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Did you read "Mother Tongue"? fabulous explanation of the English language.
Recommend me a good book.....
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David Niven (English Hollywood star from the 30s/40s/50s/60s) wrote an autobiography The Moon's A Balloon which is extraordinary. Then he wrote a book with adozen mini-biographies of other Hollywood superstars from the viewpoint of them being personal friends.
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Know what? Change is as good as a rest. I'm going to have a look at Empires of the Sea. Normally history, older than a hundred years or so,makes me go glassy eyed. (I can't really blame my history teachers from my school days for that. My own refusal to pay attention was the real reason. But your description makes it look a bit interesting. I'm gonna give it a go. Thank you.
Great- let me know what you thought.
I've leant that book to a few people and they all thought it was excellent.
The chapter on the siege of Malta is particularly memorable. "We had consumed all food within the city, including the cats" springs to mind.
Perhaps not directly war related but Richard P. Feynman "Don't you have time to think?"
Richard Feynman was part of the team that made the first nuclear bomb. Nobel prize winner, a leader in the thinking of quantum computing but also was on the investigative panel of the Columbia shuttle disaster - it was Feynman that theorised the repeated heat can cooling of the O ring that lead to it's failure.
A book, told through his own letter correspondence with others rather than directly penned (collated by his daughter).
Richard Feynman was part of the team that made the first nuclear bomb. Nobel prize winner, a leader in the thinking of quantum computing but also was on the investigative panel of the Columbia shuttle disaster - it was Feynman that theorised the repeated heat can cooling of the O ring that lead to it's failure.
A book, told through his own letter correspondence with others rather than directly penned (collated by his daughter).
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If you’ve already read “With the Old Breed” then you might have already read this as well, but I’m on book 3 of the Ian Toll Pacific series and it’s really excellent.
You've probably already read/listened but Snowing In Bali is a great read in the same vein.
This thread keeps coming up with good ideas. My reading/listening list is overflowing.
Another one I would suggest:
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz.
A true story of false imprisonment in the Gulag and the struggle to escape. Gobsmack read.
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This sounds good, not keen on buying kindle edtion, as I prefer a book in my hand. £18 new.
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Mr Nice by Howard Marks. Good autobiography.
Getting through a few Audiobooks this month, so looking for some recommendations and was surprised/pleased to find this one comes ('free'?) with my Audible subscription.
As is...
OP, it looks like I quite like similar books to you (autobiographies, war and prison based) so would shout out -
The Longest Kill - Craig Harrison
Unruly - David Mitchell
A Bit of a Stretch - Chris Atkins
And Away - Bob Mortimer
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry
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