Read any good books lately?

A Low Flying Pterodactyl by John Powers.  About his career in the Coast Guard flying both helo's and C-130's.

"Deception in War" by Jon Latimer. Basicly about the use of camouflage, deceptive troop and armour movements, noise discipline and radio deception, etc. used from the time of the Trojan Horse to the Gulf War. Very good reading.

Jim

"Finding the Few," by Andy Saunders.  It's about recovery efforts for the remains of Battle of Britain pilots, missing since 1940 in England.  For the most part, it's been done by amateurs and without the cooperation of the Ministry of Defense.  Very moving.

Im currently reading "Prospero Burns" by Dan Abnett. Its part of the warhammer 40k "Horus Heresy" series.

Storyline is an artefact hunter gets irritated with the beuracracy of the administratum so at the ripe old age of 80 he travels to the planet of Fenris, where the space wolves astartes make their home. While entering the atmosphere he gets shot down by a space wolf named Bear. After certain events on the ice planet hes taken in by the space wolves and "Repaired" given a younger faster harder body. He then goes to war with them as their Skjald (Rememberer, teller of stories)

Im up to the part where hes sitting with the oldest of the wolves of fenris, whos been hit with a power hammer and is leaking blood everywhere (Hes claims hes no dieing, healing just hurts) telling him of his friend murza who wielded the powers of the warp which is the only thing that frightens the wolves.

Im enjoying it immensely. Im about half way through.

I've been reading about the H.M. Troopship Birkenhead, which sank off Point Danger in Africa. Tremendous account about the sacrifice of the British troops in deference to the safety of the women and children on board.

Glenn

Hugh Howey's "Wool" series...one of the most interesting things I've read in years, about the survivors of some past apocalypse living within a massive underground silo. Seriously fantastic...Howey's writing is evocative without slipping anywhere near pretentious.

"Theodore Rex" by Edmund Morris...absolutely excellent, in-depth look at TR's administration. Learned a lot I didn't know or that I knew but vaguely.

"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. I'm a HUGE Stephenson fan and go back and forth as to whether Cryptonomicon or Anathem is my favorite novel, but I'd never taken in this classic "predicted the internet and virtual worlds and Google Earth" story before. Awesome, but somehow lesser in my mind than his more recent stuff.

gregbale

"Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist"

Sir Isaac Newton running the Royal Mint and busting counterfeiters, true story.

Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle features Newton extensively, particularly as head of the royal mint as he trues to bust one of the other characters for counterfeiting. Dense, but awesome.

"Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist"

Sir Isaac Newton running the Royal Mint and busting counterfeiters, true story.

Also James Garner's autobiography

I am currently reading Antony Beevor's "The Second World War" very good reading,made me aware of some things i didn't know.

Just finished "The Spanish Holocaust"By Paul Preston A real eye-opener about the Spanish Civil War,just some horrific details,I had no idea of the bloodshed.

Stik,Tuchman's book an oldie but a goodie,very insightful.

A little while ago I read "Bury Us Upside Down" about the Misty pilots in Vietnam. Great book.

More recently "Race for the South Pole". Certainly I've read several books about Amundsen and Scott, but this one was a little different.

The structure is parallel diary entries, day by day, from Scott, Amundsen and his team member Olav Bjaaland (Amundsen tends to be terse) all the way down and back. This one really was a winner.

I hear that Damon and Affleck are making a movie. I would see that. Pretty tough on dogs...

Currently I am reading "Endurance".