Book List

Introduction

As you would expect this section contains a list of books. If I have read the book it shows whether I own a copy and if I can recommend it, if I haven't read the book it will show whether I want a copy.

Please remember that if I recommend a book there is absolutely no guarantee that you will agree with me if you buy it.

There is a guide to the icons used at the bottom of this page, along with guidance on buying me books

Added 5 Apr 2012

The List

Series:	Combat Development in World War II
Comment:	Clearly presented and do not assume to much technical knowledge on the part of the reader. These books cover all nations involved in the conflict and are factually, rather than opinion, based with wartime test results presented in the back. They avoid getting bogged down in retelling combat stories and concentrate on the technical, and tactical, developments.
Titles:		Bomber Aircraft (1989)  -  -  Alfred Price
		Fighter Aircraft (1989)  -  -  Alfred Price
		Tank Warfare (1990)  -  -  Bryan Perrett
	Added 22 Jan 2012
Series:	Rivers of London
Author:	Ben Aaronovitch
Comment:	Start from the point that the Metropolitan Police Force (Metropolitan London, for our overseas friends) has a department that deals with the supernatural. Add a new recruit. Add a seriously nasty supernatural miscreant. Place those ideas in the hands of an author of wit, wisdom and deep knowledge of London and with a background in writing for Dr Who. The result is this series, featuring Detective work and Adventure, the aforementioned Supernatural (but without wheeling out the Sparkly Vampires), quiet humour and a sideline in exposing the real, modern, London.
Titles:	1.	Rivers of London (2011)  -  -
	2.	Moon Over Soho (2011)  -  -
	3.	Whispers Under Ground (2012)  -  -  Not yet published
	Added 03 Feb 2012
Title:	Bomber Boys -  -  Fighting Back 1940-1945
Author:	Patrick Bishop
Published:	2008
Comment:	Book so far unread
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	Fighter Boys -  -  Saving Britain 1940
Author:	Patrick Bishop
Published:	2003
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Series:	Fethering
Author:	Simon Brett
Comment:	A rather lightweight but competently written series. Good, if like me at the time, you require a book simply to fill the time whilst you are ill. Based on the South Coast town of Tarring and its surrounding area, which I know well from my youth - which is what initially attracted me to the series. Good on 'local colour' and really catches the 'feel' of the area but the stories are not that memorable. Quietly humorous.
Titles:	1.	The Body on the Beach (2000)  -  -
	2.	Death on The Downs (2001)  -  -
	3.	The Torso in the Town (2002)  -  -
	4.	Murder in the Museum (2003)  -  -
	5.	The Hanging in the Hotel (2004)  -  -
	6.	The Witness at the Wedding (2005)  -  -
	7.	The Stabbing in the Stables (2006)  -  -
	8.	Death Under the Dryer (2007)  -  -
	9.	Blood at the Bookies (2008)  -  -
	10.	Poisoning at the Pub (2009)  -  -
	11.	The Shooting in the Shop (2010)  -  -
	12.	Bones Under the Beach Hut (2011)  -  -
	13.	Guns in the Gallery (2012)  -  -
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Those Ragged Bloody Heroes -  -  From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942
Author:	Peter Brune
Published:	1992
Comment:	A vivid book that relates the desperate battle for the Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea in 1942, the units involved and their eventual involvement in the battle of Gona. Casts Australian higher command as the villain of the piece without examining the whys and wherefores behind the decisions made and is particularly critical of Blamey with little attempt at covering the pressures he was under. A good book but very much the 'view from the trenches' with a line to push, look elsewhere for context.
Links:	Wikipedia (Kokoda Campaign)
	Added 27 Jan 2012
Title:	Scent of the Missing -  -  Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
Author:	Susannah Charleson
Published:	2010
Comment:	Wonderful book covering Susannah's, and eventually Puzzle's, progress into the world of Search and Rescue (SAR). Covers the experience of SAR, and the dedication required to make it happen, well. British readers will find the special problems involved with working in Texas of interest. Now being developed into a TV Series (Filming for the Pilot is complete).
Disclosure:	I have known Susannah for many years on the Gunroom EMail list. I might therefore be a bit biased.
Links:	Book
Title:	Mud, Blood and Poppycock -  -  Britain and the First World War
Author:	Gordon Corrigan
Published:	2003
Comment:	Really hammers the 'public narrative' of the First World War. Corrigans thesis is that the ideas summed up by the phrase 'Lions led by Donkeys' can no longer stand. Like the attribution of the quote to Ludendorff, they have a very shaky basis. Sometimes he overstates his case, in particular with regard to the impact of casualties, but the book effectively presents the emerging, more balanced and complex, view of the war. A book to turn ideas on their head and make you start thinking rather than absorbing.
