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I'm not the person to ask, Harry, and it would have been a good question for me to ask others. I am coming across books serendipidously, but none are a complete history. I just bought The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army by Gary Sheffield after listening to the author on an Australian Great War series (link to be found in the literary book club's Testament of Youth thread).
I have read these books in the last few months: Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain - highly recommended All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque - MR book club selection. A must-read. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett is a gripping fictional story of the war from several perspectives. Excellent. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins is the current MR book club selection. I am nearing the end and it is a worthwhile read. It is these books that interested me to the point of setting the Great War reading challenge. Suggestions are welcome by me, but maybe not by others in the bargain mystery thread. Edit: Although I chose to answer your question seriously, I do get the irony of fun and WWI in the same paragraph. Hence, my yearning for mysteries which are generally fun to read. Last edited by BelleZora; 07-22-2014 at 09:01 PM. |
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The Guns of August (Amazon.com link) is well worth reading.
Also Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory. It is not a general history but a provocative exploration of the war through popular culture and contemporary literature. |
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There is a thread in Reading Recommendations that's all about WWI books...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=241981 |
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Sadly, only the last one of the Mamur Zapt books is available as an ebook, but many or all of the Seymour books are available as ebooks. I find Pearce's books to be well written and hysterically funny in an understated, dry, sort of way. The plots are not the central part of what I enjoy - instead it's the atmosphere, the locations, and the characterizations that are great. Another (non-fiction, so off-topic) author if you are willing to extend to pre-WWI is Peter Hopkirk, who has written extensively about the Great Game period and the British Raj. I've read three or four of his books, and quite enjoyed them as well. Last edited by sufue; 07-23-2014 at 03:05 AM. |
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Oh yep the two Pearce series are also in my favourites list!!!
Pearce's ability to write up bureaucratic bungling is par excellence!!! |
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Part of today's Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal at 99p:
The Helium Murder by Camille Minichino. Quote:
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Thai Horse, by William Diehl
Your William Diehl collection could be expanding again...
Thai Horse, by William Diehl, is free at Amazon, US at least. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008NXU0DS A couple of his books have been free this month (posted earlier in this thread). I think the only other time any of these appeared for free was immediately after their original release as ebooks. Originally published in 1987, Diehl was perhaps best known for Sharkey's Machine & Primal Fear, both turned into movies. I've enjoyed all of his books, which I would classify as thrillers. Quote:
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Correct URL for Thai Horse, by William Diehl, at Amazon.com -
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008NXU0DS |
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Free Today on Amazon UK - Death Before Time by Andrew Puckett
'Dr Fraser Callan is recovering from his wife’s death. In need of a change, he takes a job at the Wansborough Community Hospital in Wiltshire. Previously known as St. James’, the hospital has made a miraculous recovery from a scandalous history, when it was described as “Death Wards” for the elderly by the national press. But history sometimes comes back to haunt us… At first, the hospital seems a model of excellence, but then Fraser realises that more patients are dying of pneumonia than should be the case. When he raises the matter, he is ridiculed, threatened with the sack and finally beaten up by gangs of thugs. Then, after the suspicious death of an old man with terminal cancer, Fraser realises he must act. He reports his suspicions and is persuaded by Marcus Evans, a mysterious civil servant, to work undercover to find the killer. But who is the culprit? And can Fraser find him before he also meets his Death Before Time? UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Before...ndeavour+press US http://www.amazon.com/Death-Before-T...ndeavour+press Au http://www.amazon.com.au/Death-Befor...ndeavour+press Can http://www.amazon.ca/Death-Before-Ti...ndeavour+press |
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Free Today on Amazon UK -Bone Fever by David Tomlinson
'Louie Case has recently been released from jail for throwing a rock star out of his hotel window. Now has found a job as Head of Security at a dingy Soho strip-club. But he soon realises the club’s sex-obsessed and brutish owner, Ruben Linskey, and his nephew, Terence, are hiding something sinister. He overhears Ruben having a violent argument with his stripper girlfriend, Glory. Out of revenge Glory steals Ruben’s mother’s urn and holds it at ransom for twenty-five grand. The only way she will give it back is if Louie agrees to protect her by acting as a middle-man during the handover. Determined to get the urn back, Ruben forces Louie to travel to Scarborough, along with Terence, to make the handover. Will the notoriously heartless Linskey live up to his promises and make the exchange fairly? Does he really just want the urn back for sentimental reasons? Or is it hiding something more disturbing?' UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bone-Fever-D...ndeavour+press US http://www.amazon.com/Bone-Fever-Dav...ndeavour+press Au http://www.amazon.com.au/Bone-Fever-...ndeavour+press Can http://www.amazon.ca/Bone-Fever-Davi...ndeavour+press Last edited by Mort1997; 07-26-2014 at 12:15 AM. |
