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Posted: 5/10/2008 8:49:33 AM
If you likes The Price of Glory, YOu may like A savage War for PEace also by Horne ist is about Algiers also Dennis Winters Deathsmen I think thats the title is a great read I just finished THe Last Season about Gary Magneson a back coutry Ranger for the NOS that disapeared |
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Posted: 5/15/2008 12:20:22 PM
Starting "Not A Good Day To Die" by Sean Naylor
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Posted: 5/15/2008 6:51:49 PM
"American Spartans The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq"
Its a great read, I've learned a lot. For example, did you know that the Marine Corps were the first to pioneer using helicopters to insert troops? I didn't. |
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Posted: 5/18/2008 12:37:38 PM
Just finished Hell on Belle Isle. It's the diary of J. Osborn Coburn of Co. I, 6th Michigan, who was captured in Charleston, Virginia and incarcerated at Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia. Cheerful and confident that he would be paroled, Coburn dies of starvation on Belle Isle and never marries the girl to whom he was engaged. His diary was returned to his father by the hospital steward who attended to him on his last days. It's all too common a story of an American PoW (either Union or Confederate) during 1864 when the exchange policy was largely abandoned (except in the case of the very sick and near dead).
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Posted: 5/22/2008 9:57:12 PM
Just starting the "Foundations of Freedom." Wilder Publications
A collection of: "Common Sense" "The Declaration of Independence" "The Articles of Confederation" "The Federalist Papers" and " The US Constitution" all in one book! Still Learning  |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 3:15:43 AM
Most recently, “Carnage and Culture”, basically a rebuttal to “Guns, Germs and Steel.” It is an excellent read. And a very good rebuttal to Jared Diamond's work..
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Posted: 5/23/2008 3:21:08 AM
Night Probe by Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt novels are always a good read. |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 8:22:15 AM
To the Sound of Musketry and Tap of the Drum. It's the Civil War letters of Harry Bartlett, Battery D, 1st Michigan Light Infantry. Bartlett was an artificier, equivalent to a technician in today's army. Artificiers included furriers, blacksmiths, carpenters, wheelwrights, saddlemakers, shoemakers and harness makers like Bartlett. His unit served with George Thomas whose division arrived too late for Shiloh. They were with Thomas when he advanced on Corinth, Mississippi and later with Rosecrans at Murfreesboro where they were sent to stop Wheeler's cavalry which was raiding the wagon train (and thankfully missed the bloodbath at Murfreesboro). They lost most of their guns at Chickamauga (5 out of 6) and were reequipped at Chattanooga during the siege.
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Posted: 5/24/2008 11:48:39 AM
I am now reading Cocaine an Unauthorized Biography. It gives a great look into the early history of coca leaves thus far, and explores the first users of cocaine thoroughly.
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Posted: 5/24/2008 11:51:58 AM
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Posted: 5/25/2008 2:25:45 PM
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I just got out of college....no more boring books I have to force myself to read! Wo0t!
Right now: Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race ETA: That was a damn good book!  On deck: Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power |
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Posted: 5/26/2008 9:33:43 AM
Year of the Hangman by Glenn F. Williams. It's about the expedition ordered by Washington against the Six Nations. Washington was tired of the Indian/Tory raids in New York and ordered General Sullivan not only to march through their territory but to destroy it. He burned towns, destroyed crops and wrought wholesale destruction that drove many Indians to starvation. War is Hell.
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Posted: 5/28/2008 5:10:41 PM
Just finished J.H. Elliott's "Empires of the Atlantic World."
Halfway through Richard Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." I'll probably read his "Dark Sun" next. After that, probably back to the XVIIth century. |
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Posted: 5/28/2008 5:23:32 PM
Just finished "On Call In Hell" - CDR Richard Jadick - about the battalion surgeon who traveled into Falluja during Operation Phantom Furry to set up a forward aid station in the middle of the battle. It was awesome and a quick read (only about 250 pages).
Also just finished Michael Yon's "Moment of Truth in Iraq". Equally good. |
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Posted: 5/30/2008 1:28:57 PM
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II
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Posted: 5/30/2008 1:39:53 PM
Rereading "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara.
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Posted: 5/30/2008 1:42:32 PM
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"Buck" Compton, Call of Duty
eta: done. good read |
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Posted: 5/30/2008 8:23:54 PM
Just started reading Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi. So far I've read 181 of the 1489 pages.
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Posted: 5/31/2008 5:33:42 PM
Just finished "Mig Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko"
Fascinating account of what life was like in the Soviet Union during the 50s/60s/early 70's. I had no idea those people lived like that.  Made the think the whole time I was reading how lucky I was to be born here; that is the greatest gift ever bestowed on me. |
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Posted: 6/4/2008 2:31:21 PM
Just finished Gettysburg: The First Day - Harry Pfanz and am currently reading Panzer Leader - Heinz Guderian. On deck is, 1776 - David McCullough.
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Posted: 6/4/2008 2:36:29 PM
Unintended Consequences
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Posted: 6/5/2008 2:34:35 PM
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I'm reading a signed copy of Beyond the Rhine by Donald R. Burgett,
I have already own and have read Currahee!, Seven Roads to Hell. All I am missing is The Road to Arnhem. These are great books and would recommend them to anyone. I picked this book to read for my US military History Class in college: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge |
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Posted: 6/5/2008 2:37:15 PM
I read Panzer Leader while I was in college, good book. |
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Posted: 6/5/2008 4:50:15 PM
almost done with Easy company soldier by Don Malarkey.
another good read |
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Posted: 6/5/2008 5:56:38 PM
I had to read that for my US mil history in college too! Hell of a book, really made me all the more pissed off that the Marines are giving Oki back to Japan. Sonofabitch Japs should be the ones moving all their people off that island, not us. |
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