TheKnightIrish

Some secondhand Crimean reflections arrived yesterday. Again no idea if it’s any good but it looked interesting… 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 🇮🇹 📚 #histbookchat

Some secondhand Crimean reflections arrived yesterday. Again no idea if it’s any good but it looked interesting… 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 🇮🇹 📚 #histbookchat

A Revolutionary War pick up from another secondhand book shop… #histbookchat

A Revolutionary War pick up from another secondhand book shop… #histbookchat

Another charity shop find: a signed book about the King’s Dragoon Guards at Waterloo 💂 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 #histbookchat

Another charity shop find: a signed book about the King’s Dragoon Guards at Waterloo 💂 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 #histbookchat

Tonight I’ve moved on to the shambles that is the Revolutionary French Navy with an excellent white Bordeaux but then Chateaux George is run by an Englishwoman… #readingndrinking #histbookchat

The most two recent volumes of the Journal of American Revolution have arrived over the last few days. Now to find 2017 and work backwards… 🇺🇸 📚 🇬🇧 #histbookchat

The most two recent volumes of the Journal of American Revolution have arrived over the last few days. Now to find 2017 and work backwards… 🇺🇸 📚 🇬🇧 #histbookchat

Really looking forward to this read.

19th Century grand strategy? Yes please.

Saturday’s haul was a beautifully rebound (I strongly suspect anyway) Lord Chatham: Pitt and the Seven Years War by Sherrard 📚 #histbookchat

Saturday’s haul was a beautifully rebound (I strongly suspect anyway) Lord Chatham: Pitt and the Seven Years War by Sherrard 📚 #histbookchat

Tonight’s reading is a battered secondhand copy of Brian Lavery’s “Jack Aubrey Commands” with some Armagnac no doubt liberated from a Bonapartist who had no further use for it… #readingndrinking #histbookchat

Using my time in the Munich Cricket Club fruitfully drinking dark German (but not Prussian) beer and reading the slightly battered latest from Waterloo Association… 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

When you find She Who Must Be Obeyed in @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social worshipping at the foot of the one decent non-Irish British General of the SWW. I feel attacked!

A compilation of 18 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet

Look forward to August!

Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the 18th century scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/

#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read #18thc

A Helion books clearance sale trio has arrived. It’s very 19th century 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 🇦🇹 🇮🇹 🇷🇺 📚 #histbookchat

A Helion books clearance sale trio has arrived. It’s very 19th century 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 🇦🇹 🇮🇹 🇷🇺 📚 #histbookchat

Some historical fiction from the Iberian peninsula today: first from the War of the Spanish Succession and second from Wellington’s peninsular campaigns… 📚

There are certain authors that, when you see a book of theirs you’ve never heard of, you buy it anyway without much investigation because you know it’s probably worth your time. Thus I bought another Tim Blanning over the weekend in a secondhand bookshop 📚 #histbookchat

There are certain authors that, when you see a book of theirs you’ve never heard of, you buy it anyway without much investigation because you know it’s probably worth your time. Thus I bought another Tim Blanning over the weekend in a secondhand bookshop 📚 #histbookchat

More books from the Osprey Book sale: musketeers, rough riders and cacadores… 📚 🇵🇹 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 #histbookchat

More books from the Osprey Book sale: musketeers, rough riders and cacadores… 📚 🇵🇹 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 #histbookchat

Two more volumes from my era in The Rise of Modern Europe series landed recently. The series seems rather good.. 📚 #histbookchat

Two more volumes from my era in The Rise of Modern Europe series landed recently. The series seems rather good.. 📚 #histbookchat

Gone a bit overboard with the Ken Trotman Seven Years War reprints, but they’re easier to come by than decent originals… 📚 #histbookchat

Gone a bit overboard with the Ken Trotman Seven Years War reprints, but they’re easier to come by than decent originals… 📚 #histbookchat

As promised a further contribution to the Napoleonic Wars memoirs section of my library and a further contribution to the Gareth Glover Canada trip 🫡📚 #histbookchat

As promised a further contribution to the Napoleonic Wars memoirs section of my library and a further contribution to the Gareth Glover Canada trip 🫡📚 #histbookchat

Yesterday’s deliveries: the Buckley bio and the Buckley button! Now to avoid accusations of bias if someone could please point me in the direction of a Vidal for Congress button please! 🤣 📚 #histbookchat