Books

[sausage2]

Right I'm of on my twice yearly jaunt to the desert in just over a week, and I need to take some books with me, cos otherwise if I'm bored I might end up in the gym, and we would not want that to happen.

So to that end I'm after some books that you can recommend for me to take.

Please try to be serious

 

[John Lloyd]

Right I'm of on my twice yearly jaunt to the desert in just over a week, and I need to take some books with me, cos otherwise if I'm bored I might end up in the gym, and we would not want that to happen.

So to that end I'm after some books that you can recommend for me to take.

Please try to be serious

This may be of interest, 'The history of the screwdriver' simply fascinating.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ural_History_of_the_Screwdriver_and_the_Screw

 

[Shugster]

Read this a few years back. Very good if you want to get the old grey matter working and quite interesting stories too, how Enigma was cracked etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography/dp/0385495323

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[Scaley brat]

Hustler or Readers wives.
Cut off the spine and laminate the pages and you can use them again and again !!

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[Hu Jardon]

As I was reminded by Monty Plums "Band of Brothers" and his other books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss...oks&field-keywords=Band+of+Brothers&x=18&y=17


also my personal favourite

Knave Readers Wives Big and Bouncy Easter Special 1977 - It seems to get thicker every time I take it out of GEMs special kit bagDT_Xtremez_35:

 

[rest have risen above me]

Try Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure especially if you haven't seen the telly show. It sounds not too great but you won't want to put it down.

 

[tag_lincoln]

'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' will keep you busy for a month or 2

 

[Ex-Bay]

'Longitude' by Dervla Sobel
Almost any discworld book/s by Terry Pratchet
Vulcan 607
"The making of the Atom Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.
Almost any book by P C Doherty

 

[Cooheed]

If you like it hot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

If you like it cold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Thin_Air

 

[Tashy_Man]

I think you are all forgetting S2's abilities.......try something from the Ladybird range....just one should keep you occupied for months.

Crack on..........................DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[stacker1195]

What about getting yourself a nintendo ds and 100 Classic Books? 100 books all on one cartridge should keep you going.

 

[Sospan]

What sort of books do you like S2 ?

I have read a few belters recently ranging from "The time travelers wife" an absolute classic book with a very unique storyline, which has great reviews (read it twice) to Jeffery Deavers serial killer books featuring Lincoln rhyme, good old mass murdering forensic books with lots of twists.

 

[I look like Bruce Willis]

Queen's Regulations for the Royal Air Force and The Manual Of AIr Force Law

 

[stacker1195]

Queen's Regulations for the Royal Air Force and The Manual Of AIr Force Law

Shut up you glassback kn0bscoffer!! ::/:

 

[Tashy_Man]

Queen's Regulations for the Royal Air Force and The Manual Of AIr Force Law

Obviously with AP 3000 British Air Power Doctrine for a bit of light relief ?

Crack on........................DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[Spearmint]

Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs.

All about waste and blundering within the armed forces. Focus's quite readily on its defence procurement policies.

Not that I needed it before but it doesn't half turn you into a cynical *******!

 

[MrMasher]

Waste of a thread, we all know the fcuker cant read otherwise he would have read his problem page thread.
Print that off and take it with you!

 

[Jack Jarvis]

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram.

I found it really interesting and would recommend it as a good book for det

 

[Ex-Bay]

Queen's Regulations for the Royal Air Force and The Manual Of AIr Force Law

Have they made the films of those yet ?
Or maybe the cartoon book ?

Hang on a mo'.
Now, not knowing the rank of S2, I wonder about it. I was told (many, many moons ago) that only senior officers were permitted knowledge of these books. So it could be that he's not entitled to know them (in detail, at least).

 

[MontyPlumbs]

If you like your military history, anything by Antony Beevor. I'm reading his work about the fall of Crete at the moment, I've also read his books on Berlin, Stalingrad and the Battle for Paris.

Excellent books, perfectly researched and thoroughly absorbing!

You can get them in box sets I believe.