Bookshop haul

 Yesterday we popped into Hatchlands in Surrey for a quick dogwalk and lunch on our way back from some shopping.  One of the bonuses is that it has a small but pretty good 2nd hand bookshop onside (as well as selling very nice cheese & onion pasties in the cafe!)

I managed to pick up a nice selection of books

I've always been a big fan of CV Wedgwood's history books and was really pleased to see a Folio Society edition of her Thirty Years War.. a couple of years ago my son gave me a similar FS set of her English Civil War trilogy.

They also had a Folio Society editon of All Quiet on the Western Front which I gave to my son.  He has an decent collection of FS Society books and occasionally makes a bit of a profit buying and selling them.  Neither of us have read this before so it may be staying for a while.

Finally I picked up Anthony Beevor's account of the Crete campaign... something I know little about so I'm looking forward to reading this.  I funny his books very accessible, although I did give up on his Russian Revolution book... to many "something-ovich's" and confusing political parties for me to keep track of!!