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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 12 Nov 2009 12:24 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Veggie Dave <Veggie~Dave(a)127.0.0.1> saying something like: >And on a related note, can anyone recommend a book on de Gaulle and his >attitude to working with the Allies during WWII? "Hermph; well ey'll do eet, buet eye don' ev to leek it, yu nar."
From: Cab on 12 Nov 2009 12:39 On Nov 12, 11:51 am, Veggie Dave <Veggie~D...(a)127.0.0.1> wrote: > Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote the following literary masterpiece: > > >Can anyone recommend a very good book on the First World War. > > And on a related note, can anyone recommend a book on de Gaulle and his > attitude to working with the Allies during WWII? Shite. HTH. -- Cab
From: Veggie Dave on 12 Nov 2009 13:07 Cab <rosbif(a)gmail.com> wrote the following literary masterpiece: >Shite. I was looking for a slightly more in-depth discussion on the matter rather than a synopses, irrespective of that synopses' accuracy. -- Veggie Dave http://www.iq18films.co.uk "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine
From: Leszek Karlik on 12 Nov 2009 13:14 On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:04 +0100, The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: [de Gaulle] > Churchill didn't like him (possibly because they had a similar > single-minded approach to their countries) but recognised him as the > only Frenchman really worth a light. I'm currently listening to an audio book of Churchill's World War 2 memoirs, I've reached the fall of France, and Churchill's opinion of de Gaulle seems to be quite high, so far. :-) The memoirs are quite interesting, too, and I'm listening to them right after finishing "World War 2 - A Military and Social History", a series of lectures by Thomas Childers, so there's a nice contrast between the general approach taken by Childers and the first person account of one of the Allied leaders. (I was a bit disappointed, though, when both Childers and Churchill wrote about Polish cavalry charging German tanks during the defense of Poland in 1939. Just proves how effective German propaganda was, sigh :-)) -- Leszek 'Leslie' Karlik NTV 650
From: Andy Bonwick on 12 Nov 2009 15:38
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:01:17 -0800 (PST), "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: snip> >One single book, though, is hard to recommend. Castles of Steel for >the naval arms race and the big ships battles. Sagittarius Rising for >the best description of a fighter pilot's life ever written. The best books about a fighter pilots life were the Biggles ones you ill-bred oaf. |