So here it is#HistBookChat folks, the final installment of the #TenBooksOfChristmas!
As a final treat, we also have a late entry, a mini book review, and some honourable mentions, all wrapped into one thread (lucky you!).
It's another year with another entry from one of my...
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Rejoice #HistBookChat folks, it's the penultimate episode of the #TenBooksOfChristmas!
Although it has a grammatically excreable title, Andrew Sanders and Ian Wood's "Times of Troubles" is a genuine 'must read' for scholars of the British Army and Northern Ireland.
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It's Day 8 of the #TenBooksOfChristmas (finally got my day's right!). In a 'books of the year' first (for me at least) we have an author appearing twice as @swbfolsom.bsky.social's "Where Youth and Laughter Go" is next up for...
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So it's actually Day 7 of the #TenBooksOfChristmas because we had two "Day Three's" and I've decided to skip Day Six 😅
Today's entry is a comparatively recent read - Peter Morton's "Emergency Tour". As someone studying counterinsurgency at the battalion level, this was an...
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It's Day 5 of the #TenBooksOfChristmas and we're not having to go back very far for today's selection.
"Alpha" is a book that will make you angry, but it's a must read (in my humble opinion) for those interested in the #GWOT & special special forces.
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It's that time again, Day 4 of the #TenBooksOfChristmas!
Toby Harden's "Bandit Country" has been around for an awfully long time. So long in fact, that bu the time I bought a copy, he'd republished with a new foreward and the ability to name several anonymised characters...
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Hello! It's time for Day 3 of the #TenBooksOfChristmas! Today's entry is courtesy of @swbfolsom.bsky.social's "The Highway War".
As #HistBookChat readers will know already, I'm a big fan of Col. Folsom's writing. Few memoirs are as searingly self-reflective. "The Highway War"...
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Welcome back to Day 3 of the #TenBooksOfChristmas!
Today's entry is a comparatively recent read in the form of Christian Tripodi's "The Unknown Enemy".
A fascinating corrective towards much of the counterinsurgency practice of the past quarter-century...
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Hello #HistBookChat gang, it's time for Day 2 of the #TenBooksOfChristmas (again, with the caveat that they're books I've read this year)
Moving on to Book 2 of the year, @thomasdmleahy.bsky.social's "The Intelligence War Against the IRA" is one of those books that gets you to rethink your...
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A variation of my annual 'top ten books (I've read) this year' list - the #TenBooksOfChristmas (I've read this year)!
Let's start with Book 1 of the year...
