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[Eriugena]

Originally Posted by General Parmenion

Ancient inventions , by Peter James & Nick Thorpe

Interesting pic in your sig. I heard a military historian describe a Greek phalanx as a pin cushion whilst a Roman century was compared to a buzz saw. The pic really captures the sense of his image.

[General Parmenion]

My picture in my signature is of the Macedonian Phalanx.Upgrading of the previous Greek phalanx by Philip II.Philip introduced the 12 cubit (6 meter) sarissa, a wooden pike with metal tip, for use by his infantry in the phalanx. The sarissa, when held upright by the rear rows of the phalanx (there were usually eight rows), helped hide maneuvers behind the phalanx from the view of the enemy. When held horizontal by the front rows of the phalanx, it was a rather brutal weapon. People could be run through from 20 feet away, giving quite an advantage to the phalanx in hand-to-hand combat.

[ÅnÐReS]

Originally Posted by General Parmenion

Ancient inventions , by Peter James & Nick Thorpe

Great! There's a book in my house called "Inventions that changed the world" (i don't remember the author's name), it's been in my house since i was a kid and it never bored me. Very good read.


Right now i'm reading H.P. Lovecraft first works, from 1905 to 1920.

[Heretik]

Originally Posted by ÅnÐReS

Right now i'm reading H.P. Lovecraft first works, from 1905 to 1920.

H.P. Lovecraft rules! My favourite writer.

[Theobald]

"The Clash of Civilizations", Samuel P. Huntington



(I bought it one year ago or so and just had time to read it)

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

Reich of the Black Sun - Nazi Secret Weapons & The Cold War Allied Legend by Joseph P. Farrell. I'm a supressed technology freak.

[fael]

Felix Dahn-Ein Kampf um Rom

[Alkman]

Edward S. Curtis - The North American Indian (the complete portfolios)


800 pages and more than 2200 pages on North American Indians

[ÅnÐReS]

Originally Posted by Der Elsasser

(I bought it one year ago or so and just had time to read it)

Hehe... It happens.

I bought Plato's The Republic one year ago and i still haven't read more than 60 pages (more or less).

[Rusalka]

The Sunne in Splendor by Sharon Kay Penman. In fact I just finished it so I'm no longer reading it. It was a different take on -mainly- Richard III (Plantagenet), one that is not based on Tudor writers' and historians' accounts.

I'll start Going Postal by Terry Pratchett now for some lighter reading. I'm so depressed with the Wars of the Roses!

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Aeternitas

French book here too - Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324 by Emmanuel Le Roy La Durie. Montaillou was a village that was famous for its Cathar beliefs and a high level of heresy. The Church, of course, could not tolerate this so Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers planned an inquiry - the whole village was arrested and everyone were questioned about their lives and beliefs. The eeevil Inquisition strikes again

Funny. My grand father had this book. I read some passages a couple of years ago in my parents.

Bernard Clavel - Les colonnes du ciel (columns of the sky) : Some historic books about the plague and the 10 years war in Free County (a french spanish war ).
Colin Renfrew - "The Indo-European enigma : archaeology and language"

@Der Elsasser : Is it an online version of "Le camp des Saints" by chance? I'm looking for it, but can't find it in secondhand booksellers.

[Waarnemer]

Insomnia-Stephen King

[Theobald]

Originally Posted by M.Duchemin

@Der Elsasser : Is it an online version of "Le camp des Saints" by chance? I'm looking for it, but can't find it in secondhand booksellers.

You can buy it there :

http://shop.upsylon.com/cgi-bin/librediff/02258.html

[Perun]

Im reading two very interesting books by John Hellman

The knight-monks of Vichy France: Uriage, 1940-1945


http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASI...315320-2854441

From Publishers Weekly:

After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, the Vichy regime set up a school in an Alpine chateau at Uriage to train a new elite leadership. This tightly knit, quasi-religious community, the Ecole Nationale des Cadres, saw itself as the linchpin of a spiritual revolution that would restore the Catholic Church's prestige, neutralize the poison of permissive liberalism and usher in a "new Middle Ages," a communitarian, hierarchical France. Among the school's "knight-monks" or alumni and their close associates were many influential figures such as Hubert Beuve-Mery, founder of the newspaper Le Monde. In a dense, provoctive study, McGill University history professor Hellman strips away the image of Uriage as an idealistic academy, exposing its authoritarian, intolerant, anti-liberal, anti-democratic and racialist policies and agenda.

And The Communitarian Third Way, which is about the Ordre Nouveau of the inter-wars years and would later form the intellectual basis for the New Right of De Benoist(although ON's founder Alexandre Marc was a Russian jew who converted to Catholicism).


I have to admit Ive recently developed a deep fond for French political theory, especially its doctrines on nationalism and social Catholicism(both of which are strongly linked in the French psyche).

[Ederico]

In relation to books I do not really read one book at a time. However I am currently reading Drawwiet u Tradizzjonijiet Maltin (Maltese Customs and Traditions) in relation to books.

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Der Elsasser

You can buy it there :

http://shop.upsylon.com/cgi-bin/librediff/02258.html

22€ I could pay it only 4. Too expensive, unlike Raspail I'm poor. I do not give my money to an old Bourgeois who write in Le Figaro that this is the end.

[Breogan]

"Speeches" of Isocrates
"Anabasis of Alexander" of Arrianus
"The Jewish War" of Flavius Josephus

[fael]

Arthur Schopenhauer - Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung I