at first and I admit to putting it down more than once but I would urge anyone wanting a complete picture of Anglo-American thinking from the Great War to the Normandy Campaign and beyond to persevere, your effort 1/3....

A bonus #HistBookChat offering today. HMS Montague was a Duncan Class pre-Dreadnaught which ran aground off the Island of Lundy in May 1906. She was found to be more damaged than originally thought so she was salvaged where she lay. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Mon...

Looking for the books mentioned in my previous post I came across this book by René J Francillon, which I reckon stands head and shoulders above many general histories of the Air War in Vietnam. If you're interested in the subject then this is a worthy introduction to it. #HistBookChat

#HistBookChat for this week, U-boats and the Battle of the Atlantic are the subjects of these offerings, a truly fascinating subject.

Tip top book. #histbookchat

#HistBookChat The Andrew Williams book on the Battle of the Atlantic is a decent one volume work but like so many of its type, the last 12-18 months of the campaign are skimmed over. Endgame is a good attempt at addressing that gap in the historiography and is well worth reading.

#HistBookChat choices this week, a return to the Home Front and a copy of my own of a book I referenced for my Masters. Apropos of love in a time of war, I discovered many years ago that I'm part American as my Nan was left, literally, holding the baby following a wartime encounter.

A bit of a change from the usual for this week's #HistBookChat - a good read and a reminder that war doesn't just affect we humans and that animals frequently display more more humanity than we do.

#HistBookChat choices for this week. The book on proposed airborne ops I particularly interesting, the airborne were clearly an asset burning a hole in the Allies pocket. Caen Controversy speaks for itself but for me, the controversy is more created than actual.

#HistBookChat for this week - I'm planning a trip to Normandy to research another book. Juno Beach will feature if it ever gets beyond the planning stage.

This is what fascism looks like as enforced by those with small brains and little willies. Too much over-compensating , me thinks.

Just checking in on all those folks who just couldn’t vote for Kamala because of their ideals. How’s that working out?

#HistBookChat offerings for this Christmas day. Apollo is a brilliant book, the images are staggeringly, eye-catchingly beautiful. The Wind In the Willows has been a favourite since childhood and I offer no apologies for continuing to regularly join Ratty, Mole, Toad and Badger on their adventures.

A #HistBookChat of a different sort this evening, festively spooky and very well written....

#HistBookChat offering for this week is this from Alun Chalfont. Not exactly laudatory (no harm in that) to it's subject but I think of all the post war military historians of that period, he grasped the ultimate intention of Montgomery's Normandy strategy and the dilemma it put the Germans in.

Done! I have to finish this up first though!

Possibly the best book written about British armour in Normandy, if you haven't read it I strongly recommend you do so.

#histbookchat I decided to make a short trailer for my forthcoming book to give a little flavour of what to expect.

#HistBookChat I'm thinking of writing something starting near the end of Falaise and the beginning of Market Garden. The Killing Ground is an old book but one which is still worth reading. One Christmas is a good introduction to the political events which forged The Grand Alliance.

#HistBookChat for the weekend is this by Marc Milner. Has anyone read it, is it worthy of being bumped up to the top of the TBR pile?

Trumpington is a thing (not a man) who it can truly be said knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I came across this photo the other day. It's the whiteboard I used to list the points I wanted to work into the conclusion of my book which was not just a repeat of my Masters. Writing for an academic audience is quite different to writing for a more general leadership and overall, I enjoyed it.

#HistBookChat for this week is this one, brought back from Toronto this week by my son who paid a visit to that city to watch the Leafs getting beaten twice and winning twice. I'm really looking forward to reading this, I'm looking for some inspiration for my next work.

#HistBookChat for this week. One is the follow-up to last week's offering but this time the onus leans more towards unknown shipwrecks (the clue is in the name!) whilst the other centres around the human face of armoured warfare in NW Europe. It's not the best account you'll read but still good.

Late as usual (or early) for #HistBookChat and a break with the usual. First published in 1970, many of the wrecks listed were listed as 'Unknown' but over the years, many have been identified as seabed obstructions (rocks and the like) but many more are still just that, unknown.

#HistBookChat second offering of the week and one which I've bumped up to the top of the TBR pile

Late again with my #HistBookChat offering. The last two chapters in which the old soldiers reflected on their experiences left me especially moved in a way I haven't felt for a while. Not every soldier was scarred by their experiences but all were marked by it in some way.

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One of my favourite single volume histories of the 1914-1918 war at sea #HistBookChat

Three offerings for this week's #HistBookChat - The Hastings book is probably the last one he's done of late worth the reading (although a friend says his work on Operation Pedestal is good). November 1942 I'd categorise as a good book if bought second hand but the very best of the 3 is HMAS Sydney.

An Australian soldier poses with his mule on a mountain pass en route to a Jungle Training Camp, somewhere in Australia c.1942 #MuleMonday 📷 National Archives of Australia, 8303269

Sorting through some books and found this which I can thoroughly recommend...#HistBookChat The author actually visited DBP a number of times and was played by Donald Pleasence in Pierre Schoendoerffer's film of the same name (which I also recommend).

By way of a #HistBookChat bonus, I offer this as proof that I do read books that aren't military related. I can't recommend this volume highly enough, it really puts the reader in the thick of events.

#HistBookChat offering 2/2 this week are these three stalwarts...

I've been poorly of late so have missed #HistBookChat offerings for the last couple of weeks so, to make up for it I offer two selections....1/2

I was sorting through a pile of books when I came across this magazine from 1988, containing my first paid for article. 1988! #OldGit Still, it was a subject I returned to years later and hopefully will again. #HistBookChat #DienBienPhu #FrenchIndochina

#HistBookChat offerings for this week..... I've not read Keegan's The Price of Admiralty yet, but his Six Armies in Normandy is a classic study of the campaign. One book on the subject I have no hesitation in recommending (apart from my own - obviously!) is After D-Day by James J Carafano.

Irony isn't Trumpington, the FTOTUS (First Traitor Of The United States) thing is it? To use an AI image of him in military uniform is one thing but an image based on a Vietnam War theme? C'mon Capt. Bone-Spur, didn't your family pay a doctor to say you weren't fit to serve there? Shameless.

Late as usual with the week's offering for #HistBookChat and a break from the usual WW2 / Normandy themes.