From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try, "more Guns less crime" by John Lott. I've got a copy
you can borrow if you want.
Jonathan Laws
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The problem with that book is that you need a degree in
statistical analysis to understand it. The Armed Citizen
book contains summaries of several
From: "ALEX SPEDDING", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nobody has mentioned Forester,s Brown on Resolution, about one
rifleman taking on one of the Kaiser,s warships.
Alex
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Actually the latest issue of SOF has a brilliant article about
the rescue of the RIR soldiers in Sierra Leone.
Steve.
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My vote for the christmas book list would be "Expedient
Homemade Firearms (the 9mm submachine gun)" by P.A. Luty.
If you recall Mr.Luty was jailed at Her Majesty's pleasure
for 4 years in 1998 (must be due for release by now), after
being found in
From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've mentioned this before, but a really good book is "Marine Sniper"
by Charles Henderson, and it's still in print and you can still
get it easily!
Steve.
Definitely agree as I bought it last time you recommended it and couldn't
put it down.
Purchased
From: "N. L. Cobb", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another Forester work worth reading is "Rifleman Dodd." During the
Peninsula Campaign Dodd, through no fault of his own, becomes separated
from his outfit and eventually joins a guerrilla band, sniping at the
French. Forester could have gone into more
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kenneth, an excellent list, most of which I have not read but ought to
sometime. You mention John Masters's "Bugles And A Tiger", eminently readable
autobiography by a man who changed his life post-war, left the regular army,
and became a novelist living in the USA.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gosh, now there's a leading question.
My taste tends towards older non-fiction rather than the modern novels.
Second World War:
The Phantom Major by Virginia Cowles is a compelling read about the early
days of the SAS. It's interesting to compare it with Popski's
From: "Jeff Wood", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Two suggestions, one a book and the other a movie.
The book is Without Remorse by Tom Clancy. Clancy is a big seller and will
need no introduction to most readers. He is uneven from book to book, and
even within books. Mostly he's a bit sentimental and
From: "John Kime", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently, on recommendation from 'the list' I acquired a copy
of Unintended Consequences by John Ross via Amazon.
Suffice to say I found it a cracking read, I wonder if any of
the big Hollyweird studios will ever have the cojones to make
into a full
