I may not have found a book on 18th century Russian uniforms, but this is a well recommended book on the developing Russian military culture… 🇷🇺 📚 #histbookchat
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I may not have found a book on 18th century Russian uniforms, but this is a well recommended book on the developing Russian military culture… 🇷🇺 📚 #histbookchat
A longer Saturday shift than expected, so my mood was much improved on returning home to some book post.
My thanks to @ospreypublishing.bsky.social for these new arrivals today for review.
#histbookchat
My thanks to @ospreypublishing.bsky.social for these new arrivals today for review.
#histbookchat
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A longer Saturday shift than expected, so my mood was much improved on returning home to some book post.
My thanks to @ospreypublishing.bsky.social for these new arrivals today for review.
#histbookchat
My thanks to @ospreypublishing.bsky.social for these new arrivals today for review.
#histbookchat
I have 12 of them; what does that say about me? #histbookchat
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I have 12 of them; what does that say about me? #histbookchat
I largely blame @armchairhistorian.bsky.social and @kabinettskriege.bsky.social for my latest book buying splurge. This weekend I will mostly be designing accurate uniforms and colours in #masterofcommand! #histbookchat
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I largely blame @armchairhistorian.bsky.social and @kabinettskriege.bsky.social for my latest book buying splurge. This weekend I will mostly be designing accurate uniforms and colours in #masterofcommand! #histbookchat
Just finished my 72nd Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #YugoslavianHistory #CroatianHistory #Ustase #AntePavelic #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #FascistiHistory #ItalianHistory #HistBookChat
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Martin Koenigsberg's review of Hitler’s Croatian Ally
4/5: The 1940s were a time of difficult choices for many nationalist movements. Should they join the Axis or the Allies was a very real riddle to solve at one's peril. The Croatian centrist anti commu...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just finished my 72nd Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #YugoslavianHistory #CroatianHistory #Ustase #AntePavelic #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #FascistiHistory #ItalianHistory #HistBookChat
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Trip to Denver for a CMH meeting and supplies - one of the lads found a cache of Ballantine's!! #GarageSaleScore #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #AlliedHistory #AirborneOperations #BritishImperialHistory #AmericanHistory #HistBookChat
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Trip to Denver for a CMH meeting and supplies - one of the lads found a cache of Ballantine's!! #GarageSaleScore #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #AlliedHistory #AirborneOperations #BritishImperialHistory #AmericanHistory #HistBookChat
Dagnabbit - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AmericanHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #PacificWar #USMC #IslandHopping #AmphibiousWarfare #LandingForce #AirborneWarfare #WWIIHistory #SWWHistory #HistBookChat
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Dagnabbit - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AmericanHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #PacificWar #USMC #IslandHopping #AmphibiousWarfare #LandingForce #AirborneWarfare #WWIIHistory #SWWHistory #HistBookChat
Currently Reading! Just Another Day in Vietnam by Nightingale about the ARVN 52nd Rangers and the day they were almost completely wiped out. The author was the Dep. Senior Advisor to the Bn and present at the battle.
#VietnamWar #Histbookchat #Nonfiction #Booksky
#VietnamWar #Histbookchat #Nonfiction #Booksky
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Currently Reading! Just Another Day in Vietnam by Nightingale about the ARVN 52nd Rangers and the day they were almost completely wiped out. The author was the Dep. Senior Advisor to the Bn and present at the battle.
#VietnamWar #Histbookchat #Nonfiction #Booksky
#VietnamWar #Histbookchat #Nonfiction #Booksky
Great to hear it went well - bumping to the #histbookchat feed 😊
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Great to hear it went well - bumping to the #histbookchat feed 😊
Great stuff from Tonio Andrade on China and the origins of gunpowder #sinology #histbookchat
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Great stuff from Tonio Andrade on China and the origins of gunpowder #sinology #histbookchat
My views on Lord George Sackville are entirely negative as some of you know. I now have a copy of the proceedings of his Court Martial. Drummed out of the army in disgrace who would go on to set policy in North America during the Revolution. *shakes head in disgust* 📚 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 #histbookchat
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
My views on Lord George Sackville are entirely negative as some of you know. I now have a copy of the proceedings of his Court Martial. Drummed out of the army in disgrace who would go on to set policy in North America during the Revolution. *shakes head in disgust* 📚 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 #histbookchat
...a range of excellent case studies ranging from across the 20th and 21st centuries. There's something of value here for a range of readers, from academics to practitioners alike.
It's certainly worth your time (and money!).
#HistBookChat
It's certainly worth your time (and money!).
#HistBookChat
a woman in a library with a tote bag that says ' nlg ' on it
ALT: a woman in a library with a tote bag that says ' nlg ' on it
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November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
...a range of excellent case studies ranging from across the 20th and 21st centuries. There's something of value here for a range of readers, from academics to practitioners alike.