Links:	Daly History Blog
	Updated 27 Jan 2012
Title:	Understanding the Working Lurcher -  -
Author:	Jackie Drakeford
Published:	2000
Comment:	THE book covering working and training Lurchers. Covers the training and techniques required for hunting prey that is now illegal in order to record them for posterity.
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	Flying Start -  -  A Fighter Pilot's War Years
Author:	Hugh Dundas
Published:	2011
Comment:	Hugh Dundas was 19 when he was called up as a Pilot Officer in 1939. By the end of the war he was Group Captain Hugh Dundas DSO and Bar DFC having been the youngest Group Captain the RAF had ever had at the age of 24. This is the story of his part in the Battle of Britain and as leader of a Squadron, and then a Wing, during the battle for Italy. Sir Hugh (as he became in later life) is candid about how scared he was and, at one or two points, about the impact of fear on his fellow pilots. Not an amazing book by any means but engrossing and a book that delves a little deeper into what it meant to be a pilot and leader at the time.
Links:	Publisher    Wikipedia (Hugh Dundas)
	Added 22 Jan 2012
Title:	The Last Sailorman -  -
Author:	Dick Durham
Published:	1989
Comment:	The Thames Barge 'Cambria' was the last vessel to trade under sail alone in the UK. Dick Durham was her last Mate, backing up Skipper Bob Roberts and his dog Penny. This Dick's Biography of Bob, who was also a well known Folk Singer and sailed on many other vessels besides Thames barges.
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	K Boats -  -  Steam-Powered Submarines in World War I
Author:	Don Everitt
Published:	1999
Copyright:	1963
Comment:	The disastrous British K Class Submarines from inception to retirement. Includes the epic rescue of the survivors of HMS K13 and the 'Battle of May Island', where the Royal Navy destroyed two of its own Submarines and heavily damaged a further two plus a Cruiser, all without the aid of the enemy.
Links:	Wikipedia (K Class)
	Added 22 Jan 2012
Series:	Blue Ant
Author:	William Gibson
Comment:	Gibson's most recent works are much less Science Fiction and more fiction featuring today’s technology and culture. They form a series in that they are tied together by the Blue Ant marketing firm and a number of common characters.
Titles:	1.	Pattern Recognition (2003)  -  -  Product of a re-write after the events of September 11th 2001, by which time 100 pages had been completed.
	2.	Spook Country (2007)  -  -
	3.	Zero History (2010)  -  -
	Added 27 Jan 2012
Series:	Bridge Trilogy
Author:	William Gibson
Comment:	Less Cyber, more Punk than the Sprawl. The future is closer in time and reality than in the Sprawl. The Bridge is the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, abandoned and turned into a First World Shanty Town, around which much of the action centres. Grimmer in many ways than the Sprawl series there isn't all that much optimism. The books form more of a conventional series than the Sprawl does.
Titles:	1.	Virtual Light (1993)  -  -
	2.	Idoru (1996)  -  -
	3.	All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)  -  -
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 27 Jan 2012
Series:	Sprawl Trilogy
Author:	William Gibson
Comment:	Ladies and Gentlemen, this IS Cyberpunk. Not the first, maybe not even the best, but the series that is the best known example of the Genre. The books are linked yet stand alone. Read them.
Titles:	1.	Neuromancer (1984)  -  -
	2.	Count Zero (1986)  -  -
	3.	Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)  -  -
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 27 Jan 2012
Title:	Burning Chrome -  -
Author:	William Gibson
Published:	1986
Comment:	Short Stories
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 27 Jan 2012
Title:	The Difference Engine -  -
Authors:	William Gibson Bruce Sterling
Published:	1990
Comment:	Charles Babbage succeeded in building his Difference Engine. Then in 1824 came the Analytical Engine. Its now 1855, his Engines are everywhere, Lord Charles Babbage is an influential politician and there is a certain set of important Punch Cards...
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 27 Jan 2012
Title:	First Man -  -  The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
Author:	James R Hansen
Published:	2005
Comment:	The authorised biography of the publicity shy First Man on the Moon. It covers his full career, not just the Apollo 11 flight. However the detail of his life post Apollo is understandably rather more sketchy. The book looks into the relations between the crew of Apollo 11 and the various controversies that have arisen over the flight in a calm and even-handed way. This is no hagiography, however you are left with a deep sense of admiration for the man and an understanding of why he was chosen for the flight and was preferred to be the first on the surface.
