 RVwannaB 
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Posted: 11/12/2011 2:45:16 PM
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THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff |
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Powderfinger
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Posted: 11/12/2011 3:01:02 PM
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. The untold story of those who survived the US dust bowl disaster in the 1930s and what led up to it.
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dalesimpson
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Posted: 11/12/2011 3:03:09 PM
The Accidental Sales Manager.
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backbencher
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Posted: 11/12/2011 3:56:56 PM
Just finished the 7 Pillars of Wisdom, by TE Lawrence. It took me the whole deployment, illustrating how ubiquitous and reliable the internet is.
Gig 'em, backbencher |
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jjc155
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Posted: 11/13/2011 11:13:05 AM
The Law by Fredric Bastiat.
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Posted: 11/14/2011 9:21:09 PM
Originally Posted By backbencher:
Just finished the 7 Pillars of Wisdom, by TE Lawrence. It took me the whole deployment, illustrating how ubiquitous and reliable the internet is. Gig 'em, backbencher I got that one on my bookshelf waiting. I'm currently reading Roger Trinquier's, "Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency." |
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Posted: 11/19/2011 2:18:25 PM
Reading Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer
It's a short book calling out Greg Mortenson (writer of Stones for Schools and Three Cups of Tea), for being a fraud. He basically debunks a lot of Mortensons stories! Interesting read... |
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Aussie_E
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Posted: 11/19/2011 2:30:07 PM
Keep Your Head Down by Nathan Mullins
About a member of Australia's Second Commando Company Group tour of Afghanistan. |
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DuraToTheMax
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Posted: 11/20/2011 1:57:34 AM
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted: 11/20/2011 6:02:06 PM
The spy who loved us.
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elderboy02
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Posted: 11/22/2011 9:01:54 AM
In The Presidents Secret Service by Ron Kessler. It has stories from the agents who previously worked with the Secret Service. There are some good stories in there.
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CB1
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Posted: 11/22/2011 9:54:41 AM
I just started Thunder Run - The Armored Thrust Into Baghdad. I picked it up at half price books for $8.
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Posted: 11/22/2011 10:00:40 AM
Lone Survivor, but online courses have slowed my forward progression to a dead hault...
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Lumpy196
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Posted: 11/22/2011 10:10:08 AM
Originally Posted By CB1:
I just started Thunder Run - The Armored Thrust Into Baghdad. I picked it up at half price books for $8. That's an excellent book. I'm still reading: The Infantry's Armor |
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Mopseydocks6014
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Posted: 11/24/2011 6:43:12 PM
The GWB book.
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kongman74
Is that Possum Dual Wielding?
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Posted: 11/25/2011 3:37:56 AM
The War of the World by Niall Ferguson.
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Posted: 11/26/2011 12:34:12 AM
I'm about half way through Mark Stein's "After America".
I'm alternately laughing at Stein's quotes and screaming at how the Left is destroying America. |
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TigerForce
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Posted: 11/26/2011 3:38:13 AM
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II (1973)
They sure did kill a lot of people... |
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Posted: 11/27/2011 7:25:17 PM
Just finished The Moro War - How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913 by James R. Arnold.
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Posted: 12/11/2011 9:31:50 AM
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillion Linky An interesting read, it was much better than I thought it was going to be. If you are interest in the international politics or the US-China relationship you will enjoy it. |
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Posted: 12/11/2011 5:16:22 PM
[Last Edit: 12/11/2011 5:19:05 PM by Bunn19]
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
I haven't finished it yet, but everything that I've read seems pretty legitimate. No crazy alien theories or anything, just a bunch of info from recently declassified documents. Anyone that is interested in the history of the SR-71 or its predecessor the A-12 Oxcart and other nuclear test and clandestine happenings of the Cold War will like this book. ETA: the book was given to me by a friend who is a retired IBM salesman and PhD physicist who used to sell test equipment to Los Alamos and other labs during the Cold War days. He seemed to really like the book... |
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Posted: 12/19/2011 5:58:52 PM
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda
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Posted: 12/19/2011 11:33:26 PM
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
SPOILER.....DON'T READ THIS IF YOU INTEND TO GET THE BOOK. I can't recommend this one. I wanted a serious "as much as possible" history of Area 51. The history portion is only semi-satisfying, with what I think was an transparent attempt to indict the government in general, the CIA, the Air Force, and just about every private contractor company who ever had anything to do at Area 51, and the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC and the atomic tests of the 40 through the 70's had little to do with Area 51 but she threw it in anyway. The worst was the authors take on the "little gray men" who supposedly crashed a flying saucer near there. Instead of a conspiracy theory about aliens, the author concocts a bizarre loony toon conspiracy theory that Joesph Stalin had Doctor Mengle build him some deformed children to look like aliens, packed them into a flying saucer designed by the Horton brothers, powered by a mysterious power source that's never been seen again, and had it crash in the most isolated place in America to frighten the American people. Her source for this "unique" story is a single unidentified, unverified man who supposedly worked at Area 51. |
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Heuristic
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Posted: 12/25/2011 11:54:01 PM
I just started "Where men win glory" by Jon Krakauer.
The Pat Tillman story...sounds promising so far. |
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Posted: 12/26/2011 8:48:10 AM
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
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Posted: 12/26/2011 6:54:31 PM
Chuck Yeager's Autobiography.
Great Book |
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