#HistBookChat choice for this week. I can't recommend this work highly enough, it has everything a would be visitor or one who is already familiar with the bridgehead could hope to find.

I've just finished it, a very good read indeed.

Good find.

Stolen Kiss (2014)
by Pierre Riolett

That sounds potentially interesting, good find.

I was just reading the section of Frank McDonough's The Hitler Years - Disaster which deals with the Warsaw Uprising. Grim stuff. Many moons ago I had a GF with Polish parents - the Dad fought in North Africa and Italy, the Mom had a tattoo on her inner arm with all that implied.

I get where you're coming from, I go through such phases myself and STP is always a good fallback when the world gets too mad.

#HistBookChat offering for this week. I'm only about a quarter of the way in so far but it's going great so I don't think it'll go unfinished. It's a sad but inevitable thought that as the years pass, first hand accounts from the veterans will cease as the years catch up with them.

DPD are shysters of the first order, at least on a par with Evri. I'm not sure the Peace Movement achieved anything more useful (long term) than those doing the fighting. It was a f*ck up from 1946-1975.

That's reasonably well organised.... certainly tidier than my ready-use pile(!) It occasionally gets reworked with the other piles dotted about the house, depending what I'm working on/researching.

Late (no shock there!) again with this #HistBookChat offering. The Canadians were vital to the success of the Normandy Campaign and what came later. For those interested in their part of the struggle, this is a good place to start.

Embers of War is especially good.

Only 8 books? That's remarkable restraint (!)

I've had to disperse my TBR pile into several heaps, it was becoming a danger to navigation.

Is it as good as it looks?

Some excellent choices there.

Cheers mate, much obliged.

I think I'll take a leaf out of Rincewind's book and run whilst the going is good.

You cad!

Where would we be if everyone agreed with everyone else? I'm going to read volume 2 though. Isn't it agreeable that on this page at least, opinions can be exchanged without daggers being drawn?

Plus, I originally intended it to be the first of a trilogy but things popped up so it has remained a trilogy of one. Very niche(!)

I'll be honest, Pete, it isn't as good as my last one (how's that for blowing my own trumpet??!) but back then, before the internet properly took off and much research was based on archive visits and grovelling letters to the French Army and AF archives, it could have been worse.

Needless to say, I lost my copy years ago. According to what I've managed to find, the UK part of Galago folded when the brother who ran it died, the South African part of the Co went bankrupt and was wound up by the courts. Where that leaves the authors, I don't know.

Cornell University still has a copy on its shelves (probably bought in error!) or at least it did the last time I googled their catalogue.

D'oh! Galago went bust a few years ago, I must see what I can do (if anything) to get it back into print when I'm better. What happens to the copyright once a publisher ceases trading? It's hardly the greatest loss to military history but still...

Cheers! Much obliged..

The front cover of my book, Not A Military War, published by Galago Books, back in (if memory serves) 2008/9.

Probably a silly question (judging from the paucity of royalties over the years) but has anyone ever read my early foray into things French Indochina?