What are you reading right now?

[Lost Redditor]

I'm reading Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich which is written by David Webster of the 101st Airborne. It's not particularly well-written, but it's an engaging and fascinating view from the legendary unit that jumped in behind enemy lines.

The HBO show Band of Brothers follows Easy Company in the 506th regiment and David Webster is featured in the show as he transferred to E Company after they jumped into Normandy.

I enjoy this book because he doesn't portray himself as heroic, and he's always trying to get out of going on patrols which is a reasonable human intuition. But he did return to E Company after being wounded because he didn't want to leave his band of brothers.

 

[Cossie]

I want this t shirt.

https://zallestudio.com/products/oh-bother...i-bought-another-book-t-shirt

 

[VPS]

I want this t shirt.

https://zallestudio.com/products/oh-bother...i-bought-another-book-t-shirt

I resemble that remark

 

[Cossie]

Sigh, another one.

 

[Cossie]

Forgot this one,




And this just arrived in my inbox.

2026 Bookshop pre-Christmas sale | National Library of Australia (NLA)

Join us for a special one day only sale at the National Library Bookshop!

www.library.gov.au

 

[kookaburra75]

And this just arrived in my inbox.

2026 Bookshop pre-Christmas sale | National Library of Australia (NLA)

Join us for a special one day only sale at the National Library Bookshop!

www.library.gov.au

Thanks for the heads up. I will definitely drop in for a 'few' items

 

[ausfox]

Building Bad by McKenzie and Schneider is mostly about the CFMEU and its involvement with the Victorian Big Build projects. Generally public domain information but brought together. An easy but interesting production.

 

[Q Class Plebeian]

Recently read ,Black Kettle and Full Moon by Geoffrey Blainey. Its everyday life in Australia from the gold rush to WW1. Such a different world, but an era where there was a significant degree of technological change .It's not just recent generations who have experienced profound change .Such as the transformative change from candle light to electric light.It makes whole occupations such as lamp lighters and gaslighters disappear in a very short time and new ones appears.It makes AI simply seem like phasing fad .
At this juncture of the 21st century have little to complain about.Travel then required rigor and fortitude it was full of tedium , difficulties and risk. A delayed flight or a soggy toastie in the lounge is nothing compared to the months at sea or days in a dusty horse drawn coach.