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Posted: 2/4/2018 8:51:29 AM EDT
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First With Most. It's a biography on Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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Posted: 2/20/2018 1:48:24 PM EDT
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This weekend I finished Nat Frankel's Patton's Best about the 4th Armored Div. and last night Darryl Young's The Element of Surprise about Juliet Platoon of Seal Team 1.
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Posted: 2/21/2018 11:23:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/21/2018 11:26:40 AM EDT
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I just finished "Ready Player One" and will start "Horse Soldiers" next.
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Posted: 2/21/2018 11:43:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Neomonk21:
I just finished "Ready Player One" and will start "Horse Soldiers" next. |
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Posted: 2/21/2018 11:57:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By elderboy02: Loved Ready Player One. Can't wait for the movie! |
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Posted: 2/21/2018 12:17:48 PM EDT
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David Earl Henard's Victory Stolen: The Perspectives of a Helicopter Pilot on the Tet Offensive and Its Aftermath.
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Posted: 2/23/2018 4:48:10 PM EDT
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Just finished one on Trump and reading Schipp's book on Crooks In Action.
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Posted: 2/24/2018 9:42:35 AM EDT
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E. Milby Burton's The Siege of Charleston.
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Posted: 2/27/2018 11:45:35 PM EDT
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Earl Hess' Kennesaw Mountain. It was a major battle where Confederate Joe Johnston's army stopped Sherman cold; until outflanked.
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Posted: 2/28/2018 7:49:00 AM EDT
[Last Edit: FudgieGhost1]
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The Mandibles---story of the economic collapse of the US, as told by/about an upper-middle class extended family in Brooklyn NY. No big gun battles, heroes, etc. but witty and observant about people and family. Very well, if densely written.
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Posted: 2/28/2018 10:21:51 AM EDT
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I just started Tier One on my Kindle.
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Posted: 2/28/2018 12:20:38 PM EDT
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Clockers by Richard Price who wrote for The Wire
https://www.amazon.com/Clockers-Novel-Richard-Price/dp/0312426186/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1519834765&sr=8-2 |
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Posted: 3/5/2018 10:39:14 AM EDT
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Left For Dixie: The Civil War Diary of John Rath.
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Posted: 3/5/2018 10:49:20 PM EDT
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Reminiscences of the 22nd Iowa Infantry by Lt. S. C. Jones of Co. A.
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Posted: 3/6/2018 10:41:48 AM EDT
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Campaigns of the 20th Iowa Infantry by J. D. Barnes
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MD, USA
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Posted: 3/7/2018 10:15:39 PM EDT
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. In the wake of the Revolution, a Russian nobleman is sentenced to a life of house arrest inside a ritzy Moscow hotel. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite books.
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Posted: 3/10/2018 11:35:26 AM EDT
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Marsh Byers' With Fire and Sword. It's about Byers' experience with the 5th Iowa.
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Posted: 3/11/2018 10:10:41 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Byers' book is a terrific read. He campaigns with Grant and is at Vicksburg. As part of Sherman's Army that attempts to lift the Siege of Chattanooga, he is captured at Tunnel Hill. Sidenote: Thomas' army was in a supporting role at Missionary Ridge but where Sherman's Army was stymied, Thomas' stormed up Missionary Ridge and drove off Bragg. Byers' is sent to various prisons and escapes to Atlanta where he is captured in Confederate uniform while trying to get back to Sherman whose army is besieging Atlanta. He is then sent to Charleston where a desperate escape is organized but the colonel in command loses his nerve, tells the Confederates and the prisoners never got the break out signal (though some prisoners on their own disarmed some guards - they prisoners had to return the guards' weapons). The colonel who betrayed his men was sent to another camp to keep from being mobbed. While incarcerated he writes the song, Sherman's March to the Sea which became a hit in the camp. The lyrics, which are sung to the tune of Red, White and Blue, is smuggled out in the wooden leg of an officer who is exchanged and it becomes a hit in the North. Eventually Byers' is imprisoned in Colombia, SC where he and a friend gain access to the garrett (attic) and hide there while the rest of the prisoners are marched off to keep them from Sherman's approaching army. Liberated, he is invited to join Sherman's staff and and made a courier to bring messages to Grant and Lincoln. He meets Grant at City Point (Virginia) and declines meeting Lincoln the next day (he elected to go home). Years after the war Byers' is appointed Ambassador to Switzerland. See if you can get it via inter-library loan. It is as good a read as Confederate John Worsham's One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry.
Now reading Just got John Hall's Above The High Water Mark: The Life and Letters of a Lawyer, Soldier, Farmer and Statesman. Great-Great grandson's publication of Stephen Corker's letters. Corker served in the Third Georgia Infantry and was captured at Pickett/Pender/Pettigrew Charge on the third day of Gettysburg. Already found an error. |
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Posted: 3/11/2018 5:22:35 PM EDT
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A Desert Called Peace by Kratman
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Posted: 3/11/2018 5:36:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/12/2018 10:50:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By misplayedhand:
Darkness at Noon |
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AR, USA
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Posted: 3/14/2018 3:01:16 AM EDT
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“A Monster Calls” by Patrick Ness Just finished
“Hillbilly Elegy” by JD Vance; 1/2 through “The Underground Railroad” by Colsum Whitehead; easy read |
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Posted: 3/14/2018 4:30:39 AM EDT
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12 rules for life
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Posted: 3/14/2018 12:28:12 PM EDT
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Purcell's This Jolly Little Gunboat: The USS Winona. It is the transcribed diary of Montgomery Griffis, USN.