	Added 27 Jan 2012
Title:	Air Sea Rescue During the Siege of Malta -  -  An Eyewitness Account of Life with HSL107 1941-43
Author:	Bill Jackson
Published:	2010
Comment:	Primarily a view of life for a young RAF sailor in a small, detached, unit during the WWII Siege of Malta. Features lifesaving episodes but, whilst fascinating, these are not the main focus.
Links:	Publisher
Title:	Captain White's River Life -  -
Author:	Steve White
Editor:	Nancy Larcomber
Published:	1995
Comment:	The life of 'Captain' Steve White, the last man to work a trading boat on the Basingstoke Canal and, before that, a Barge Captain on the River Wey. Edited and Illustrated by Nancy Larcomber who was living on the Basingstoke, aboard the boat Towed Haul, at the time. Hard to find, even in paper form.
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	Lethality in Combat -  -  A Study of the True Nature of Battle
Author:	Dr Tom Lewis
Published:	2012
Comment:	Looks at when soldiers kill and why, in the context of what general society expects of them and the realities of war.
Disclosure:	Tom Lewis is a friend from the Gunroom
Source:	The Gunroom
Links:	Amazon
	Added 05 Apr 2012
Title:	The Submarine Six -  -  Australian Naval Heroes
Author:	Dr Tom Lewis
Published:	2012
Comment:	Tom Lewis is a member of The Gunroom with an impressive back catalogue. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for his services to the RAN, particularly in promoting its history.
Source:	The Gunroom
Links:	Publisher    Wikipedia (Tom Lewis)
	Added 22 Jan 2012
Title:	The Railway Man -  -
Author:	Eric Lomax
Published:	1996
Comment:	Eric Lomax worked as a POW on the notorious Burma-Siam railway, including the actual Bridge Over the River Kwai. He was tortured by the Japanese. The book covers these experiences, but also his reconciliation, many years later, with one of the interrogation team. Was covered by the documentary 'Enemy My Friend' and is due to be made into a Film in 2012.
Links:	Wikipedia (Eric Lomax)    The Foregiveness Project (Eric Lomax)
	Updated 27 Jan 2012
Series:	Aubrey-Maturin Series
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Comment:	Simply the best Napoleonic Naval Warfare Novels ever written. Well written and historically accurate in all but minor details. Less books about naval warfare than books about people who just happen to be engaged in naval warfare, some of the time. O'Brian has been described as 'The best historical novelist of the 20th century' and I agree.
	The storylines of the later books tend to spread over three, or even four, books so reading your first book 'out of sequence' is probably not the best introduction to them. That said, Post Captain is often recommended as the first volume for people who aren’t already fans of Naval Warfare to begin with.
Titles:	1.	Master and Commander (1970)  -  -
	2.	Post Captain (1972)  -  -  If you aren't a Naval Warfare fan, begin with this book.
	3.	HMS Surprise (1973)  -  -
	4.	The Mauritius Command (1977)  -  -
	5.	Desolation Island (1978)  -  -
	6.	The Fortune of War (1979)  -  -
	7.	The Surgeon's Mate (1980)  -  -
	8.	The Ionian Mission (1981)  -  -
	9.	Treason's Harbour (1983)  -  -
	10.	The Far Side of the World (1984)  -  -
	11.	The Reverse of the Medal (1986)  -  -  Contains one of the most affecting scenes in the series, 'Off Hats!'
	12.	The Letter of Marque (1986)  -  -
	13.	The Thirteen Gun Salute (1989)  -  -
	14.	The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991)  -  -
	15.	Clarissa Oakes (1992)  -  -  Alt Title: The Truelove (US)
	16.	The Wine-Dark Sea (1993)  -  -
	17.	The Commodore (1995)  -  -
	18.	The Yellow Admiral (1996)  -  -
	19.	The Hundred Days (1998)  -  -
	20.	Blue at the Mizzen (1999)  -  -
	21.	The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004)  -  -  The book Patrick O'Brian was working on when he died on the 2 January 2000. Published incomplete as the text of the typed portions and facsimile of the handwritten remainder
Links:	Gunroom    Wikipedia    WikiPOBia
Title:	Beasts Royal -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian (Orig. as Richard Russ)
Published:	1934
Comment:	A collection of the young O'Brians animal based Short Stories.
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Caesar -  -  The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard
Author:	Patrick O'Brian (Orig. as Richard Russ)
Published:	1930
Comment:	Appearing when, the then, Richard Patrick Russ was 16, but started at age 13, this is O'Brians first published work and led to a steady series of published short stories in books for younger readers.
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	The Catalans -  -
Alt Title:	The Frozen Flame (Original UK)
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1953
