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finnfan Member Joined: Sep 2011  AR, USA Posts: 9 Feedback: 100% (20) Link To This Post	Posted: 11/2/2011 5:26:24 PM Good book. Lots of detail, lots of personal insight.
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HookMech Hookers and Blow Team Member Joined: Mar 2008  AFG Posts: 356 Feedback: 100% (13) Link To This Post	Posted: 11/20/2011 10:05:06 AM Dynamic of Destruction, Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. by Alan Kramer
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DanaHillen Member Team Member Joined: Jan 2006  MT, USA Posts: 2758 Feedback: 100% (79) Link To This Post	Posted: 11/20/2011 10:32:32 AM I just this morning finished "UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES" (by John Ross) second time I've read it.
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Posted: 11/21/2011 2:55:28 AM [Last Edit: 11/21/2011 2:56:16 AM by kalju] Actually reading two massive books at the same time: C.J. Chivers: "The Gun". and Ian Kershaw: "Hitler". - The Finnish transcription of "The Gun" sucks monkey balls (seems like the translator has no clue about weapon- and/ or ammo part names), but all in all it is an entertaining tale about the development of modern automatic weapons. - The "Hitler" is a thorough research with countless references, about the circumstances that made Hitler's dictatorship and the rise of the NSDAP possible. The book is at the same time very interesting yet boring, but I'm determined to read through it.

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sandblaster GO GATORS! GO TEBOW! Team Member Joined: Oct 2002  AFG Posts: 1450 Feedback: 100% (45) Link To This Post	Posted: 11/30/2011 11:17:04 AM Lions of Kandahar - awesome
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StraightSix Member Team Member Joined: Oct 2010  ME, USA Posts: 332 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 12/2/2011 12:26:50 AM Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
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lew Member Joined: Sep 2005  MI, USA Posts: 3624 Feedback: 100% (5) Link To This Post	Posted: 12/6/2011 1:57:42 PM Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula.
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DuraToTheMax Member Team Member Joined: Aug 2007  CA, USA Posts: 18722 Feedback: 100% (2) Link To This Post	Posted: 12/6/2011 11:26:08 PM The Gulag Archipelago
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TexasRifleman XM177E2 sight picture Team Member Joined: May 2006  TX, USA Posts: 6387 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 12/7/2011 12:31:04 AM
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Posted: 12/7/2011 12:43:13 AM Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold, by Michael Benanav. An American, who decides to ride with a camel caravan across Mali, from Timbuktu to the most desolate place in the Sahara, for salt. Doing it the way it has been done for over a thousand years, the author wanted to experience it first hand. The caravans are a dying way of life, being replaced by pickup trucks and backhoes. He finds places far out in the desert where the salt is still used as money, and he is offered a nine year old girl as a bride. Eye opening. Another library book, copyright 2006. Steve

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Posted: 12/28/2011 1:51:42 AM The Brereton Diaries by Lt Gen (ret.) Lewis Brereton A senior Army Air Forces officer, he served overseas pretty much continuously from November 1941 to summer 1945. It serves as a vehicle for him to justify his actions and leadership, as he was in charge during several controversies: commander of Far Eastern Air Forces when the Japanese destroyed US airpower on the ground in the Philippines, commander of forces during the Ploesti raid (with its heavy losses), Operation Cobra (where incorrect bombing killed some of our own troops), and Operation Market Garden (the bridge too far).

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cableguy221 I don't drink GLOCK-Aid, I take it intravenously. Team Member Joined: Sep 2004  TX, USA Posts: 9871 Feedback: 100% (4) Link To This Post	Posted: 1/3/2012 2:27:33 AM I just powered through the entire Sharpe series: good fucking read.
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medicmandan Moderator - Rocky Mountain HTF, Religion, History Moderator Joined: Jun 2002  UT, USA Posts: 18238 Feedback: 100% (11) Link To This Post	Posted: 1/8/2012 12:38:05 PM Until Tuesday: A Wouned Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him by Luis Carlos Montalvan
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03Springfield Member Joined: Oct 2003  WA, USA Posts: 153 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 1/8/2012 7:04:44 PM 1861 An excellent book about the polarizing of attitudes leading to the civil war.
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Genin Member Joined: May 2008  USA Posts: 1893 Feedback: 100% (5) Link To This Post	Posted: 1/11/2012 10:34:12 PM Great Speeches by Native Americans
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BePhreed Member Joined: Sep 2008  CA, USA Posts: 335 Feedback: 100% (24) Link To This Post	Posted: 1/17/2012 6:05:15 AM About to finish Stalingrad by Antony Beevor so I picked up his book on Normandy on iTunes which is enhanced for war era news reels and radio recordings (pretty cool IMO) to read while I'm in between classes and also have his book on the fall of Berlin for after that. Absolutely love his work. Anybody else read much of his work?
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medicmandan Moderator - Rocky Mountain HTF, Religion, History Moderator Joined: Jun 2002  UT, USA Posts: 18266 Feedback: 100% (11) Link To This Post	Posted: 1/24/2012 11:28:00 AM Blood From a Stone, The Quest for the Life Diamonds by Yaron Svoray.
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Posted: 1/25/2012 9:23:46 AM France, the United States, and the Algerian War by Irwin M. Wall Good read about Cold War politics, decolonization, the involvement of the US in European affairs, and the making of modern France. If ever there was an influential post-war conflict, I think it was the Algerian War, which had a huge part in shaping Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as we see them today.

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Posted: 2/8/2012 12:08:30 PM I'm half way through Lieutenant in Algeria by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. Excellent read. Fairly short. Sometimes, I have to remind myself the story is based on his experiences in Algeria, not Afghanistan or Iraq, in both of which we've done our usually counterinsurgency policy: get things mostly under control, and then say "screw it" and leave the job unfinished. Anyway, the themes in the book are equally applicable to most of the conflicts happening today.

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58shootist Member Joined: Mar 2011  CA, USA Posts: 91 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/12/2012 8:07:15 PM Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy, it's 1 of 3 of his I haven't read, awesome so far!
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happy_gopher Dirt Farmer Team Member Joined: Mar 2006  TX, USA Posts: 2285 Feedback: 100% (77) Link To This Post	Posted: 2/28/2012 10:02:51 PM The Guns of August hg
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Warspite closet nonconformist Team Member Joined: Nov 2001  TX, USA Posts: 2825 Feedback: 100% (48) Link To This Post	Posted: 3/4/2012 8:26:40 AM Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfisher. Pretty good read about Guadalcanal.
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Lootie23 A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte Team Member Joined: May 2009  LA, USA Posts: 9457 Feedback: 100% (8) Link To This Post	Posted: 3/4/2012 8:44:09 AM The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. By William L. Shiver
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vm1970 Member Team Member Joined: Jan 2009  CT, USA Posts: 537 Feedback: 100% (1) Link To This Post	Posted: 3/4/2012 8:48:01 PM Originally Posted By 58shootist: Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy, it's 1 of 3 of his I haven't read, awesome so far! Good book, his writing went downhill soon after that.
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medicmandan Member Moderator Joined: Jun 2002  UT, USA Posts: 18348 Feedback: 100% (11) Link To This Post	Posted: 3/4/2012 9:05:46 PM Prisoners of the Kaiser by Richard Emden Great book with mostly first hand accounts, most written close to 80 years after their release.
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