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Posted: 3/16/2018 4:21:29 PM EDT
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Confederate "Tales of the War" In the Trans-Mississippi, Part One: 1861 by Michael Banasik. This is actually Vol VII of Banasik's compilation of first hand accounts and newspaper articles from the little publicized Trans-Mississippi region of the Confederacy. It's also the longest lasting part of the Confederacy and the last to surrender to the Union.
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Posted: 3/18/2018 11:04:39 AM EDT
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Confederate "Tales of the War" In the Trans-Mississippi, Part Two: 1862 by Michael Banasik.
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Posted: 3/18/2018 11:23:25 PM EDT
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^^^
I envy either your reading speed or the time you have to dedicate to it. I'm still working through Masters of the Field, that history of the 4th US Cavalry that I think you mentioned a while back. It was a bit dry at the beginning but now in the war years there are some really good parts with official accounts from both sides, plus letters and such from the lower ranks. Needs more maps though! |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 9:46:59 AM EDT
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Don Haigst's British Soldiers, American War. It's a collection of first hand accounts of British soldiers who fought in the Revolution. I'm going to stop reading it for now (only on page 30 or so) and go back and start taking notes. So many familiar names (Col. James Webster, Patrick Ferguson, etc.).
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Posted: 3/19/2018 9:53:33 AM EDT
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I’m in the middle of The Two Towers. My first time reading the triology
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Posted: 3/21/2018 3:54:57 PM EDT
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Reading for a 2nd time, the official book of AR15.com
Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken: Enemies Foreign and Domestic |
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Posted: 3/23/2018 8:49:18 AM EDT
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mPisi - I'm retired.
Confederate "Tales of the War" In the Trans-Mississippi, Part Three: 1863 by Michael Banasik. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 3/23/2018 8:52:22 AM EDT
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About Face, Hackworth
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Posted: 3/24/2018 12:49:55 PM EDT
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Rereading The Foundation Trilogy because someone here mentioned Hari Seldon in a thread...
Come join the Arfcom Book Club |
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Posted: 3/26/2018 11:36:15 AM EDT
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Confederate "Tales of the War" In the Trans-Mississippi, Part Four, 1864 by Michael Banasik.[
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Posted: 3/27/2018 6:58:28 PM EDT
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The Wooden Horse, by Eric Williams and Gregory Freeman.
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Posted: 3/27/2018 7:19:18 PM EDT
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Shogun by James Clavell.....to be followed by King Rat.
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Posted: 3/29/2018 9:05:49 AM EDT
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Unwritten Chapters of the Civil War West of the River, Vol. IV: MISSOURI IN 1861: The Civil War Letters of Franc B. Wilkie, Newspaper correspondentT. Edited by Michael Banasik. Started reading it yesterday. Highly readable so far.
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Posted: 3/30/2018 9:52:59 AM EDT
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I just finished reading Dan Simmon's The Terror, just in time to start the series on AMC.
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Posted: 4/1/2018 11:31:28 PM EDT
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Read the most violent twisted short story today. Wasn’t bad, kinda funny. Fucked up enough to share.
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Posted: 4/2/2018 12:00:09 AM EDT
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Unwritten Chapters of the Civil War West of the River, Vol. IV: MISSOURI IN 1861: The Civil War Letters of Franc B. Wilkie, Newspaper correspondent. Edited by Michael Banasik. Half-way through this book and then put it down for Parker's A Smack at the Boche. Parker publishes his Uncle Ronnie Turner's (unauthorized) diary which he kept while aboard the heavy cruiser HMS Hawkins while it was on patrol in the South Atlantic. Turner afterward was on shore assignment (hearing problems due to lack of hearing protection from the 7.5" main armament). Quick read and now back to Unwritten Chapters.
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Posted: 4/2/2018 11:05:45 PM EDT
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Hurricane: The Last Witnesses: Hurricane Pilots Tell the Story of the Fighter that Won the Battle of Britain, by Brian Milton. Author Milton interviewed 18 surviving Hurricane Pilots.
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Posted: 4/2/2018 11:08:02 PM EDT
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Sir Charles Oman's The Art of War in the Middle Ages.
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Posted: 4/3/2018 12:41:47 PM EDT
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"The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang.
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Posted: 4/4/2018 10:08:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jayford:
"The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang.  Richard Hillary's The Last Enemy. |
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Posted: 4/6/2018 12:57:26 AM EDT
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The Last Fighter Pilot by Brown and Yellin.
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Posted: 4/8/2018 8:04:04 AM EDT
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Williams' Chicago's Battery Boys. It's about a Civil War artillery battery sponsored by the Chicago Merchants' Exchange (not related to the modern group with the similar name).
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Posted: 4/14/2018 8:21:38 AM EDT
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Last night I finished Christopher E. Loperfido's Death, Disease, and Life at War: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865. Unlike other books that I've read, I was unaware that surgeons could be assigned to the picket line to ensure the health of the pickets. Other times Benton was detached from his regiment and worked at division hospitals.
Just started Scott Weidensaul's The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery & Endurance in Early Americas. |
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Posted: 4/14/2018 9:17:21 AM EDT
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Devils Night Dawning by Damien Black, best described as Game of Thrones meets The Exorcist.
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Posted: 4/14/2018 10:32:09 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Mak_380]
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Monster Hunter memoirs: Saints earc just dropped. Rereading the first two, before I read #3.
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