My Library just grew again 2013

[Rheged]

Agree with Brian's recommendation

My younger son (the military history graduate) reckons it's one of the best.

[Kerrillc]

From Amazon the following;

Whirlwind: Westland's Enigmatic Fighter by Niall Corduroy

Hitler's Forgotten Secret Weapon: The Amazing Story of the Heinkel He113 "Super Fighter" in the Battle of Britain by Leonard James

Handley Page - The First 40 Years; A Paperback "Advertorial" Book by Handley Page Limited. It was put together by the PR department of Handley Page while it was still in existence.

On-target Profile: No. 2: RAF & Commonwealth Mustang's by Jon Freeman. This last popped up on Facebook as a recommendation from Terry (radish) Campion, which I have found useful.

Kerrill

[Mossie]

The Devil's Chariots: The Origins and Secret Battles of Tanks in the First World War, by John Glanfield

Cheers for the recommendation guys.   Read the first few chapters and it's a very good read so far.

[Nick]

Just finished reading SOE's Balls of Steel  and it's a cracking read.
All about the theft of Swedish steel, machinery and enough ball bearings for 800 Lancaster bombers in 2 daring operations. Trouble was the goods (fully paid for) were on Norwegian ships trapped in Swedish ports. So we stole them!

[Army of One]

Finally......! Many years ago I purchased a book which was one of four in a series. The series is called 'Aggressors'. The one I got originally was vol 1 Tankbuster v combat vehicle. For over 20yrs I wanted the other 3 but prices always seemed ridiculous. Anyhoo I found all three on ebay recently and now have vol 3 at home Interceptor v heavy bomber and was got for £3.73 free p+p. On the way are vol 2 Carrier power v fighting ship for just over £8 free p+p and vol 4 Patrol aircraft v submarine for just over £7 with free p+p. Well chuffed, the books are illustrated by Rikyu Watanabe are are awesome.....he is very skilled.

[McColm]

Picked up a copy of "The illustrated encyclopedia of aircraft part 134". Issued in 1984 by Orbis Publishing Ltd.
The main topic is the Boeing C-97 and Stratocruiser .Plenty of coloured photos and graphics with a cutaway drawing of the Boeing model 377.Covering the C-97 variants .There is a rare photo of the XC -97 prototype with the B&39 wings ,engines and short tail .Another interesting feature is the windows .Square for the military ,round and then changing to rectangular .

[The Wooksta!]

Richard Dolan - UFOs and the National Security State 1945-1973

[Steel Penguin]

the FASA games version of the Dr Who RPG.  been after a read of it for years so when I found it 2nd hand today, I grabbed it.

[Gondor]

From ebay

The Hawker Typhoon including the Hawker Tornado  part of the Vanguard series of book on Airframe & Miniatures

Gondor

[Howard of Effingham]

from waterstones....

eric schlosser 'command and control'

as it says on the flap..... 'a groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism and
technological breakthroughs, command and control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the
nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?'

its been an eye-opening read!!!!

[Ifor]

Could you elaborate on the glitches in the Devils Chariots? I thought the book was excellent. I've read the New Excalibur and have yet to read The Band of Brigands and The Ironclads of Cambrai.

[McColm]

Two copies of Profile Publications,printed in 1966. Each has 16 pages with black and white photos with coloured profiles .They give an in-depth history from prototype to the last model.
The Lockheed Constellation has six various types of windshield and nose configurations .Military and airliner & combie .Who flew what and specification s


The De  Havilland Comet series 1-4
The same format mentioning the RAF and R
C.A. F.
Interesting reading  ideal for whiffing .

[rickshaw]

Could you elaborate on the glitches in the Devils Chariots? I thought the book was excellent. I've read the New Excalibur and have yet to read The Band of Brigands and The Ironclads of Cambrai.

I'd have to go back and reread it.  They were, at the time, obvious but minor mistakes about people IIRC.  As I said, he gets the basic gist right and you come away with the usual impression that the British were their own worst enemy at times.  Tank development was pretty ramshackle but I suspect typical of any new technology where people were feeling their way as they tried to figure out what worked and what didn't.  I often have difficulties with historians apply perfect hindsight to a subject likes this and "Devil's Chariots" comes away better than most IMO.

The matter of tank development makes an interesting contrast actually with Paddy Griffin's "Battle Tactics of the Western Front: British Army's Art of Attack, 1916-18" where you come away with the reverse impression - once they got organised, the British Army did rather better than they were always portrayed as doing.   Rather like Brown's "British Logistics of the Western Front" (fascinating book BTW and I simply cannot recommend it enough, it's well written and brings an otherwise rather dry subject alive).

[NARSES2]

The matter of tank development makes an interesting contrast actually with Paddy Griffin's "Battle Tactics of the Western Front: British Army's Art of Attack, 1916-18" where you come away with the reverse impression - once they got organised, the British Army did rather better than they were always portrayed as doing.   Rather like Brown's "British Logistics of the Western Front" (fascinating book BTW and I simply cannot recommend it enough, it's well written and brings an otherwise rather dry subject alive).

Agree with you on those two books, and my reading of WWI would make me agree with Griffiith's view

[Captain Canada]

Father in Law arrived safe and sound. With a copy of Winchman-A life on the wire. The life story of Chris Murray, 22 years as a SARtech and other exploits in HMS ! Can't wait to read it !