22.06.2011, 04:54
Hi Jambo !!
Very nice topic you did there !!!
What I am reading at this moment, well this is a Geostrategy review, edited by French journal 'LA MONDE'. It is in French, but a lot of informations, more than if you look at the news on TV during a year ;o) This is a special edition, made one time in the year and about many subjects such as Army, Conflicts, Hot points, Economy, Drugs... It is called "Le Monde Bilan Geostratégique 2011"
The last books I read : 'War and Peace' from Tolstoi in Russia during the early XIXth century and Napoleon's campaign
'If it's a Man' from Primo Levi, about the year he past in the extermination camp of Auschwitz
'The Hope' from André Malraux, about Spain's war in 1936/7 (I really encourage you to read it if you want some inspiration before doing some missions or campaign in IL2;o)
'La promesse de l'aube' ('The promise of dawn') from Romain Gary, Goncourt Price (Romain Gary is the only writter who had 2 times this prestigious price you could normally obtain only one time in your life). It deals with Romain Gary's childhood, about his mother, his fight to gain French nationality, and his experience of war into the RAF during WWII. He was with the firsts who joined De Gaulle in June 1940. It is an awesome book, very well written. Romain Gary who was Bombing Officer, obtained DFC for having helped ( in spite of his own wounds) his pilot (the pilot had been hit in the head, and couldn't see anymore because of schrapnells into his eyes) to return back home and to land safetely. The plane was an A20 Boston. As everybody knows, in A20 Boston, pilot, bomber and gunner were separated in 3 differents armoured compartments so they only couldn't communicate with radio. That's why it was so difficult for the crew to bail out when a plane was damaged, because every member of the crew couldn't see the others, so if radio was hit...
'A day with Ivan Denissovitch' from Soljenitsine, about communist workers camps in Siberia during early 50's
'The East War' from August Von Kagenec, about the campaign what did his father against the russians during WWII
'The Capitain's daugther' from Pouchkine, about Russian aristocraty during the XVIIIth Century
'Tarass Bulba' from Gogol, about an Ukrainien Kossac in the war against Poland
'The Big Circus' from Pierre Clostermann, war memories of a French pilot in the RAF
'Par le sang versé' from Paul Bonnecarrère, The French Foreign Legion into Indochina
'Les Rois Maudits' (The Cursed Kings?) from Druon about french kings into the Middle Age, after Philippe 4
'Waffentechnik im zweiten Weltkrieg' about WWII weapons, tanks, airplanes, guns, boats... in German
What more ? I can't remember all the books I read this year... lol
A yes, I remember, I read many things about IL2, IL2 Mods, COD, VSF... ;o)
Cheers
Ted
Very nice topic you did there !!!
What I am reading at this moment, well this is a Geostrategy review, edited by French journal 'LA MONDE'. It is in French, but a lot of informations, more than if you look at the news on TV during a year ;o) This is a special edition, made one time in the year and about many subjects such as Army, Conflicts, Hot points, Economy, Drugs... It is called "Le Monde Bilan Geostratégique 2011"
The last books I read : 'War and Peace' from Tolstoi in Russia during the early XIXth century and Napoleon's campaign
'If it's a Man' from Primo Levi, about the year he past in the extermination camp of Auschwitz
'The Hope' from André Malraux, about Spain's war in 1936/7 (I really encourage you to read it if you want some inspiration before doing some missions or campaign in IL2;o)
'La promesse de l'aube' ('The promise of dawn') from Romain Gary, Goncourt Price (Romain Gary is the only writter who had 2 times this prestigious price you could normally obtain only one time in your life). It deals with Romain Gary's childhood, about his mother, his fight to gain French nationality, and his experience of war into the RAF during WWII. He was with the firsts who joined De Gaulle in June 1940. It is an awesome book, very well written. Romain Gary who was Bombing Officer, obtained DFC for having helped ( in spite of his own wounds) his pilot (the pilot had been hit in the head, and couldn't see anymore because of schrapnells into his eyes) to return back home and to land safetely. The plane was an A20 Boston. As everybody knows, in A20 Boston, pilot, bomber and gunner were separated in 3 differents armoured compartments so they only couldn't communicate with radio. That's why it was so difficult for the crew to bail out when a plane was damaged, because every member of the crew couldn't see the others, so if radio was hit...
'A day with Ivan Denissovitch' from Soljenitsine, about communist workers camps in Siberia during early 50's
'The East War' from August Von Kagenec, about the campaign what did his father against the russians during WWII
'The Capitain's daugther' from Pouchkine, about Russian aristocraty during the XVIIIth Century
'Tarass Bulba' from Gogol, about an Ukrainien Kossac in the war against Poland
'The Big Circus' from Pierre Clostermann, war memories of a French pilot in the RAF
'Par le sang versé' from Paul Bonnecarrère, The French Foreign Legion into Indochina
'Les Rois Maudits' (The Cursed Kings?) from Druon about french kings into the Middle Age, after Philippe 4
'Waffentechnik im zweiten Weltkrieg' about WWII weapons, tanks, airplanes, guns, boats... in German
What more ? I can't remember all the books I read this year... lol
A yes, I remember, I read many things about IL2, IL2 Mods, COD, VSF... ;o)
Cheers
Ted