My library just grew again 2017

[NARSES2]

Has that bloke up the sharp end got a harpoon or a boathook?.....and if it's a harpoon, is this their latest secret weapon for dealing with submarines?

My thoughts exactly. Either that or his on the lookout for fish that have swam across the 38th....traitors deserve to suffer on the BBQ 

[The Wooksta!]

Curiously, two of my latest acquisitions have concerned the DPRK!

Defiant Failed State
Inside North Korea - John Sweeney

Plus:

The Nazi Hunters - Damien Lewis
Operation Paperclip - Annie Jacobsen

[kitbasher]

Has that bloke up the sharp end got a harpoon or a boathook?.....and if it's a harpoon, is this their latest secret weapon for dealing with submarines?

My thoughts exactly. Either that or his on the lookout for fish that have swam across the 38th....traitors deserve to suffer on the BBQ 

Something lost in translation when North Korea decided to copy the Harpoon missile?

[seadude]

Picked up the following at my local monthly model club meeting at a hobby store today:
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,43228.0.html

[Spey_Phantom]

one new addition:

-1917-2017: 100 years of Wevelghem Airport.

[Gondor]

Just received today from ebay

Airframe & Miniature No.9 The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil

Very interesting projected developments inside the book too including a few that Kit would really like

Gondor

[reddfoxx]

Having read and loved A Sailor of Austria by John Biggins last year, I got the rest of the series and started the second book (actually a prequel.)

The Emperor's Coloured Coat
The Two-Headed Eagle
Tomorrow the World

[The Wooksta!]

Currently awaiting this lot from ebay:

Saddam's Bombmaker - The Terrifying Inside Story of Iraq - Jeff Stein

Saddam's Secrets - Tim Trevan

Republic of Fear: Politics of Modern Iraq - Kanan Makiya

Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwaters UFO encounter - Peter Robbins and Larry Warren

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell

[Thorvic]

Picked up cheap off eBay the first edition of John Jordan's Soviet Warships

Interesting as from the early 80s when the new hardware started to appear like Kirov, Sovremenny and Udaloy classes at the height of the cold war. I have the later 90s revised 2n edition which is more comprehensive covers the New carriers and frigate but also benefits from the end of the cold war. This first edition has that familiar cold war feel to it with comparisons of US types that drove the Cold War - should be a fun read although I might be tempted to pick up some Combrig resin kits 

[The Wooksta!]

Currently awaiting this lot from ebay:
Politics and the English Language - George Orwell

It's arrived and is very.... thin!  i thought it was a letter before I opened the package. 

Not read it yet but there's a review by Orwell of Hitler's Mein Kampf.  Be interesting to see what one of England's greatest writers has to say of the writings of one of history's greatest genocidal psychopaths.

I was "gifted" a copy of "Mein Kampf" a few years back and from what I've read  it looks to be the most turgid pile of utter shi'te that I've ever had the misfortune to read.

[NARSES2]

I was "gifted" a copy of "Mein Kampf" a few years back and from what I've read  it looks to be the most turgid pile of utter shi'te that I've ever had the misfortune to read.

Tried to read it 40 odd years ago to try and understand things a little better. Gave up after 50 or so pages and gave it away. It will be interesting to see if the current version published in Germany with notations/comments by noted historian's is translated into English.

[Rheged]

I had to read parts of Mein Kampf  as a unit in my history degree.  It was turgid rubbish then, and trying again 40-odd years later I find that it's still rubbish now.   Don't waste time on it, read "1066 and all that" instead;   it was required, compulsory  reading on my history course too!!

[reddfoxx]

Picked up Squadron's P-40 Warhawk In Action #205 from my local hobby shop.  I have an old version, but I think this is entirely new, not just an update.

[jcf]

368 pages, hundreds of pics, reproduces all of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret's
original drawings but also places the project in the context of the time by including
Corbu's own fascination with vehicles and his multiple Voisins, vehicles from other
designers (the Bug, 2CV etc.) a section on other architects who designed cars etc., etc.

Very good.

[Gondor]

Received in the post today an eBay win

P2V Neptune in Action which I will use to help me understand with to do with the Hasegawa kit I have in the stash which is destined to become an RAF machine.

Gondor