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Posted: 9/3/2016 8:03:06 PM EDT
[#1]
Just got done with Legerdemain by James Heaphey.
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Posted: 9/4/2016 10:20:01 AM EDT
[#2]
Jim Rickards' The Big Drop.
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Posted: 9/14/2016 4:46:03 AM EDT
[#3]
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns, about selling heroin and cocaine at the intersection of Fayette and Monroe in West Baltimore in 1993. Eye opening, and the source material for the HBO series The Wire. The social disintegration shown here is incredible, and we are paying for most of it with our taxes.
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond. |
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Posted: 9/14/2016 1:22:13 PM EDT
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Memoirs of Maj. Gen. Riedesel. He served with Burgoyne at Saratoga and was captured there.
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Posted: 9/14/2016 7:52:12 PM EDT
[#5]
Brown Waters of Africa: Portuguese Riverine Warfare 1961-1974 by John P. Cann and Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980 by Peter Baxter
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Posted: 10/7/2016 8:48:47 PM EDT
[#6]
Zambezi Valley Insurgency: Early Rhodesian Bush War Operations by JRT Wood.
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Posted: 10/8/2016 10:26:48 AM EDT
[#7]
Pacific Payback, Stephen L. Moore. SBD aviators from Pearl Harbor to Midway.
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Posted: 10/26/2016 2:55:51 PM EDT
[#8]
Just finished Philip Magnan's Letters From the Pacific Front.
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Posted: 10/30/2016 10:39:56 AM EDT
[#9]
Just finished Into Infamy. It's the story of a Marine sniper platoon whose members were feted one day and crucified the next when the video was released showing them urinating the corpses of the enemy. The PC sh*t should not be applied to our warriors in combat.
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Posted: 11/3/2016 7:38:33 AM EDT
[#10]
Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 9:48:30 PM EDT
[#11]
Audey Murphy's To Hell and Back.
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Posted: 11/11/2016 9:11:05 AM EDT
[#12]
Gunning For the Enemy by Wallace McIntosh. McIntosh joins the RAF to escape poverty and to get three meals a day. During WW II he is a gunner aboard a RAF bomber and bags eight jerries.
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Posted: 11/17/2016 2:12:06 AM EDT
[#13]
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language : How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony
On the roots of the Indo-European language group, and how that language group spread to half of the modern world on horseback and in horse drawn wagons during the Bronze Age. Very dense and academic, with lots of archeology and linguistics used to illustrate pre-history, another library book. |
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Posted: 11/21/2016 10:56:42 PM EDT
[#14]
Almost finished with William Andrews' The Diaries and Letters of John T. Farnham. Farnham met and shook hands with Abe Lincoln and described his hands as cold and clammy. I shared this information with Dr. John Sotos (The Physical Lincoln) who thinks that Abe had Multiple Endocrine Neoplast Type II B Cancer. Dr. Sotos wanted the date and location andthis was provided later as well as a cross-reference with Lincoln Day-by-Day which confirmed the meeting date in 1864. The cold clammy hand is a physical symptom indicating a constriction of the blood vessels, another symptom of MENT IIB.
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Posted: 11/23/2016 7:35:07 PM EDT
[#15]
Joseph Byrd's Confederate Sharpshooter: Major William E. Simmons. I mentioned Wofford's sharpshooters in my book but this is the first full length treatment of the 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharp Shooters.
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Posted: 11/29/2016 8:19:34 PM EDT
[#16]
Fiat Paper Money: The History and Evolution of Our Currency by Ralph T. Foster
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Posted: 11/29/2016 10:16:09 PM EDT
[#17]
I'm reading Lynne Cheney's biography on James Madison. It is very good.
