Guess this is already on your bookshelf?
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Rendezvous with Destiny.
Guess this is already on your bookshelf?
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No, not yet read, yes, I need to download or buy these! Thanks for showing! Most of my reading I do by e-reader nowadays, so I can smuggle with fontsizes and fool myself I don't need glasses. But a disadvantage is that it is harder to switch between notes and the story, or take a good look at the pictures without resizing the pages, which takes quite a time on my Kobo. But these two titles indeed were mentioned in the books as a must-read, so no I have a good reminder. Thanks!
Martin3, I'm guessing you are a little younger than me as I've always loved books (I'm always on the hunt for book shops or old books when I'm on vacation). I prefer a real book to reading it from my iPad.
Expand your library and enjoy hunting out more history to read.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I love the real paper! I have quite a propaganda brochure and book collection and a library full of reference works. But it is the enormous amount of WW2 history books and vet stories I prefer on the e-reader. The huge bulk I like to read but cannot store.by BlackCat1982
The e-reader also helps a lot because 2 years ago I had, don't know the English term, but Google says a vitreous body detachment. In both my eyes. With a few months, I get a cataract surgery and the eye fluid will be cleaned of collagen floaters. My vision has deteriorated rapidly. But two fingers are enough to adjust the font size and I can fool myself as if I am still reading without glasses! That is the reason I got quite attached to the less romantic e-reader. But nothing beats a real book, I absolutely second that! (54 years by the way!)
Thanks for your explanation Martin3. I'm sure many here will join me in wishing you good luck in your surgery and that your eyes are sorted. I'm 59 by the way.
Just finished:
Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler's Photographer, by Heinrich Hoffmann.
I started it with mixed feelings. I expected yet another book about Hitler, but it turned out differently. It is truly an almost apolitical book, and of course Hoffmann wants to appear more innocent than he was, but the story really gives a different view of the entire period than the 'official' historians did. Although Hoffmann says he has never been political, he was a party member before the Führer himself. On the other hand, during the Red Revolution, he could just as easily wear a red armband, as long as he could take photos. He was very opportunistic, that is a fact!
I found it a pleasant book to read. The reflections in the double introduction are well motivated and valuable to read first.
I think I can recommend it!
Just finished this... well worth the time to read it...
Bob
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