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As much as I’m moving away from the First World War, I still get caught by the War in the Skies and the War outside of Europe. Arthur Gould Lee would have a varied career in what became the RFC. I’m not supposed to buy new FWW but for a couple of pounds in a charity shop…🤷🏻‍♂️ 📚 #histbookchat

Why do I need the plans for a 1720s era 20 gun ship? I’m I going to build one? No. I’m I going to model one? No. Why then? I don’t know…but I want more! HMS Blandford from the series Anatomy of the Ship. 📚 🌊 🇬🇧 #histbookchat

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More Prime Ministerial content this morning: Addington (Pitt is to Addington as London is to Paddington fame) and the first volume (I have the second) of the biography of Derby. 🗳️ 🇬🇧 📚 #histbookchat

A storytelling Irishman could tell you a thing or two about the probability of an improbable event! I’ve seen a black swan or two as well. Not always brought on by Finnish stout though… #readingndrinking

Sat in the garden reading about Europeans thrashing about in continental wars while drinking an excellent English Ortega white wine. I feel like I should be a resident clerk at the Foreign Office… #histbookchat #continentalwarssociety #readingndrinking

“Now’s your time!” Some Guards in the Peninsula and at Waterloo content from Ian Fletcher. The Napoleonic book pile is getting ridiculous now… 🇬🇧 💂 📚 #histbookchat

A late arrival yesterday is @Balkan_Dave’s new book on the Ottoman-Russian-Austrian War of the 1730s. Dave knows his stuff: see podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p... for a later Russo-Turkish War. 🇷🇺 🇦🇹 🇹🇷 📚 #histbookchat

A Hessian (and Waldecker) morning. 3 books from my dealer in York. I’ve become fascinated by the Germans who travel to fight in the American revolt. I blame @kabinettskriege.bsky.social and the Prime & Load podcast 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 📚 #histbookchat

Have heard mixed reviews of this book but it covers a subject I’m very interested in so I’ll take a risk… ⚔️ 📚 #histbookchat

An online order. I really enjoyed Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series and it was sad to hear of his death. Here’s an anthology of alternate history stories to honour the man himself. 📚 #alternatehistory

Let’s see what Captain Moiret makes of his ‘holiday’ to Egypt with Napoleon Travel. Memoirs found in a charity book shop. 🇫🇷 🇪🇬 📚 #histbookchat

My impression of Louis XVI has always been of a hapless chap overwhelmed by events and on his best day just bobbing along on their tides. Let’s see what Hardman can do to change my mind… 🇫🇷 👑 📚 #histbookchat

It’s here! @leedavidevansuk.bsky.social’s book on the most efficient users of the political guillotine. As the Tories settle down to a period of consistent leadership after the tumult of Cameron to Sunak (move over French Revolution!) I’m looking forward to getting into this. #histbookchat

More 18th century Russian content from Isabel de Madariaga from a charity shop… 🇷🇺 📚 #histbookchat

Still selling dozens of books on my eBay. Lots of FWW & SWW; a lot of fiction; some Big Finish Doctor Who cds; some US Civil War and even some 17th century history. Have a browse ebay.us/m/d81MEC #histbookchat

I think I might be testing the limits of my understanding by taking David Deutsch’s book out to the garden with a glass of Finnish porter but I intend to try! 📚 🍻 🏡 #readingndrinking

Some politics this morning: this was recommended to me awhile ago and I spotted it in a secondhand book shop. The development of intellectual conservatism (which has taken a bit of a beating in recent years) through a series of key thinkers… 📚

Finally found a sensibly priced secondhand copy of this to go with my Forgotten Heroes of the Charge of the Heavy Brigade. 🐴 ⚔️ 🇬🇧 🇷🇺 📚 #histbookchat

Tonight I am mostly drinking Gordon & MacPhail in the Soho Whisky Club