My library just grew again 2015...

[Gondor]

I picked up an ebay win from my local Argus Argos today

1 x Scale Aircraft Modelling Volume 12 Number 9 June 1990. My list of SAM magazines says that I already have this issue but I have been unable to find it. Considering that the main aircraft in this particular edition is the Avro Shackleton and I recently received two from Hannants, I thought I better buy another copy.

Gondor

[Mossie]

Two books, both Osprey New Vanguard volumes about WWI tanks:

German Panzers 1914-18 by Steven J. Zaloga
British Mark I Tank 1916 by David Fletcher

[The Wooksta!]

The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens.

Didn't realise quite how much blood was on Kissinger's hands until now. Or how many wars he'd interfered in.

[Ifor]

Wooksta,
Is it worth buying? I've been meaning to buy the Nixon and Kissinger book.

[The Wooksta!]

I haven't got far through it, mainly the intro and foreword.  It's worth listening to Hitchens on youtube about it.  I honestly wish that I discovered him sooner.

[McColm]

Picked a copy of Aeroplane Illustrated Aviation Archive- German marine & transport aircraft of world war 2.
Photos and cutaway drawings of popular and less well known flying boats, float planes, glider s and odd transport aircraft
A lot of useful information.
Definitely a theme build for the next few years. I think most of the aircraft mentioned have model kits in 1/72 scale or could be Whiffed.

[Thorvic]

Just got a copy of "The British Carrier Strike Force since 1945" by David Hobbs this is more an history to complement his earlier more technical book on the Carriers them selves. Of course it has a full chapter on the CVA-01 and covers right upto the building of the QECs, only dour note is the photo's are all black and white and not all that brilliant but this book is for reading rather than browsing.

[Librarian]

About to board a multi-hour flight around 1976/7 I was given a compilation of sci-fi stories to read. Getting off the plane I left the book behind. Loved the stories, one in particular has stuck in my head all these years, especially the ending..."the ruins are not ours, they are yours". Mentioned this today to a sci-fi guru at Waterstones and he knew it immediately. "Protected Species" by H B Fyfe. Amazoned it and there was the exact copy of the paperback, "Galactic Empires" ed. Aldiss. I can finally die happy .

[PR19_Kit]

Mentioned this today to a sci-fi guru at Waterstones and he knew it immediately.

Don't you just LOVE it when something like that happens? 

[NARSES2]

People who work in bookshops do tend to love their work and are incredibly knowledgeable. It's why unless the price differential is to silly to ignore I will buy from a bookshop rather than online

[McColm]

Just ordered " Beyond the Horizon, History of AEW & C aircraft.
After reading a few reviews it would fit in with my builds. An interesting story of a Lockheed Constellation trying to land on a aircraft carrier!
Would make a great Whiff.
I'll give more details when the book arrives.

Arrived this morning, good photos and artwork. Most of the major types covered so lots of "real world" and whiffs to fill in the gaps.

[Hobbes]

From Telford:
X-planes of Europe II
Hawker P.1103 and P.1121: Camm's last fighter projects

found in a bookshop on my way there:
Randall Munroe: What-if: serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions (an adjunct to his website, http://what-if.xkcd.com/)

Waiting for me when I got home:
VC-10: the story of a classic jet airliner
Air International - KC-135

[jcf]

Got three copies of this recently but forgot to post about it, done by an artist friend out here in Washington State:

http://www.christopher-doll.com/product/coloring-space-1-signed-by-christopher-doll/

[Steel Penguin]

cool beans!
looks like a good few hours of fun there

[NARSES2]

At Telford - American Secret Projects : Fighters, Bombers and Attack Aircraft 1937 - 1945