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Reply #45 on: March 02, 2019, 11:56:41 AM
Quote from: Bison on March 02, 2019, 11:38:17 AM
I haven’t read that book yet. Added to the list. Thanking for the enabling Bob.

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Reply #46 on: March 02, 2019, 12:02:37 PM
It’s the encouragement to empty my wallet I missed most about you guys.  >:(


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Reply #47 on: March 02, 2019, 12:09:21 PM
lol - since when did you need any encouragement from us...................

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Reply #48 on: March 02, 2019, 12:13:53 PM
Don’t make me culpable for my actions bob. That’s not how codependency works.


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Reply #49 on: March 02, 2019, 01:30:43 PM
 :blahblah: :biggrin:

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Reply #50 on: March 02, 2019, 01:34:17 PM
 ;D


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Reply #51 on: March 06, 2019, 07:35:02 PM
look what came today



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Reply #52 on: March 06, 2019, 08:09:51 PM
Awesome!


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Reply #53 on: March 06, 2019, 08:12:14 PM
Not bad for $13

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Reply #54 on: March 06, 2019, 08:16:07 PM
For sure. I’ll be interested to read you impressions.


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Reply #55 on: March 06, 2019, 08:51:15 PM
Looking forward to starting it. I have several books going already, but this one is now at the top of the stack.

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Reply #56 on: March 07, 2019, 06:56:02 AM
Excellent!

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Reply #57 on: March 07, 2019, 07:10:01 AM
I've become more and more interested in that time period because it's fascinating how you can trace WWI and WWII back to Napoleonic times. Maybe further. It's like unraveling a string and getting surprise after surprise.

I'd looked a bit more into it when I bought At Any Cost. I admit I had utter ignorance that the Germans captured Paris. I knew they won but didn't know the circumstances nor how deeply that conquest ran.

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Reply #58 on: March 07, 2019, 07:20:39 AM
Yep, the whole period from 1854 up to 1871 is indeed fascinating and i'm deeply interested in it. I now need to read a bit more about the Italian 3rd War of Unification.

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Reply #59 on: March 07, 2019, 08:04:17 AM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on March 07, 2019, 07:10:01 AM
I've become more and more interested in that time period because it's fascinating how you can trace WWI and WWII back to Napoleonic times. Maybe further. It's like unraveling a string and getting surprise after surprise.

I'd looked a bit more into it when I bought At Any Cost. I admit I had utter ignorance that the Germans captured Paris. I knew they won but didn't know the circumstances nor how deeply that conquest ran.

You can even trace it forwards up to The Four Years War!

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