Greetings All, I had not long ago finished Douglas Reeman's excellent Blackwood Family Sagas and have been wondering and searching ever since for any other...
Check the books written by David Donachie as Tom Connery, they all have honor (perhaps spelled Honour) in the title. And you could do worse than the Matthew...
Greetings Leo and All, Thanks for the tip on David Donachie /Tom Connery and his Honour series! Mallinson has been on my Got-To-Read list for a bit now. (Who...
Like many others here, I am trying my hand at writing a book about my hero in the Royal Navy 1793-1815. He is a midshipman at present and I am trying to find...
Hey Greg, Congratulations Greg on giving writing a go. As a reader, one of the key elements I look for in a book of nautical fiction, is accuracy. A writer...
PZ8284, Nelson's First Farewell ゥ National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London And it is actually coloured (although I saw a b&w version - Nelson and his...
Reminder from: Bolitho Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bolitho/cal Vice Admiral Sir Percyエs Birthday Friday December 12, 2008 All Day (This event...
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New Christmas Poem TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, IN A ONE BEDROOM HOME, MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE. I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,...
(let's try again without the typo LOL) Anyhow, best wishes to everyone! ... and hope you are all keeping well, and reading plenty. - Cookie aka .........
A Very Merry Christmas to all of our friends in the Bolitho group. May your holiday season bring you all the joy and happiness that your heart desires. I...
I hope everybody has a merry Christmas. And a happy and blessed new year. Brad Remember: Jesus is the reason for the season ... From: Mary M Goose To:...
Well, that's it for another year. I wondered if Santa was kind to you all? If so did you get any books? What were they? Maybe we can unearth some new AoS...
I will be out of the office from December 25 through January 2, returning to the office on January 5, 2009. Of you need anything during my absence, please...
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....thanks, Phil, for your good wishes for the new year; may I, too, wish everyone the same. I received one AoS book from a very kind friend, namely the...
Reading seems to be popular this year for Christmas gifts, I recieved "Passchendaele" by Paul Gross, the book he based the movie he made . About the First...
Bob I had the same problem with print books.be carefull what you decied to throw out.i regret throwing some series out now.for me books areknow storedon ...
Mary The problem with non fiction books on aos are there to big for meto scan.both aos books I brought when role play was still going strong. Fall into this...
Season's greetings all around. I know what Bob's talking about ... I don't know how many books we have as a family, or as individuals, but they aren't even all...
Reminder from: Bolitho Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bolitho/cal Com. Pat's Birthday Wednesday January 7, 2009 All Day (This event repeats every...
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... I'm late!) ... Clayton and Phil Craig. It really is a cracking read and made the battle come alive for me. It has excerpts from letters written by people...
i found this as an audio book. It very rare to find non fiction in this format so I was very pleased to find it. I still have not finished reading it though. ...
No Problem. It was a great book. ... From: Phil Waters To: Bolitho@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:58 AM Subject: RE: RE: [Bolitho] Re:...
Reminder from: Bolitho Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bolitho/cal Captain Jimエs Birthday Sunday January 18, 2009 All Day (This event repeats every...
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Dave Bennett Aldergrove, BC "I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through...
... to Patrick O'Brian's "The Letter of Marque." Not nearly as stuffy as some of the other ones I've dipped in to. ..... I know our Admiral Dear is likely to...
My dear Captain Cookie, POB .......... I must admit, when I last tried to re-read the entire series, just a few months ago, I didn't find him stuffy! Of course...
... Perhaps I should have said "tedious," rather than stuffy. I'm thinking particularly of that Mauritius book, which I don't think I ever did manage to...