Well, I've ripped through Quartered Safe Out Here. Given the recent commentary regarding the movie 300, I found it interesting that Fraser related that the 14th Army was the most ethnically diverse since Xerxes. Good stuff, that, all the way through. From his writing, you get a good feel for not only the peacetime Army (more McAuslan's line) but the wartime Army, and not the 'top down' view but that of the grunt on the ground. Still waiting delivery of A Connecticut Yankee . . .

I've made scant progress with The Steel Bonnets, and I'm sure its my fault. Probably as a distant descendant of the Isles I didn't receive quite the attention to British history that I ought have. The very newness of it all makes for slow slogging. (And how many Jock Armstrongs WERE there, anyway?)

Definitely going to have to pick up The Candlemass Road in the most immediate!