JACKIE COLLINS IS FUNNY !

well i think my book has to be the most horrific out of the bunch so far.

 

"Sgt. Clarence 'Pilgrim' Robertson had a gaping wound in the upper right corner of his forehead. He was walking crazily in the water. Then I saw him get down on his knees and start praying with his rosary beads. At this moment, the Germans cut him in half with their deadly crossfire."

 

A shell burst between them. "It took Gillingham's chin off, including the bone, except for a small peice of flesh. He tried to hold his chin place as he ran toward the shingle. He made it and Bill Hawkes and I gave him his morphine shot. We stayed with him for approximately thirty minutes until he died. The entier time he remained conscious and aware that he was dying"

 

(the shell was from a German 88)

 

There is worse in the book but i wont put that on. These were accounts of troops that made it on Omaha beach in the landings on D-Day.

nice

oh charming....

 

they went through pure hell. there is one case where 32 troops all died on the LCT. Which is the boats with the ramps at the front. None of them got off as they were all cut down by machine gun fire.

 

That is so saddening. But to actually take the beach under these circumstances is pretty close to a miracle.

lord of the rings trilogy :X

Well Im over the other side reading an account of the battle of stalingrad.

In a nutshell it was cold,lots of people died and the russians and the germans did'nt particularly like each other much.

Those crazy nazi's eh,what are they like.

i don't think the russian's particular liked their officers either

just read this in the book i'm reading, pretty nice :

 

Otlowski picked up a rifle, ammunition belt, and helmet "and scooted up across the beach to the seawall." He saw a young solider walking behind it, with a big roll communication wire on his back. A lieutenant spotted the soldier and called out, "Oh, boy, do we need that. Sit down right here. Give me that wire."

 

The solider replied, "I can't, Lieutenant. What will I do with this?" In his right hand he was carrying his left arm. Otlowski helped get the wire off his back, gave him some morphine, and yelled for a medic.

 

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landing on Omaha beach would of been like knocking on the door of hell and asking can you come in.

Andy McNabb - Last Light

i'd be reading: antibody production, lecture notes on immunology, introducing immunology, essential immunogentics, immunology and antibody adsorption of the gut

 

have a guess what i'm doing an essay on?

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

 

Player Of Games is a very fine book. Let me know what you thought of it when you finish.

hehe - I'm now reading the new report on AIDS... guess what my essay's about?!

Im reading a tutorial on VB in Excel cause I dun have a fookin clue how to make a log in screen in excel, blah...

 

Im also reading some documentation so that I can get my user requirements done for this stupid spreadsheet...

excel peice of piss, lol. although looking into another book of mine it looks like i'm gonna be using it with XML