My library just grew again 2018

[zenrat]

I finally got my copy of Mushi's book Hawking Radiation.
I think Amazon sent it from the UK by pack mule.
It's jumped the queue and is next tin line to be read after I finish the 1948 (second) edition of Spitfire Parade (Capt W.E.Johns) i am currently reading.

[Rheged]

Avro  Aircraft  from the Britain in Old Photographs series. Cheap second hand copy. Includes a picture of the 1919  Avro10 hp motor car.

[reddfoxx]

Master of the Sky and Sea: The Ted Wells Story.  Won a copy from the author.  It's the biography of the designer of the Staggerwing and Bonanza.

[Gondor]

Received today

The Commong of the Comet - The Rise and Fall of the Paddle Steamer by Nick Robins

I got this out of "The Naval & Military Press Ltd" Easter sale which is still on for £2.99 

Gondor

[NARSES2]

Dropping stuff off in one of the local charity shops this morning (There are 6 in the Triangle !) and noticed something on the book shelf

So for £2 I picked up a perfect copy of "British Liberation Army 1944-1945" by Charles Whiting.

Whilst sitting in Costa's and brousing through it two of the photo's caught my eye and both were of women.

Firstly was a shot of a large group of nurses walking off a LST onto the beach Normandy, complete with tin hats and being watched by a large group of "goggle eyed" troops.

The second was of three ATS "girls" in the snow, somewhere in N W Europe smiling for the camera, but the real surprise was that one of them was carrying a Sten gun ?

Now mum was in the ATS (AA gunner) but I never realised she'd had small arms training. She never spoke about. Thinking about it farther she may have been more proficient with a Sten than dad was  He always said how limited his small arms training in the Navy was. and that mostly you drilled with a SMLE and only got to fire it once or twice. Mind you he did get to fire 20mm and 40mm AAA a lot !

[perttime]

...
Now mum was in the ATS (AA gunner) but I never realised she'd had small arms training. She never spoke about. Thinking about it farther she may have been more proficient with a Sten than dad was  He always said how limited his small arms training in the Navy was. and that mostly you drilled with a SMLE and only got to fire it once or twice. Mind you he did get to fire 20mm and 40mm AAA a lot !

I suppose the chances of ending up facing a "hostile" with some fight left in him is higher on the ground than at sea.

[PR19_Kit]

Firstly was a shot of a large group of nurses walking off a LST onto the beach Normandy, complete with tin hats and being watched by a large group of "goggle eyed" troops.

I've seen that pic elsewhere too, and the troops look totally gob-smacked, but it was only the 2nd (or maybe 3rd) day of the invasion apparently! 

[NARSES2]

Firstly was a shot of a large group of nurses walking off a LST onto the beach Normandy, complete with tin hats and being watched by a large group of "goggle eyed" troops.

I've seen that pic elsewhere too, and the troops look totally gob-smacked, but it was only the 2nd (or maybe 3rd) day of the invasion apparently! 

Caption for this one is July 1944.

[Hobbes]

Temporarily seconded to my library :

Sled driver - flying the world's fastest jet (by Brian Shul, an SR-71 pilot)
Driving ambition - the inside story of the McLaren F1 (by Doug Nye)

[NARSES2]

Picked up this morning.

"The Last Battle - Endgame on the Western Front, 1918" by Peter Hart who is oral historian at the IWM.

Concentrates on the final 8 weeks of WWI on the Western Front. One of about 5 books that I want to get over the next few months on this final phase of the War. Until now most histories of WWI seem to stop with the end of the German 1918 offensives. The final push from Amiens on being treated as an afterthought. Just glad this very important part of WWI is now getting the attention it deserves.

[Weaver]

Picked up on Friday:

12 Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson

It's subtitled 'an antidote to chaos' - I could do with less chaos....

[zenrat]

Picked up on Friday:

12 Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson

It's subtitled 'an antidote to chaos' - I could do with less chaos....

Not possible mate.  Chaos, like entropy only ever remains constant or increases.

[Weaver]

Picked up on Friday:

12 Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson

It's subtitled 'an antidote to chaos' - I could do with less chaos....

Not possible mate.  Chaos, like entropy only ever remains constant or increases.

True, but you can move it around and hasten or delay it. If some of the chaos around me would go somewhere else or wait until after I'm dead, that'd be good.

[Nick]

Tonight I shall start re-reading The Right Stuff following the sad news that the author, Tom Wolfe, has passed away.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44130788

[zenrat]

Tonight I shall start re-reading The Right Stuff following the sad news that the author, Tom Wolfe, has passed away.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44130788

I had the same thought regarding The Electric Koolaid Acid Test.