EesomeBeastie
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Now moved on to "Forgotten Battlefronts of the First World War" by Martin Marix Evans, and in particular the chapter on the fighting in the Vosges mountains.
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How's your son doing, Elizabeht?
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He is THREE POUNDS FOUR OUNCES.... WOOHOOOOOO!!!!!
It's the only good news I have today.
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I've just finished Alexandria - the latest in the lighthearted series about Falco, the detective and informer in ancient Rome. This time he visits Alexandria and gets enmeshed in murder, infighting and illegal selling off of scrolls at the Great Library.
I'm on a new Greg Isles.
I've just finished Mark Urban's Wellington's Rifles: Six Years To Waterloo with England's Legendary Sharpshooters ( New York, 2004 ). It's a thorough account of one of the British Army's most celebrated units, the 95th Regiment of Foot ( Rifles ). Its exploits through six years of the Peninsular War were legendary and, as a result, it was eventually taken out of the "line" and became known as The Rifle Brigade. It was the first unit in the British Army to adopt the American tactics observed by the British between 1775-1781— dispersed troops using cover and aimed fire with "Baker" rifles rather than the massed fire of smoothbores by in-line troops.
Geneva Conventions? Huh? The Peninsula was nasty, nasty, nasty business. Wounded or captured troops could expect no quarter; it was normal for the dead, wounded or captured to be stripped of all their clothes and possessions. Discipline in the British Army was severe and fierce; Wellington and his commanders worked assiduously to be sure that British troops feared them more than they feared the French. Floggings were frequent and de rigeur. I'm not sure what was more horrific, Nelson's Navy, Wellington's Army or service as Napoleonic cannon fodder.
I am halfway through Voltaire's "Candide". Very entertaining read!
Hehe nah, the english translated version. Never came across a French copy. It'd be hard anyways since my French has suffered from not using it. Grew up speaking Portuguese mostly!In the French, rather than translation, guessing from your user name?