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Long overdue attempting this epic

Hands on. That's what he practised and preached. 50 years of management experience is great to call upon, but I do suspect some more academic theory would have allowed him to scale up to the Apollo and ISS era in NASA slightly better. What clearly was visible was when the vision as clear, execution is paramount, and total commitment yields results. Lots of good practical lessons for managers today however. Being tough and competent is not optional if you want that high performance team

3 stars as the book does lull in parts, but it does have a strong finish

Great biography of CliffyB I read for some work inspiration. Lots of good lessons

Where to begin? Nick Lloyd here has out shone his at times dry western front with a tour de force blow by blow account of the eastern fronts. Poland, Serbia, Romania, Italy, of course Russia and its revolution and the central powers' heights of victory in the east. You can scarecely believe things end like they did for the entente in November 1918 in even March 1918. Full of quotes bringing a touch more life and human touch to the generals and emperors who are clearly flawed humans. Cannot wait for his third book on this already, though I suspect 2027

220k words. A biggie

I've the 4th edition from 1963 that I found in a charity shop, seeing as I'm off to Argyll soon it would be rude not to!

Big epic, but have been looking forward to it since finishing The Western Front last year

A quick little read in between some of my behemoths. Started strong with an intriguing main character but petered out at the last pages after the bib reveal

Well, this has it all - transhumanism, leadership, politics, wars, ethics. Written in Herbert's, even after 6 novels, rather challenging prose and with little brevity; the last 100 pages are page turners indeed. Will have to see what Brian and Kevin did also with notes about #7. But maybe next year

HG Wells was truly visionary. Almost written for the silver screen, this holds up well by today's standards though fails a bechdel test. Left me wondering indeed what the future may hold, but probably not cannibalism communism