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More Patrick O’Brian content this morning. I’ve picked up the first book in his duology on Anson’s circumnavigation (I have the second one already). Having exhausted the Aubrey/Maturin series I was delighted to discover an earlier, albeit very short, naval series. 🌊 📚 🇬🇧 #histbookchat

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

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

“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

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

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… 📚

A late delivery (to my place of work for a change) - Mohawks on the Nile. Now there’s an image to conjure with… 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇪🇬 🇸🇩 #histbookchat

More memoirs from Leonaur: The retreat to Corunna and women under arms… 📚 #histbookchat

June’s Helion Books’ Reason to Revolution new publications have arrived! 📚 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇷🇺 🇫🇷 #histbookchat

More secondhand Peninsula memoirs gathered up. This time a cavalry surgeon… 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇫🇷 📚 #histbookchat

I have never read any Jane Austen even though I have watched lots. I keep talking about buying one. Well I went a little overboard in the end. I can’t resist a good @foliosociety set and I spotted these secondhand… 📚