Profpointy
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A few books on the go at the moment
Dreadnought to Daring is a rather scholarly series of chapters covering various naval subjects as they were debated in the Naval Review, an internal publication circulated amongst naval officers. The chapters cover the historic thinking, as described in the NR, for various subject areas, more often than not organisational rather than technical. A hell of lot of work has gone into this by the various historians trawling through the pages, and it is well written but rather on the dry side even for me. It was a fiver rather than the original £35
Just arrived after a long wait for my pre-ordered copy from the tank museum. At first glance a really interesting and exceptionally well illustrated account the Sherman tank, its history, and numerous variations including the engineering vehicles and D-day "funies" as well as the half dozen or more distinct gun tanks. Arguably the best overall tank of the war all things considered. Worth remembering when comparing with the tiger (only some 2000 made of Tiger 1 plus Tiger 2) that the 50,000+ Shermans were more than every type of German tank and assault gun put together.
And finally a proper physics book. Trying to re-learn general relativity. I never had any great difficulty with the concepts but struggled with the tensor calculus and the co-ordinate transformation stuff needed to make any real predictions. The book does cover the mathematical basis for actually doing general relativity and I'm ploughing fairly sucessfully through the coordinate transformation chapter, though I have had to re-read a few sections if I've missed a nuance. Reasonably accessible to someone with, say A level maths or better.
Dreadnought to Daring is a rather scholarly series of chapters covering various naval subjects as they were debated in the Naval Review, an internal publication circulated amongst naval officers. The chapters cover the historic thinking, as described in the NR, for various subject areas, more often than not organisational rather than technical. A hell of lot of work has gone into this by the various historians trawling through the pages, and it is well written but rather on the dry side even for me. It was a fiver rather than the original £35
Just arrived after a long wait for my pre-ordered copy from the tank museum. At first glance a really interesting and exceptionally well illustrated account the Sherman tank, its history, and numerous variations including the engineering vehicles and D-day "funies" as well as the half dozen or more distinct gun tanks. Arguably the best overall tank of the war all things considered. Worth remembering when comparing with the tiger (only some 2000 made of Tiger 1 plus Tiger 2) that the 50,000+ Shermans were more than every type of German tank and assault gun put together.
And finally a proper physics book. Trying to re-learn general relativity. I never had any great difficulty with the concepts but struggled with the tensor calculus and the co-ordinate transformation stuff needed to make any real predictions. The book does cover the mathematical basis for actually doing general relativity and I'm ploughing fairly sucessfully through the coordinate transformation chapter, though I have had to re-read a few sections if I've missed a nuance. Reasonably accessible to someone with, say A level maths or better.
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