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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Fall of Arthur
This book is recommended by Thygocanberra. I have a copy and will read with interest.
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
What can I say. My favourite book. I think I have at least four different editions.
R. G. Grant: Battle: A Visual Journey Through 5,000 Years of Combat
This is the dream book for wargamers. Literally hundreds of battles. Over 350 pages of full colour illustrations. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
John Gibson Warry: Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome
We all have a wonderful book with fantastic illustrations, that amazed us in childhood, and followed us to our grown up bookshelf. This is one of those books. (*****)
Antony Beevor: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
In school we were taught such an English view of World War II. Now I have discovered the epic battles on the Eastern Front, truly gargantuan conflicts. This book is a great introduction to the Eastern Front and a brilliant history book. (*****)
A fair and honest description, and I can understand why the bit about the secret Lockheed Martin conference was left out.
Posted by: Paul | Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 11:54 PM
Ah yes, I remember it like it was yesterday! I was sitting in a cafe with a dear school friend discussing things of import when I noticed a beautiful lady sitting indoors, perhaps six tables away.
Ah, but even now, after so much time has passed, my eye forgets nothing. For as I noticed her, as if an angel had whispered in her ear, but she looked up at me and our eyes met. Perhaps it was the arcing plasma of the molecules of air stripped of their electrons by the intensity of our locked gaze, but I noticed nothing else, neither tattoo nor tired reference to false climate sceptic data that my friend was alluding to.
As if mesmerised, we stood up and walked towards each other, and time froze around the piazza. The pigeon mid flight in the air, the laughter of the children playing stilled like droplets of water from a fountain. I reached the door first, and flexing my pectoral muscles with unmistakable masculinity, pulled open the door and whispered hoarsely "Ma chere".
"Thank you" she laughed, her sweet voice ringing like the carillon calling the faithful to matins, "and a thought you should know", her sweet voice catching ever so slightly betraying the depth of her emotions, "that your fly is undone."
Ah, Celeste and I were so perfect together. In a few mere seconds we spelled out an infinity of passion across the multi-verses where opportunity aligned with availability in the tango of true love.
Even now the moment is like an oil canvas that captures a paroxysm of truth that knows no defeat. Did my dear friend Paul realise that the history of the universe was rewritten that sunny morning?
Posted by: PythonMagus | Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 05:49 PM