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Posted: 11/12/2020 9:22:01 PM EDT
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Finished this up on Monday. I was a little worried it might just go on and on and bore me. Thoroughly enjoyed it and ordered another of the author’s books yesterday.
 Read this over the last 3 days. It was amazing to hear what the expedition went though and survived. I was cold the whole time reading it.  I’m starting this book now.  |
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Posted: 11/13/2020 9:10:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/14/2020 9:08:24 AM EDT
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Impact by Leser Nichols. It's about the 10th Armored Div.
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Posted: 11/14/2020 8:56:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: mPisi]
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I have read the series and the kickstartered 4th book is in my queue. Robert Kroese's Dream of the Iron Dragon, book 1 of the series about vikings in spaaaaaace, is available free on Kindle for a short time:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078WLB2CR/ref=as_li_ss_tl |
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Posted: 11/16/2020 2:20:08 PM EDT
[#5]
When Violence is the Answer
by Tim Larkin |
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Posted: 11/16/2020 6:00:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/16/2020 9:28:53 PM EDT
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The good stuff: Now listening to book 2 in Marko Kloos's new Palladium Wars series, called Ballistic. I really enjoyed the first book, the setting after a major war, told from several points of view, was very interesting to me. Book 2 looks just as good from a story perspective.
The bad: different reader for the audiobook! Half the story is about the 5 different human-occupied planets and their cultures. The book 1 reader had excellent, consistent accents for each group, with differences between people within each group. I think some of this is in the text, but the reader was excellent. Book 2 reader adds little such flavor. Still worth listening to, but a good example of what a good presentation can add to a story. |
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Posted: 11/20/2020 11:16:56 PM EDT
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About Face, then Ordinary Men, and now Gulag Archipelago.
What next? |
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Posted: 11/21/2020 12:46:57 PM EDT
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Captain's Share by Nathan Lowell, it's part of a 9 book series about Solar Clippers. Starts with quarter share, when the MC is an apprentice.
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Posted: 11/22/2020 5:19:40 PM EDT
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I very rarely read fiction, but I am currently reading "The Dog Stars" at the recommendation of this guy.
Have some nits to pick with it, but overall, I like it. . post-lethal flu and blood disease USA where protagonist lives in a former"community" airport and flys his 1956 Cessna 182 around scouting for food, fuel, motor oil, etc and his "gun nut" fellow survivor helps him stave off attacks from predatory individuals and groups who stumble into "their" AO. . . Published in 2012. |
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Posted: 11/23/2020 2:44:26 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/23/2020 3:30:33 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2020 10:16:26 AM EDT
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The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 11/28/2020 10:34:18 AM EDT
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Doctors From Hell
By Vivien Spitz The horrific account of Nazi experiments on humans |
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Posted: 11/29/2020 6:22:26 PM EDT
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Just finished Frank Sisson's I Marched With Patton. It's cowritten by Robert Wise who likely injected a lot of material that a ground pounder would not be aware of. Anyway, while half asleep and watching some PoWs, a Geman soldier came up to ask him not to leave his rifle so far away lest it be taken. Sissons grabbed an axe, jumped up and threw the ax at the tree the rifle was leaning against. The ax planted itself right by the rifle. All the Germans looked at him with wide eyes and the friendly PoW who warned him sheepishly walked away. Anyway, word got out and Sissions was on leave in Paris when he found out that he had been transferred from a field artillery unit to a MP unit (good reflexes did that). While as a inspector MP, he had to check out a dead body in a morgue and wondered what was behind a locked cold room. He opened it and discovered steaks and partially dismembered human bodies. The Berliners were turning cannibalistic to feed themselves. See pages 250-1.
I knew about the Leningraders during the Siege resorting to cannibalism as with the Italians captured at Stalingrad (See Walter Craig's Enemy At the Gates), and the Japanese to their own men or American avaitors but this was new to me. |
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Posted: 11/30/2020 10:48:20 AM EDT
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Finished Graziano's A Patriot's Memoirs of World War II.
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Posted: 11/30/2020 9:36:01 PM EDT
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The Practicing Stoic
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Posted: 12/1/2020 11:13:14 AM EDT
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rereading A Desert Called Peace
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Posted: 12/1/2020 10:00:57 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 1057]
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Just finished Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
About Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight who were kidnaped by Ariel Castro in Cleveland. And I Heard You Paint Houses About Frank Sheeran’s admission that he killed Jimmy Hoffa |
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Posted: 12/2/2020 12:09:35 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Just finished To Innsbruck and Back & Tiger Battalion 507. The Tiger I had a tough time against the JS-II. At over 1500 metres, their shells would bounce off. The Tiger I had to wait until it was under 1k metres before its 88/L56 could destroy a JS-II. Faster reloading (JS-II had to have the shell loaded and then the powder charge), superior optics, training and tactics gave the Tiger men an edge. Battalion was pulled out by Guderian (kept from Himmler's clutches), rearmed with Tiger II and sent to fight the Americans.
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Posted: 12/2/2020 10:30:05 AM EDT
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In the Rising Sun.
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Posted: 12/2/2020 10:39:15 AM EDT
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I'm re-reading "The Last Kingdom" series of historical novels set during the reign of Alfred the Great and afterwards, by Bernard Cornwall.
I got into them after watching the Netflix series based on the books. 
