Welcome, Guest
Username: Password: Remember me

TOPIC:

Books--What are you reading/read and recommendations 9 years 2 months ago #24792

  • coldstream
  • coldstream's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • Moderator
  • Moderator
  • Posts: 2056
  • Thank you received: 214
Doug,

I agree, I try to display the best I can, I am sure you will do a good job.
Good idea about the maps, I have used maps as a background and it can be effective.
Just took the photo so the lighting is not too good.




Paul

Doug wrote: Paul

I am hoping the refurbishment and extension will be around 5-6 months, so in for late summer. I am spending lots of time thinking about how to display the items. I don't really want them locked away, but was thinking of some pertinent maps on the wall alongside the books for easy reference.

Doug.

"From a billow of the rolling veldt we looked back, and black columns were coming up behind us."
Attachments:
The following user(s) said Thank You: djb

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Books--What are you reading/read and recommendations 9 years 2 months ago #24793

  • Doug
  • Doug's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Senior Member
  • Senior Member
  • Posts: 304
  • Thank you received: 17
Paul

Looking great. I might need some designer help looking at this ;)

Doug.
Doug Jenkins

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Books--What are you reading/read and recommendations 9 years 2 months ago #24794

  • Hudson
  • Hudson's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Junior Member
  • Junior Member
  • Posts: 30
  • Thank you received: 4
what a comprehensive collection Paul, impressive.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Books--What are you reading/read and recommendations 9 years 2 months ago #24796

  • QSAMIKE
  • QSAMIKE's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Senior Member
  • Senior Member
  • Posts: 5792
  • Thank you received: 1873
Books on South Africa that I rec'd for Christmas this year.....

KHAKI IN SOUTH AFRICA, Geo. Newnes, Ltd, London, ex-Zion Chapel, Manchester, First Edition

5th PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES DRAGOON GUARDS, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, By Major Pomeroy, First Edition

THE STORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, By Ridpath, Clarke, Cooper and Aken, Guelph Ontario, Second Edition

MEMOIRS OF PAUL KRUGER, By Himself, 1902, (Note inside Colonial Edition for Circulation only in the British Colonies and India, First Edition)

THE BOER FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, By Michael Davitt, 1902, First Edition

Military but Non-Boer War Books:

THE MADMAN AND THE BUTCHER, Sam Hughes and Arthur Currie, by Tim Cook, 2010

DAD'S ARMY, WALMINGTON GOES TO WAR, Complete Scripts of Series 1-4, By Perry and Croft, 2001

CANADA'S GREAT WAR ALBUM, By The History Channel 2014

THE GREAT WAR HANDBOOK, By Bridger, 2014

HUMOROUS SCOTTISH WAR STORIES AN CARTOONS, Selected from the Daily Mail of WW1, By Allan Junior, 1930

Mike
Life Member
Past-President Calgary
Military Historical Society
O.M.R.S. 1591
The following user(s) said Thank You: absentminded beggar

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Books--What are you reading/read and recommendations 8 years 11 months ago #26661

  • coldstream
  • coldstream's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • Moderator
  • Moderator
  • Posts: 2056
  • Thank you received: 214
A new book added to the collection this week, purchased from The Minster Bookshop York for a bargain price :)

www.ghsmithbookshop.com/index.php?main_p...info&products_id=180

Regards
Paul :)
"From a billow of the rolling veldt we looked back, and black columns were coming up behind us."
The following user(s) said Thank You: BereniceUK

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Books--What are you reading/read and recommendations 8 years 11 months ago #26664

  • Hudson
  • Hudson's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Junior Member
  • Junior Member
  • Posts: 30
  • Thank you received: 4
Just finished 'Die Mauser Knal' by JF Van Wyk which is the memoirs of a 16 year old Penkop fighting with the Boers in the Western Transvaal and am currently busy with 'Fire in the sky by' by Owen Coetzer which is about the destruction of the Free State 1899-1902, after that I have acquired a 1941 first edition copy of ' Vir Vryheid En Vir Reg' By General JC Kemp. Needless to say being English speaking the Afrikaans books are challenging to read but happily my speed is improving :)

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Moderators: djb
Time to create page: 0.536 seconds
Powered by Kunena Forum