Wot u readin'?

[Fantasio]

Too early to say. I'm on page 140 and the book is 1520 pages.

I read The Virtue of Selfishness and Anthem by A Rand, but somehow never got around to Atlas Shrugged. How is it?

[rodia77]

I've just started listening to this:

[tribe125]

He’s good, Norman Davies. I think he died earlier this year.

[rodia77]

Oi! No mention on the Wiki, so I don't think he did, fortunately.

[tribe125]

You’re right - long live Norman.

I wonder who died? Someone definitely did...

[rodia77]

And many many will, 'cause today I also started watching the Game of Thrones.

[rodia77]

Also started this now as a bedtime story:



I don't think it was released in English, it translates as The Day on Which the Gods Came.

[whatmeworry]

Also started this now as a bedtime story:



I don't think it was released in English, it translates as The Day on Which the Gods Came.

Not sure if it was or not, but I’d kind of be surprised if it wasn’t because Chariots of the Gods was huge


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[OhDark30]

I've just started listening to this:

He’s good, Norman Davies. I think he died earlier this year.

I’ll have to check it out too

I’m reading this

Thought I knew my WW2 history, but I’m well impressed, & surprized now much here is new to me

Deighton sets things in context, taking the histories of the various powers back a couple of centuries, where needed, to show the origin of national myths and hangups

He’s very good on the attitudes of commanders, and the unvarnished reasons for cockups (and breakthroughs)
His analysis of the technological ebb and flow is also excellent
(If you’ve read his Blitzkrieg or Fighter, you’ll know what to expect)

What I’m loving though, are his quirky anecdotes eg the German Ambassador in London rings the Foreign Office just 2 minutes after war has been declared
Mass panic at the FO: does Germany want to negotiate, is a carefully crafted ad hoc diplomatic response going to be needed?

No. The Ambassador, concerned that he’ll be moving out at short notice, wants to make sure that someone will look after his dog, who’s a bit elderly

[Kronos]

Assignment to Berlin by Howard Flannery Flannery was an American radio correspondent who covered Germany un late 1940 and 1941, prior to the US entry into World War II. He replaced the much better known William Shirer. I previously read a book about the infamous Lord Haw Haw (a Brit who broadcast propaganda for and from Germany during the war), and Flannery was mentioned.


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