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Free Today on Amazon UK -Parting shot by Roger Ormerod
'When fashion photographer and ex-cop Owen Tanner’s Scandinavian wife Karin vanishes from his apartment, he assumes that she has left him and their marriage is over. But then his home is ransacked and he begins to wonder if he has jumped to the wrong conclusion. And when he receives a distressed call from Karin in Sweden, his suspicions are confirmed. Owen leaves immediately for Scandinavia, determined to find out the truth. During the crossing, he meets beautiful Finlander Eija Karlsson who seems keen to help him in his quest. But the couple are not alone. When Own realises he is being tailed by an old colleague from the force, the Norwegian police and other more sinister figures, he finds himself somehow caught up in the middle of a hunt for international diamond thieves. As events reach a climax, Owen finds himself falling for Eija, and uncovers a conspiracy behind his wife’s departure that is more terrifying than anything he could have imagined… ' UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Parting-Shot...ndeavour+press US http://www.amazon.com/Parting-Shot-R...ndeavour+press Au http://www.amazon.com.au/Parting-Sho...ndeavour+press Can http://www.amazon.ca/Parting-Shot-Ro...ndeavour+press |
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Free Today on Amazon UK -Brass in Pocket (Inspector Drake 1) by Stephen Puleston
'It is the middle of the night ...The road is deserted ...A killer is waiting ... Two traffic officers are killed on an isolated mountain pass in North Wales. Inspector Drake is called to the scene and quickly discovers a message left by the killer - traffic cones in the shape of a No 4. The killer starts sending the Wales Police Service lyrics from famous rock songs. Are they messages or is there some hidden meaning in them? Does it all mean more killings are likely? When a politician is killed Drake has his answer. And then the killer sends more song lyrics. Now Drake has to face the possibility of more deaths but with numbers dominating the case Drake has to face his own rituals and obsessions. Finally when the killer threatens Drake and his family he faces his greatest challenge in finding the killer before he strikes again.' UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brass-Pocket...362247031_f_11 US http://www.amazon.com/Brass-Pocket-I...362247031_f_11 Au http://www.amazon.com.au/Brass-Pocke...362247031_f_11 Can http://www.amazon.ca/Brass-Pocket-In...362247031_f_11 |
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Free Today on Amazon UK - Forty Days at Kamas by Preston Fleming
'Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's account of a Soviet labor camp revolt in Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, the story of FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS follows political prisoners and security officials at a corrective labor camp in Kamas, Utah, where inmates seize control during the summer of 2024. SYNOPSIS: Kamas, Utah. 2024. In the totalitarian dystopia that America has become after the Unionist Party's rise to power, the American West contains vast Restricted Zones dotted with ghost towns, scattered military garrisons and corrective labor camps where the regime disposes of its real and suspected enemies. Kamas is one such camp. On a frigid March night, a former businessman from Pittsburgh, Paul Wagner, arrives at a labor camp in Utah's Kamas Valley, a dozen miles east of the deserted resort town of Park City, which prisoners are dismantling as part of a massive recycling project. When Wagner arrives, he is unaware that his eleven-year-old daughter, Claire, has set off to Utah to find him after becoming separated from her mother at the Philadelphia Airport. By an odd quirk of fate, Claire has traveled on the same train that carried her father into internal exile. Only after Wagner has renounced all hope of survival, cast his lot with anti-regime hard-liners and joined them in an unprecedented and suicidal revolt does he discover that Claire has become a servant in the home of the camp's Deputy Warden. Wagner is torn between his devotion to family and loyalty to his fellow rebels until, on the eve of an armored assault intended to crush the revolt, he faces an agonizing choice between a hero's death and a coward's freedom.' UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Forty-Days-K...362247031_f_15 US http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Days-Kam...362247031_f_15 Au http://www.amazon.com.au/Forty-Days-...362247031_f_15 Can http://www.amazon.ca/Forty-Days-Kama...362247031_f_15 |
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Free Today on Amazon UK (one for Harry T
? ![]() 'An artifact is stolen from the King Tut exhibit, setting in motion a string of bizarre murders that baffle the Kansas City Police Department. A local author simultaneously releases his novel, The Curse of the Pharaohs, attributing the deaths to an ancient prophesy, ‘Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the King.’ Are the deaths the result of an ancient curse or modern day mayhem? Follow the clues with Walt and decide for yourself!' UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Justice-Phar...362247031_f_18 US http://www.amazon.com/Justice-Pharao...362247031_f_18 Au http://www.amazon.com.au/Justice-Pha...362247031_f_18 Can http://www.amazon.ca/Justice-Pharaoh...362247031_f_18 |
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