Comment:	Set in the region where O'Brian had recently settled with his wife. An ex-patriot doctor is recalled from the far-east to settle a family dispute in a small Catalonian fishing village...
Links:	WikiPOBia
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	The Chian Wine and Other Stories -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1974
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Collected Short Stories -  -
Alt Title:	The Rendezvous and Other Stories (US)
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1994
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	The Golden Ocean -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1956
Comment:	The first of two books by O'Brian that deal with Anson’s costly, in human lives, and successful, in monetary and military rewards, circumnavigation in 1740. The other book is 'The Unknown Shore'. Aimed at 'Young Adults' but a very good read for 'Older Adults' as well.
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Hussein, an Entertainment -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian (Orig. as Richard Russ)
Published:	1938
Comment:	O'Brian's second novel, originally published under his birth name of Richard Russ. Deals with the life of a young Indian Mahout.
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Joseph Banks: A Life -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1987
Comment:	O'Brian collected much material on Banks as part of his research for his naval stories. As a result he produced this Biography of the naturalist, botanist and explorer.
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	The Last Pool and Other Stories -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1950
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Lying in the Sun and Other Stories -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1956
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Men-of-War -  -  Life in Nelson's Navy
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1973
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Picasso -  -
Alt Title:	Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Original)
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1976
Comment:	O'Brians Biography of his near neighbour and acquaintance, the painter.
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Richard Temple -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1962
Comment:	The life of a struggling artist in 1930's England.
Links:	US Publisher    Leserglede
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	The Road to Samarcand -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1954
Comment:	Aimed at the 'Young Adult', this book traces the adventures of a Teenaged American Boy as he travels from China, where he was brought up, to England to be educated. The chosen route is the Silk Road, or 'The Road to Samarcand' and his companions are a varied lot...
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	Three Bear Witness -  -
Alt Title:	Testimonies (US)
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1952
Comment:	A love story set in a North Welsh Valley not unlike the one O'Brian had lived in for three years a short time before. Told through interleaving testimonies by the characters.
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	The Unknown Shore -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1959
Comment:	The second of two books by O'Brian that deal with Anson’s costly, in human lives, and successful, in monetary and military rewards, circumnavigation in 1740. The other book is 'The Golden Ocean'. This book deals with the fate of the ships separated from the voyage early on and features prototypes for Jack Aubrey and Steven Maturin in the form of Jack Byron and Toby Barrow. Jack Byron was a historical character who later rose to Admiral and was the grandfather of the Poet. Aimed at 'Young Adults' but a very good read for 'Older Adults' as well.
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	The Walker and Other Stories -  -
Author:	Patrick O'Brian
Published:	1955
	Added 04 Feb 2012
Title:	The Illustrated History of Canal and River Navigations -  -
Author:	Edward Paget-Tomlinson
Published:	1993
Comment:	My 'Bible' for the waterways. Comprehensive, detailed and almost authoritative. Like all such books has small errors, the ones I am most aware of are both based on assuming that the most frequently published photographs represent the most frequently encountered situation. A Reference Book in the style of an Encyclopedia rather than one telling the 'story' of the waterways as a sequential tale. Well indexed with good maps and illustrations. Date is for the 1st Edition, get the latest you can.
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	Breeze for a Bargeman -  -
Author:	Bob Roberts
Copyright:	2004