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GA, USA
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Posted: 12/2/2020 12:08:16 PM EDT
[#23]
The Horn of Africa
by Philip Caputo |
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Posted: 12/2/2020 12:22:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Group9: I'm re-reading "The Last Kingdom" series of historical novels set during the reign of Alfred the Great and afterwards, by Bernard Cornwall. I got into them after watching the Netflix series based on the books. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51b5YG6Y1rL._AC_UL600_SR399,600_.jpg I was looking at that too, after I saw this wargame session:  Capturing Alfred the Great Wargame |
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Posted: 12/2/2020 1:48:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Powderfinger]
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Very Willing Griffin.
Willing Griffin was David Blagden's 19' sailboat he raced in the 1972 Original Single-handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR). The shortest boat ever entered at the time, this being the 4th race held since 1960. He placed 37th out of 55 boats entered. 10th place overall with handicap applied. |
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Posted: 12/2/2020 4:19:17 PM EDT
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The Twelve Caesars-Suetonius
I, Claudius-Robert Graves |
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Posted: 12/3/2020 9:01:23 AM EDT
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Apollos Arrow by Nicholas Christakis.
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Posted: 12/3/2020 11:39:52 AM EDT
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The Time Life series on the Old West. This one is about the Gunfighters.
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Posted: 12/3/2020 11:28:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By misplayedhand: The Great Infuenza: The Story of A Real Fucking Pandemic Just bought this the other day and I can all but put it down. So far an excellent book! |
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Posted: 12/7/2020 7:40:16 PM EDT
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Given Up For Dead - about American PoWs at Berga POW camp.
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Posted: 12/10/2020 12:07:18 PM EDT
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Gordon Rottman's Soviet Rifleman
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PA, USA
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Posted: 12/10/2020 12:28:20 PM EDT
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The Third Option by Vince Flynn
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Posted: 12/10/2020 5:06:48 PM EDT
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Patton's Lucky Scout.
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Posted: 12/11/2020 2:32:31 PM EDT
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Patton: Ordeal and Triumph
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Posted: 12/11/2020 2:59:58 PM EDT
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Carnifex by Kratman
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Posted: 12/11/2020 11:44:21 PM EDT
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Late to the party, but I needed something to remind me about human resiliency.
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Posted: 12/12/2020 12:48:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By VitalSignsAbsent: Late to the party, but I needed something to remind me about human resiliency. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5172dBvaxAL._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg I read South! by Shackleton a few weeks ago. Incredible story. |
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Posted: 12/14/2020 6:47:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Ramsey118]
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The Big Book of Pain:
Torture and Punishment Through History by Mark P Donnelly and Daniel Diehl |
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Posted: 12/14/2020 7:16:04 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AR45fan]
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I am currently reading and transcribing the hundreds of letters my grandfather mailed to my grandmother during the war. Grandma saved them all I think.
 It is slow-going. 
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Posted: 12/15/2020 12:05:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AR45fan: I am currently reading and transcribing the hundreds of letters my grandfather mailed to my grandmother during the war. Grandma saved them all I think. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50721103182_7f819cede4.jpg It is slow-going. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50721103157_82c9e92b20.jpg that's amazing! |
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Posted: 12/17/2020 11:47:35 AM EDT
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Shogun
by James Clavell |
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Posted: 12/17/2020 7:52:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AR45fan]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ramsey118: Shogun by James Clavell I hated two things about Shogun. First: The story was great and I really wanted to roll through it quickly, but the names were so complicated I couldn't easily keep track of the characters. That slowed me down, which sucked. Second: The ending. But, that's a really cool book. Those guys that wrote those historical fiction epics in the '70s are really underappreciated. |
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Posted: 12/18/2020 9:55:16 AM EDT
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I put down the Patton book for Boris Gorbachevsky's Through The Maelstrom. Awesome post war account of a Soviet officer who post-war emmigrated to America and could write safely out of the reach of the NKVD/KGB. Not anti-Russian/Soviet but more honest.
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Posted: 12/18/2020 10:24:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AR45fan: I am currently reading and transcribing the hundreds of letters my grandfather mailed to my grandmother during the war. Grandma saved them all I think. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50721103182_7f819cede4.jpg It is slow-going. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50721103157_82c9e92b20.jpg Please transcribe them and annotate them for publication. You'll have to try to find out who his buddies were and contact them (if still alive) or their descendants. Get pictures & their story (just one paragraph). On places he names, tell a little bit about them and the events that happened there. Get it published (academic or Schiffer) - PLEASE. |
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Posted: 12/18/2020 1:15:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: gwitness]
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Kamikaze Hunter, Brit carrier pilots flying Corsairs on anti kamikaze missions in the Pacific.
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Posted: 12/18/2020 5:15:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Please transcribe them and annotate them for publication. You'll have to try to find out who his buddies were and contact them (if still alive) or their descendants. Get pictures & their story (just one paragraph). On places he names, tell a little bit about them and the events that happened there. Get it published (academic or Schiffer) - PLEASE. Thanks for the Schiffer idea. I am actually planning to self-publish this as an e-book. I didn't know about them. |
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Posted: 12/18/2020 5:52:53 PM EDT
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Phantom Lady, biography of Joan Harrison.
Harrison started as Alfred's Hitchcock's secretary. She quickly became his muse, constant companion, chief writer and production assistant for many years. She became the first female screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award. The early movie making process and the Hollywood studio system has always intrigued me. The book sheds a lot of light on the subject and there is a lot of insight into many personalities of the era. It was referenced by TCM host Eddie Muller. |
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Posted: 12/19/2020 11:11:13 AM EDT
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Gerhardt Thamm - Boy Soldier: A German Teenager at the Nazi Twilight
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Posted: 12/19/2020 10:39:33 PM EDT
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The Lotus Eaters by Kratman
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Posted: 12/20/2020 12:43:20 AM EDT
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
RIP John le Carre |
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