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Reading 1923 by Mark Jones at the min, documenting the year running up to Hitler's failed coup. I had absolutely no idea the extent of the French occupation of the Ruhr that year, it's mad stuff in supposed peacetime

sounds interesting - think i have read some of his other books 

came across him from the Second Captains podcast actually, he had like an hour and a half convo with Ken Early on the book the other week which was a brilliant listen and I picked it up after that 

there's plenty of parallels with the world today as well, though I know some people really don't like when you suggest that 
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Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Good read charting the build up and aftermath of the Brighton Bombing.

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Got a Kindle for Christmas. The search function on the Kindle store is absolutely brutal to use. Unless you type in the book you specifically want, then browsing is a waste of time.

Will use e-books from the library instead.
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Borrowbox is an excellent app in fairness. Read days and nights in the GAA over Christmas, really enjoyed that. Reading “Six” at the moment.  Group of thirty something friends partake in a murder and the fall out from it 
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The Dirty War by Martin Dillon

Easy to dip in and out of this one as each chapter covers a different aspect of The Troubles, though there are a few criticisms. I'm reading the print version of this and the writing is so small it gives me migraines. Second of all, Dillon's biases permeate the entire book. Everything is written through the prism of justifying every decision the British government and army made in Northern Ireland as being in good faith, even when that was obviously not the case. He also goes over the top in his condemnation of the IRA while either skimming over or ignoring the context of RUC discrimination, collusion, loyalist paramilitary atrocities etc. As I near the completion of the book, something he wrote about the journalist Martin O'Hagan has aged particularly badly [O'Hagan was murdered after the book was published].

I would prefer Anne Cadwallader's Lethal Allies, a book that holds the British state to full account with an unvarnished telling of what happened in Northern Ireland.


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Dillon has written better books. “Political Murder in Northern Ireland”, which he co-authored with Denis Lehane, was a seminal work and one of the first to expose what was actually happening in the early years of the “ Troubles.” In later years “Shankill Butchers”, which was about the most vicious of the loyalist gangs of serial killers operating in the 70s, made his name and was a best seller. “ The Trigger Men”, whose subject was the most profilic hitmen in the various organisations, wasn’t bad either. “Lethal Allies” is an outstanding and accurate piece of work by Anne Cadwallader, extremely well researched.
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The miracle of castle di sangro by Joe mc ginniss

I’m only a few chapters in and I know a good few on here have read the book but it really is excellently written.mc ginniss is a fine writer and really sets the tone in the opening chapters.



Among the thugs by bill buford 

Another one that many on here have completed.it didn’t thrill me as much as I was expecting.some chapters like the European trips had me glued to the pages but others lost me,and I found myself breeze through the pages.buford rambles on a little for me but still a good read.
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Originally posted by JUICEBOMB JUICEBOMB wrote:

The miracle of castle di sangro by Joe mc ginniss

I’m only a few chapters in and I know a good few on here have read the book but it really is excellently written.mc ginniss is a fine writer and really sets the tone in the opening chapters.



Among the thugs by bill buford 

Another one that many on here have completed.it didn’t thrill me as much as I was expecting.some chapters like the European trips had me glued to the pages but others lost me,and I found myself breeze through the pages.buford rambles on a little for me but still a good read.
Miracle of CDS very enjoyable, won't spoil it but there are very peculiar and sad happenings as the season develops.....if you are interested in Italian football I would recommend "A season with Verona' (thinks that's its name). 
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Just finished Stefano Bloch's Going All City. Found it a very interesting read about his life as a graffiti artist in LA and his difficult upbringing.  Was timely at the moment with that tower in LA being worldwide news.
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Originally posted by Cabra Hoop Cabra Hoop wrote:

Originally posted by JUICEBOMB JUICEBOMB wrote:

The miracle of castle di sangro by Joe mc ginniss

I’m only a few chapters in and I know a good few on here have read the book but it really is excellently written.mc ginniss is a fine writer and really sets the tone in the opening chapters.



Among the thugs by bill buford 

Another one that many on here have completed.it didn’t thrill me as much as I was expecting.some chapters like the European trips had me glued to the pages but others lost me,and I found myself breeze through the pages.buford rambles on a little for me but still a good read.
Miracle of CDS very enjoyable, won't spoil it but there are very peculiar and sad happenings as the season develops.....if you are interested in Italian football I would recommend "A season with Verona' (thinks that's its name). 

The Dark Heart of Italy is also an enjoyable football/ politics book
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Originally posted by MC Hammered MC Hammered wrote:

Originally posted by Cabra Hoop Cabra Hoop wrote:

Originally posted by JUICEBOMB JUICEBOMB wrote:

The miracle of castle di sangro by Joe mc ginniss

I’m only a few chapters in and I know a good few on here have read the book but it really is excellently written.mc ginniss is a fine writer and really sets the tone in the opening chapters.



Among the thugs by bill buford 

Another one that many on here have completed.it didn’t thrill me as much as I was expecting.some chapters like the European trips had me glued to the pages but others lost me,and I found myself breeze through the pages.buford rambles on a little for me but still a good read.
Miracle of CDS very enjoyable, won't spoil it but there are very peculiar and sad happenings as the season develops.....if you are interested in Italian football I would recommend "A season with Verona' (thinks that's its name). 

The Dark Heart of Italy is also an enjoyable football/ politics book
Yep, read that a few years ago. The book Gomorrah on which the movie was based is well worth a read.The chapter on the fashion industry is an eye opener.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MC Hammered Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Feb 2024 at 9:37pm

Yeah funny enough that chapter stood out to me too. Crazy stuff 
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Five Families by Selwyn Raab is a great book about the American mafia. 

One of the chapters is about Joseph Massino, the first mob boss to cooperate in 2004. Massino was the guy who masterminded the three capos murder immortalised in a gruescome scene in the movie Donnie Brasco. Massino died in September. After he died it finally came out that he was living under the assumed name "Ralph Rogers" in Cleveland. During a trip to the city's casino in the late 2010s, Massino met someone who insisted that he recognised him. Massino, a morbidly obese and obviously Italian-American New Yorker, insisted the person was mistaken and he was in fact Ralph Rogers.

Another chapter is about Vincent Gigante, boss of the Genovese Crime Family, who was part inspiration for Junior Soprano's crazy act in The Sopranos. Gigante used to walk around Greenwich Village in a bathrobe talking to himself in a bid to fool the FBI into thinking he was senile. Like Tony Sirico [Paulie Walnuts in The Sopranos], he had a brother who was a priest.

Nothing sums up the downfall of the mob in America better than Joey Merlino, who despite being reputed to be the boss of the Philadelphia Crime Family, posts videos on YouTube, which is usually the preserve of rats like Sammy Gravano and Michael Franzese, the latter of whom did a speaking engagement in Belfast recently. They usually have guests on every episode. The one with Ric Flair is one of the most random things I've ever seen.
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