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From: The Older Gentleman on 12 Nov 2009 15:49 Andy Bonwick <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: > 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. Ginger? Is that you? -- BMW K1100LT & K100RS Ducati 750SS Triumph Street Triple Honda CB400F Suzuki TS250 chateaudotmurrayatidnetdotcom Nothing damages a machine more than an ignoramus with a manual, a can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools
From: Pip on 12 Nov 2009 19:27 In article <1j935tz.1tvyi2z1kxpvw4N%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>, The Older Gentleman says... > > Andy Bonwick <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: > > > 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. > > Ginger? Is that you? Looks more like Algy, these days. -- Pip, the "Mechanical Nightmare" (tm Bonwick Major)
From: J�r�my on 13 Nov 2009 03:37 Kim Bolton <nospam(a)all.invalid> wrote in news:m8gof5tnricj4prtpc9i7nmad9v0hnr760(a)4ax.com: > > Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > >>We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >>drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> saying >>something like: >> >>>Can anyone recommend a very good book on the First World War. >>> >>>I've been interested in it for some time (since reading Pat Barker's >>>trilogy) and, having tonight watched Andrew Marr's "Making of Modern >>>Britain", which covered it, I feel the need to read a good in depth >>>history of the war. >>> >>>Anyone? >> >>Alan Clark's 'The Donkeys' is excellent. >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clark#Historical_writing > > I'll second that, and add 'Haig's Command', by Denis Winter. If you're interested in social history, "Testament of Youth". -- Jeremy R1200RT
From: Champ on 13 Nov 2009 06:28 On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:27:53 -0000, Pip <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > >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. >> >> Ginger? Is that you? >Looks more like Algy, these days. Yesterday evening I had to explain to F that Biggles had two acolytes, Ginger and Algy. She'd only heard of Ginger previously ("chocks away, Ginger!"). And her the daughter of an RAF flying officer, too! -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 13 Nov 2009 10:43
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> saying something like: >Yesterday evening I had to explain to F that Biggles had two acolytes, >Ginger and Algy. Ah yes, Algy, the First of the Fey. |