My library just grew again 2019

[Nick]

I am currently reading Gerard Fiennes - I Tried To Run a Railway
Incredible, fascinating, baffling, very revealing. No wonder he got the sack after writing that!

It does show very well the long lost days of old school railways and how all the changes came in - diesels and containers etc.
He has a rather terse writing style. I get the feeling the reader is expected to know all the jargon and people and places without being told. The name William Hoole comes up a few times and I had to double check that he meant Driver Bill Hoole who held the steam speed record at 113mph.

[Gondor]

Was early for a lunch date yesterday so went into Waterstones. Inevitably walked out with a book.

Hungary - A short History by Norman Stone

Before or after you had eaten?

Gondor

[Captain Canada]

Thanks to whomever put me on to this ? Saw the post and went online looking straight away. Can't wait to peruse it !

[Rick Lowe]

From a deceased Friend's collection:
A biography of Eric Morecambe: "You'll miss me when I'm gone." by his Son.

An early Christmas present for Mum - but I may have to borrow it for 'Quality Control' purposes...

[zenrat]

Australia's Vietnam: Myth vs History by Mark Dapin.
Just finished this. The blurb on Readings website can put it better than I can.

In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myth. From army claims that every national serviceman was a volunteer; and the level of atrocities committed by Australian troops; to the belief there were no welcome home parades until the late 1980s and returned soldiers were met by angry protesters.
Australia's Vietnam is a major contribution to the understanding of Australia's experience of the war and will change the way we think about memory and military history.

While the last sentence maybe over-eggs it a bit I did find it fascinating.

[Hobbes]

Fokker verkeersvliegtuigen (an overview of Fokker civil projects), to be used as background with the Fokker unbuilt projects materials I recently bought
To orbit and back again - how the Space Shuttle flew in space

[Hobbes]

preordered Blue Streak: Britain's Medium Range Ballistic Missile (by John Boyes)
(https://www.fonthill.media/products/blue-streak-britain-s-medium-range-ballistic-missile)

[scooter]

From the used book bin in the USS New Jersey's gift shop yesterday: Admirals in Collision; about the ramming and sinking of HMS Victoria off Syrian Tripoli by HMS [i[Camperdown[/] during maneuvers.

[NARSES2]

From the used book bin in the USS New Jersey's gift shop yesterday: Admirals in Collision; about the ramming and sinking of HMS Victoria off Syrian Tripoli by HMS [i[Camperdown[/] during maneuvers.

Coincidence or what ? BBC4 has just had a 4 parter on the history of the RN and the final episode during the week covered that very incident, the subsequent enquiry/courts martial and the consequences it had on the RN's run up to WWI.

[Rheged]

I've just been given (free) a copy of  THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF MILITARY MACHINES.  It carries a sticker from The Works bookshop WAS £15, NOW £4.    Avoid it!! It's not worth what I paid for it and I got it for nothing.   It will go to a charity shop next week.

[PR19_Kit]

It's not worth what I paid for it and I got it for nothing.

[Gondor]

Purchased at Perth today,

On Target Profiles6  North American, Candair & Commonwealth F-86 Sabre in RAF, RCAF, RAAF,SAAF, Pakisrani and Malayaian Service

Valiant Airframe Album 15  The Gloster/A.W. Meteor

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Another bookazine from the Aviation Archive series, 'X-planes of the US', and very good it looks too at first glance.

There's a strange gap in the X-Plane series around the 7-9 mark, which gives people like us LOTS of scope I'm sure. 

As a 'bonus' they include the XB-70 right at the back. 

[Gondor]

Purchased at Perth today

Valiant Airframe Album 10 The Me 163 Komet

Colors & Markings Vol 1  F-106 Delta Dart

Gondor

[scooter]

From Amazon: The Little Ships, book 3 of J.A. Sutherland's Alexis Carew series.   Again, read it on Kindle, but also wanted the hardcopy