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April 20th, 2012I finally finished reading this and I am glad I did. Already, as a result of the first quick look, Anthony and I had decided to expand our little ancient Greek project to include the Persian invasion. I thought I had a good understanding of the politics, military systems and battlegrounds of this conflict [...]
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 Tags: ancient history, greece, osprey, persia, plataea, Reviews | 
One comment so far |  Print This Post |  Email This Post |  So, I got a nice message from Dymocks the other day offering me Kerry Greenwood’s Cocaine Blues in paperback for AU $22.99. Nice price for a paperback in Australia (although I would need to add on some extra for postage). Maybe when I am back in Sydney later this month I could pick up a [...] “What’ll we do for our next period?” asked Anthony. “Dunno”, says I. “I have a hankering for something 30 Years War ish, or Napoleonic, or maybe even Malburian or the American War of Independence.” “Yeah”, says Anthony, “or maybe Saxons versus Vikings, after all, Napoleonics is just like American Civil War wargaming with more [...] I hate to admit it but it seems that recently I have been having a slight return to my childhood. Over the Christmas break I decided to christen my new Kindle with a copy of The Camels are Coming by Capt. W. E. Johns. This was first published on the 7th of September 1932 [...] Tags: aeroplane, bi-plane, biggles, camel, fokker, sopwith, WW1 |
3 people had their say - be the next! | Print This Post | Email This Post | Whilst I was reading Beatrix Bulstrode’s A Tour in Mongolia I recalled that there was one of the Capt. W.E. Johns’ Biggles stories set in and around parts of the Gobi. I also have the vaguest memory of having seen that book, perhaps even reading it when I was a youngster. I will need [...] Reader’s will know I have a strong attachment to Mongolia so look for opportunities to promote the country and to dispel some of the false impressions we may have of Mongolia and the Mongols from our upbringing and reading such historical source material as W.E. Johns’ Biggles books. I do from time to time [...] In another “well duh” article, last week the Sydney Morning Herald ran a piece on Showrooming trend worries booksellers. Apparently folks with smart phones will wander around a bookstore in the lunch hour browsing the titles on the shelf. When they see one that sounds interesting, they take a photo of the page showing the [...] OK, you don’t need to be an intellectual genius to work this one out – and this is even worse than the usual issues as this is electronic. The image above is from Borders Australia, for the supply of an eBook (for those of you not familiar with the technology, it is a book [...] A while back Doug lent me a book, Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy’s Own Story of Imaginary Combat written by Harry Pearson. I’d kept the book with me but hadn’t really bothered to start to read it as there was always something else to read on my eBook reader. The battery went flat on a [...] Last night I was watching Newsline on the Australia Network and a piece came on about Alice Pung. Alice Pung is a writer, lawyer and teacher and her last book, Her Father’s Daughter, tells the story of her father, a survivor of Cambodia’s Killing Fields and her cultural awakening. Pung was born and raised in [...] |
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