Book On The Bedside Table

[ledge]

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Hannibal i believe was the first to do the surrounding tactic which is what the americans copied in Iraq.
Makes you realise just how much of a big head Saddam had to not even consider the different tactics , especially considering its a common and famous one.

[1eyedog]

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Hannibal i believe was the first to do the surrounding tactic which is what the americans copied in Iraq.
Makes you realise just how much of a big head Saddam had to not even consider the different tactics , especially considering its a common and famous one.

Spot on. It's called the double envelopment and the Germans actually used it in the second world war to great effect. It was likely used beforehand as well but not sure where and when. But yeah, the first instance of it in history is Hannibal at Cannae in Southern Italy around about 215 B.C. He had 25,000 men mostly mercenaries (Gauls, Spaniards, Africans) who didn't speak the same language so the feat was truly amazing. He must have had some charisma about him. He defeated an army of 80,000 Romans, comprehensibly, and not just any hotch-potch Roman army, they sent the best of the best against him. He's easily my favourite commander. How did this thread get on to this?

[Missing-Dog]

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Funny you mention that, i was watching a story on him on History channel yesterday, he defeated an army of 30,000 with just 5000, the bloke wa a tactical genius, apart from the opposition being dumb as dogs poo.

Sounds like a description of the Bulldogs vs Richmond

[LostDoggy]

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I've got about five books on the go at the minute...Crissey Amphletts Bio, Che Guvera's life story, My Bookky Wook by Russell Brand, Scar Tissue by Anthony Kedis and James Hirds rubbish effort of a bio. All unfinished, i get bored quickly these days!!

[hujsh]

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Spot on. It's called the double envelopment and the Germans actually used it in the second world war to great effect. It was likely used beforehand as well but not sure where and when. But yeah, the first instance of it in history is Hannibal at Cannae in Southern Italy around about 215 B.C. He had 25,000 men mostly mercenaries (Gauls, Spaniards, Africans) who didn't speak the same language so the feat was truly amazing. He must have had some charisma about him. He defeated an army of 80,000 Romans, comprehensibly, and not just any hotch-potch Roman army, they sent the best of the best against him. He's easily my favourite commander. How did this thread get on to this?

Seems a few thread in the music and entertainment section turn to war history

[1eyedog]

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Seems a few thread in the music and entertainment section turn to war history

Blame that on Twodogs

[ledge]

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War history is entertainment isnt it?
It is ANZAC week

[ledge]

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I as a kid loved having Beano comics on my bedside table, absolutely loved being in England as far as comics go, wish they were more common here.
I remember a comic shop in Footscray many years ago i used to go into, swapping old for new, it was near the gun shop in Barkly St.

[hujsh]

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War history is entertainment isnt it?
It is ANZAC week

Maybe it needs it's own sub-section

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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My bedside table is my bookshelf, haha but the one on top which I am reading at the moment is "Kindom of Fear" by Hunter S. Thompson.
Its an autobiography from the journalist. "It's an unrestrained, uncensored account of fast living, hard drinking and unimaginable drug taking; of road trips, girls, guns, bikes and being accused of trying to kill Jack Nicholson".

So far its alright, a bit all over the place, but you know.

Other recently finished books sitting there are A Clockwork Orange, Tully and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.

I think my books indicate i'm crazy and disturbed. Damn.

Just finished reading that last week. Hunter was a one of a kind.

I'm now reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward and alternating each night between it and old PJ O'Rourke book- Give War a Chance to break up the heaviness.

[BulldogBelle]

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Book Title - Look Again
Author - Lisa Scottoline
Rating - 8.5/10

A very good thriller, type of book that is very hard to put down.

It is about a woman called Ellen who is a journalist that comes accross a 'Have you seen this child'? flyer in the mail she is just about to throw it away when something makes her look again. The child in the photo staring back at her looks exactly like her adopted son Will.

Being a journalist she sets about investigating and uncovering clues that endanger her life and that of her son's.

I wont give away the ending incase anyone is interested in reading it.

[comrade]

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Currently reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - a collection of short stories about a fictitious group of foot soldiers set in the middle of the Vietnam War.

Highly recommend it.

[hujsh]

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Currently reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - a collection of short stories about a fictitious group of foot soldiers set in the middle of the Vietnam War.

Highly recommend it.

We are actually studying it at school. Many of us found it to be an enjoyable book (including myself) and a mate of mine said it's the only book he's ever enjoyed.

It is confusing when answering questions partly because some bits are real and others are made up/exaggerated

[KT31]

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Reading Bill Brysons, A Walk in the Woods.
Its about Bill Bryson and mate Katz, describing there attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail.
Have found it quite enjoyable but a little slow in parts.
I heard a rumour they are going to make it into a movie with Tom Hanks.

It came with a second book by Bryson called Downunder, about his trip to Australia .
I will post when I have completed reading.

[BulldogBelle]

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At the moment I am halfway through reading I, Mick Gatto - so far so good. Gatto definitely is a colourful character. There is an excerpt from his book in The Herald Sun today if anyone wants to have a read and get a feel for the book.

Wayne Carey's explosive tell all book comes out 1st Nov, must remember to buy that one.