Comment:	One of Bob Roberts' claims to fame is that he was the last man to trade under sail alone in the UK. This book covers, as well as some of his time on Thames Barges, fishing under sail from Ramsgate, crossing the Atlantic and working on a Caribbean Rum Schooner. Pub Date refers to the 3rd, Revised, Edition.
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	Coasting Bargemaster -  -
Author:	Bob Roberts
Published:	1949
Copyright:	2000
Comment:	Bob Roberts was the last man to trade under sail in a Thames Barge. This book contains his experiences of of trading under sail in the 1930's and 40's. Mostly written at sea and first published in 1949, the latest version in 2000 with additional illustrations by Bob's widow Sheila.
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	Last of the Sailormen -  -
Author:	Bob Roberts
Published:	1960
Copyright:	2001
Comment:	Bob Roberts was the skipper of the 'Cambria' (now once more sailing its old haunting grounds), the last vessel to trade under sail alone in the UK. This is his story, in his own words. Multiple editions since 1960 (whilst Cambria had 10 years of work still to go), get the latest.
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	Rough and Tumble -  -
Author:	Bob Roberts
Published:	1935
Copyright:	2003
Comment:	Two men buy a Looe Fishing Smack and head for Australia via Panama. This is what happened. Bob Roberts was the last man to trade under sail alone in the UK and wrote his books (and songs) during quiet moments aboard the Thames Barges he worked. Copyright Date is for 3rd, Revised, edition.
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	A Slice of Suffolk -  -
Author:	Bob Roberts
Published:	1978
	Added 28 Jan 2012
Title:	Shantaram -  -
Author:	Gregory David Roberts
Published:	2003
Source:	Jenson Button (On Twitter)
Links:	Wikipedia
Title:	The Art of Racing in the Rain -  -
Author:	Garth Stein
Published:	2008
Source:	Jenson Button (On Twitter)
Links:	Wikipedia
Title:	Artillery in the Great War -  -
Authors:	Paul Strong Sanders Marble
Published:	2011
Comment:	If this book reflects the knowledge and presentational skills he shows at work this should be a corker.
Disclosure:	Paul is a colleague and friend
Source:	Author
Links:	Publisher
	Added 22 Jan 2012
Title:	Women in War -  -  From Home Front to Front Line
Editors:	Paul Strong Celia Lee
Published:	2012
Disclosure:	Paul is a colleague
Source:	Editor
Links:	Publisher
	Updated 05 Apr 2012
Title:	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher -  -  or, The Murder at Road Hill House
Author:	Kate Summerscale
Published:	2008
Comment:	A pretty well known modern classic. Looks at one of the most famous murder cases of the Victorian period, largely from the point of view of Detective-Inspector Jonathan Whicher, one of the earliest Detectives in a British Police force. Covers the events themselves, the impact on society and the eventual solution (although questions are raised about the detail of this).
Links:	Book
	Updated 22 Jan 2012
Title:	The Broken Shore -  -
Author:	Peter Temple
Published:	2005
Source:	The Gunroom
Links:	Wikipedia
Title:	Truth -  -
Author:	Peter Temple
Published:	2009
Source:	The Gunroom
Links:	Wikipedia
Title:	First Light -  -  The Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-Torn Skies Above Britain
Author:	Geoffrey Wellum
Published:	2002
Source:	A Colleague
Links:	Wikipedia
	Added 22 Jan 2012
Title:	Vulcan 607 -  -
Author:	Rowland White
Published:	2010
Comment:	Covers the Black Buck 1 Mission undertaken during the 1982 Falkland War. One Avro Vulcan was sent, with the support of 15 Victor Tankers, from Ascension Island to attack the runway at Port Stanley (just under 4000 nm one-way) in what was, until 1991, the longest distance bombing mission ever attempted. Well written and of personal interest to me as I once worked for one of the raid planning team.
Links:	Guardian Review    Wikipedia (Op Black Buck)
	Added 22 Jan 2012
Title:	Railwaywomen -  -  Exploitation, Betrayal & Triumph in the Workplace
Author:	Helena Wojtczak
Published:	2005
Copyright:	2005
Comment:	One of those books that rewrites how history is perceived. One statistic, during WWII around 114,000 women worked on the railways, around the total staff numbers in 1989 yet most previous histories skimmed over their contribution. This book puts the record straight.
Disclosure:	The author is a friend of mine.
Source:	Author Contact
Links:	Publisher
	Added 17 Apr 2012

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On Buying me Books

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Changes 5 Apr 2012

Icon Guide

Each book, or group of books, is accompanied by a set of icons set out in this format:

A - B C - D

The meanings are:

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B - Ownership Status, eBooks
C - Ownership Status, Paper Editions

D - Link to Google search for the book

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	I Recommend it
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