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Post subject: Suggested Reading  Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:03 am |
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Ah, I get it. Sort of my take on the issue between 6mm, 15mm, and 28mm. There are way too many people jumping into the 28mm market and failing. If someone would try the other two they may have success.
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:01 pm |
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Hi Guys,
I've been rereading an old favorite:
"Duel For the Golan" by Jerry Asher and Eric Hammel, an old favorite about the desperate fighting between the Syrians and Israelis on the Golan Heights during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
It's one of those books that takes very few sittings since it really engages me.
Shalom,
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:20 pm |
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I think generally, G/W-F/W and GZG turn out pretty good 6mm Troops... ?
I'm still reading H. Harrington... not as good as Hammer's Slammers but entertaining... 
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:39 pm |
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| Quote (Legion 4 @ 07 2005 June,07:20) | | I'm still reading H. Harrington ... not as good as Hammer's Slammers but entertaining ... |
At times, do you feel like you are reading a Traveller Game when you are reading Harrington?
I kept thinking to my self, I wonder if the author was influanced by Traveller or the other way around. Many simular ideas.
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:00 am |
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Drake's Slammers reminds me .. well too much like my "good old days!"  ?
But we had M-113s (like Drake's unit in 'Nam) and M-60s/M-1s, not GEV Combat Cars and Blowers! 
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 11:13 pm |
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| Quote (dafrca @ 07 2005 June,13:39) | | At times, do you feel like you are reading a Traveller Game when you are reading Harrington? |
Dunno the refference...
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:41 am |
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| Quote (deathlynx @ 09 2005 June,15:13) | | Quote (dafrca @ 07 2005 June,13:39) | | At times, do you feel like you are reading a Traveller Game when you are reading Harrington? |
Dunno the refference... |
Which, Traveller or Harrington or Both?
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:44 am |
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Just finished the H/H story, not bad. Starting another in the book tomorrow, from another author. I let you know more, but I'm still a Drake fan !
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:11 am |
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| Quote (Legion 4 @ 09 2005 June,21:44) | | Just finished the H/H story, not bad. ?Starting another in the book tomorrow, from another author. I let you know more, but I'm still a Drake fan ! ? |
I agree, if I had to select one or the other, Drake's stories are far and away better in my opinion.
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:36 am |
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I have just finished reading Collaborator.
I have just finished reading Collaborator by Murray Davies which is set in a nazi occupied Britain and tells the story of a British soldier working for the occupying forces as a translator who then gets involved in the resistance...
December 1940 and England lies under German occupation. In the West Country, Nick Penny comes home after four months as a prisoner of war to act as interpreter to the provincial governor. He finds his father dead, his mother crippled, and his best friend Roy heavily involved in a resistance movement. When war hero Matty Cordington returns to run his father's estate, the three friends are re-united in a common purpose.
Life under the occupation becomes a compromise at every level. Nick's sister Joan sleeps with a profiteer to find food for her family. There are leaks in the resistance movement, and Matty's girlfriend is fingered and dispatched. The occupation turns nastier as Hitler invades Russia, with less food and greater demands on the civilian population to labour in the Reich. Britain's Jews are first deported, then the 'Final Solution' is enacted on English soil.
But treachery still dogs the resistance and, hunted by the Gestapo and the British police, Nick and his girlfriend Angel desperately race to eliminate the real traitor. The story then escalates to an explosive climax at the very centre of occupational power.
It is a very good read and though it has something of a slow start it certainly picks up towards the end of the book.
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:51 pm |
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Sounds excellent Jimbo, I'll look out for a copy.
I've just got my hands on a copy of Robert Harris' Fatherland which I'm really looking forward to reading...
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:14 pm |
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:35 pm |
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| Quote (dafrca @ 09 2005 June,19:41) | | Which, Traveller or Harrington or Both? |
 Uhhh...Concidering I started the thread by praising Harrington I think it's Traveller...But I could just be confused
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:01 pm |
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| Quote (stormseer @ 10 2005 June,12:51) | | Sounds excellent Jimbo, I'll look out for a copy. |
Check your local library.
I have been using their online ordering service and it has been very easy to find copies of books I quite like the look of but probably wouldn't buy.
I've just got my hands on a copy of Robert Harris' Fatherland which I'm really looking forward to reading... |
That is a good book, I really enjoyed it. However the film version with Rutger Hauer is a bit of a disappointment...
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:37 am |
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?Wish someone (OLD CROW ?!?!) would do Hammer's Rgt. in 6mm, but don't get me started ! ?