It's certainly worth your time (and money!).
#HistBookChat
It's certainly worth your time (and money!).
#HistBookChat
Sorry - and bumping to the #histbookchat feed - Advance Alan 😁
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Sorry - and bumping to the #histbookchat feed - Advance Alan 😁
Early this week, I finished Christian Tripodi's "The Unknown Enemy".
It's a book that's been on the radar for some time and it was certainly worth the wait. Tripodi has skillfully critiqued the concept of 'political warfare' in counterinsurgency, utilising...
#HistBookChat #Skystorians #COIN
It's a book that's been on the radar for some time and it was certainly worth the wait. Tripodi has skillfully critiqued the concept of 'political warfare' in counterinsurgency, utilising...
#HistBookChat #Skystorians #COIN
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Early this week, I finished Christian Tripodi's "The Unknown Enemy".
It's a book that's been on the radar for some time and it was certainly worth the wait. Tripodi has skillfully critiqued the concept of 'political warfare' in counterinsurgency, utilising...
#HistBookChat #Skystorians #COIN
It's a book that's been on the radar for some time and it was certainly worth the wait. Tripodi has skillfully critiqued the concept of 'political warfare' in counterinsurgency, utilising...
#HistBookChat #Skystorians #COIN
Historian Max Boot explores the link between Dick Cheney and Donald Trump through the lens of the imperial presidency.
#HistBookChat
#HistBookChat
The Cheney Effect
How Dick Cheney Became the Accidental Architect of Trump’s Power
reader.foreignaffairs.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Historian Max Boot explores the link between Dick Cheney and Donald Trump through the lens of the imperial presidency.
#HistBookChat
#HistBookChat
Hope it goes well (although I doubt a light read!) Bumping to the #histbookchat feed 😊
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Hope it goes well (although I doubt a light read!) Bumping to the #histbookchat feed 😊
Just bought this for my other half for Christmas. He saw it at the Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek back in 2017 and he's been regretting not buying it ever since 😂 #histbookchat
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Just bought this for my other half for Christmas. He saw it at the Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek back in 2017 and he's been regretting not buying it ever since 😂 #histbookchat
I published a new book review: J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp.
See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Dutch version: vbds.nl/wp-content/u...
Original: vbds.nl/2025/11/01/m...
🧪 #AcademicSky #Histbookchat #booksky
See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Dutch version: vbds.nl/wp-content/u...
Original: vbds.nl/2025/11/01/m...
🧪 #AcademicSky #Histbookchat #booksky
(PDF) More and More and More
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November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I published a new book review: J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp.
See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Dutch version: vbds.nl/wp-content/u...
Original: vbds.nl/2025/11/01/m...
🧪 #AcademicSky #Histbookchat #booksky
See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Dutch version: vbds.nl/wp-content/u...
Original: vbds.nl/2025/11/01/m...
🧪 #AcademicSky #Histbookchat #booksky
Wartime entertainment was just some toothy bloke with a ukulele. Hold my beer! Excited to be presenting a topic close to my heart on @ww2tv.bsky.social in early December! #histbookchat
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Wartime entertainment was just some toothy bloke with a ukulele. Hold my beer! Excited to be presenting a topic close to my heart on @ww2tv.bsky.social in early December! #histbookchat
Reading Alan Allport's terrific 'Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War,' one of the best books about the #SWW I've read in a while. Just brilliant. #histbookchat
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Reading Alan Allport's terrific 'Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War,' one of the best books about the #SWW I've read in a while. Just brilliant. #histbookchat
Just finished my 70th(!!) Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #KuwaitiHistory #IraqiHistory #GulfWarII #NATO #WarsawPact #AmericanHistory #BritishHistory #PostColdWarHistory #ColdWar #HistBookChat
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Martin Koenigsberg's review of Tanks in the Gulf War 1991 (New Vanguard #337)
4/5: I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Cold War was pretty intense, and the Warsaw Pact quantity versus NATO quality trope was a pillar of Western belief. Then the second Gulf War came along-...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just finished my 70th(!!) Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #KuwaitiHistory #IraqiHistory #GulfWarII #NATO #WarsawPact #AmericanHistory #BritishHistory #PostColdWarHistory #ColdWar #HistBookChat
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I *may* have been to the bookshop.
@jasonburke2.bsky.social @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social
#newbooks #booksky #histbookchat
@jasonburke2.bsky.social @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social
#newbooks #booksky #histbookchat
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I *may* have been to the bookshop.
@jasonburke2.bsky.social @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social
#newbooks #booksky #histbookchat
@jasonburke2.bsky.social @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social
#newbooks #booksky #histbookchat
....Corbett, though, it also has a lot to say about naval and amphibious strategy, and says it well.
#histbookchat
#histbookchat
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
....Corbett, though, it also has a lot to say about naval and amphibious strategy, and says it well.
#histbookchat
#histbookchat