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Originally Posted by mattyb 
My dad got two years of the Economist from me for Christmas. He never stops saying what a good present it was. Only £160 as well. I may get myself a subscription.
I have been reading it for over ten years now and have subscribed around half that time. The website is a great addition as you can search full articles from back issues. I used to stockpile the printed editions, but now I give them away to others to read after I have read them from cover to cover.
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Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
I am retired Navy and love reading Navy history. This is the best one of the ones I've read...
To Shining Sea
Not to bring this thread back from the dead, but I finally finished this book and it was excellent. The book isn't just informative, but extremely well written and a joy to read.
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Sweet. Glad you liked it. 
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SSharon, thank f**k that you didn't finish earlier. I ordered about £100 of books from Amazon.co.uk a few days ago. If you had finished earlier and updated this thread earlier, I would have trebled my purchase.
Cheers.
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Originally Posted by mattyb
SSharon, thank f**k that you didn't finish earlier. I ordered about £100 of books from Amazon.co.uk a few days ago. If you had finished earlier and updated this thread earlier, I would have trebled my purchase.
Cheers.
Haha!
As thanks I hope you share some of the titles you just bought. I have found MacNN a great place for book recommendations.
While I was in the middle of reading To Shining Sea I read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. I am now reading Freakonomics, which coincidentally has a few words of praise by Malcolm Gladwell right on the cover.
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Explanation required me thinks.
I like Anthony Beevor and my dad does as well. I read Freakonomics by Levitt and found it interesting reading. The others come recommended and the biographies are for my mother.
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 by Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches by Harry Patch, Richard Van Emden
Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War by Henry Allingham, Dennis Goodwin
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
Dear Fatty by Dawn French
Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography by Jo Brand
Where Was I?!: The World According to Wogan by Terry Wogan
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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