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Posted: 12/1/2016 5:56:31 PM EDT
[#18]
Selous Scouts: Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency Specialists by Peter Baxter
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Posted: 12/2/2016 10:45:00 PM EDT
[#19]
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Posted: 12/7/2016 7:07:20 AM EDT
[#20]
Just finished reading Pearl Harbor survivor Donald Stratton's All the Gallant Men. Stratton was aboard the USS Arizona when she blew and had burns all over his body. After being discharged, he re-enlisted and served aboard a destroyer that did picket duty against the Kamikaze. He was stateside when Japan surrendered.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 12/11/2016 5:35:48 AM EDT
[#21]
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn
Christianity and Western Thought, Volume One: From the Ancient World to the Age of Enlightenment, by Colin Brown Next: The Age of Enlightenment, A History From Beginning to End, By Hourly History All three are recommended: Should have read the second book first. and the third book second. |
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Posted: 12/13/2016 5:01:32 PM EDT
[#22]
Rhodesian Fire Force: 1966-1980 by Kerrin Cocks
Operation Dingo: Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio and Tebué, 1977 by JRT Wood |
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Posted: 12/14/2016 7:26:28 PM EDT
[#23]
The Road To Ruin by Jim Richards
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Posted: 12/24/2016 3:13:00 PM EDT
[#24]
Wyte Trash.
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Posted: 12/24/2016 5:29:12 PM EDT
[#25]
Batfish: The Champion Submarine Killer Submarine of World War Two.
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Posted: 12/26/2016 12:25:16 PM EDT
[#26]
The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer
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Posted: 12/29/2016 11:26:38 AM EDT
[#27]
Finished Batfish, now reading For Crew and Country about the USS Samuel B. Roberts, DE-423 of Taffy 3 fame.
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Posted: 12/29/2016 12:37:52 PM EDT
[#28]
Just finished Dagger 22. Makes me think why dafuq are we even still in Afghanistan when we won't let our guys fight to win? now reading Second Chance.
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Posted: 12/31/2016 2:07:05 PM EDT
[#29]
Just started Secret Service Dogs The Heroes Who Protect the President of the United States by Maria Goodavage.
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Posted: 1/10/2017 10:35:30 PM EDT
[#30]
Currently reading The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Stonehouse. It's pretty good.
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Posted: 1/10/2017 10:57:28 PM EDT
[#31]
It's somewhat a worthy read.
On the one hand there is a lot of BT;DT reading. Then again he leave much out. Granted much is CLASSIFIED one way or another....But he leaves too much out at times, too little other times. 
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Posted: 1/16/2017 7:17:22 PM EDT
[#32]
Selous Scouts: A Pictorial History by Peter Stiff and Selous Scouts: Top Secret War by Peter Stiff and Ron Reid-Daly
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Posted: 1/25/2017 8:07:40 PM EDT
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Just finished Edward Longacre's Sharpshooters. It's about the 9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.
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NC, USA
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Posted: 1/30/2017 6:11:22 PM EDT
[#34]
"BEST DAM GARAGE IN TOWN" autobiography by Glen "Smokey" Yunick. Excellent, a lot of behind the scenes of an amazing life and the real going on's with racing, General Motors board room / John Delorean. Tons of good photos! Gives some insight into why NASCAR and the France family has become what it is.
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Posted: 2/10/2017 1:05:35 AM EDT
[#35]
Finished Paul Carrell's Scorched Earth. It's a Schiffer hardcopy that I bought second hand for $20.
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Posted: 2/11/2017 12:02:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AlvinYork]
[#36]
Just finishing the first in the Game of Thrones series for the first time. Rereading The Long Ships for about the 30th time, usually read it about once a year. It is an interesting mix of books. Maybe I should also be reading Beowulf and or Grendel to round out the theme.
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Posted: 2/13/2017 1:43:38 AM EDT
[#37]
Just finished The Jewish Revolt. Onto American Indians and the Civil War.
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Posted: 2/13/2017 2:02:39 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Oldmikey:
The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer Great read. I've read it a few times. I made all my Lieutenants read it when I was a Company Commander. |
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Posted: 2/13/2017 2:04:25 AM EDT
[#39]
Trafalgar: An Eyewitness History by Tom Pocock.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 2/17/2017 12:36:58 AM EDT
[#40]
Neptunes Inferno...the naval battles of Iron Bottom Sound Guadalcanal. My father was there. 15,000 American sailors died there.
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Posted: 2/24/2017 8:24:48 PM EDT
[#41]
Finished Avenging Angel about John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry and the Fall of Eban Emal, the Belgian fortress captured by glider borne fallschirmjagers.
Just starting Larry Alexander's Shadows in the Jungle about the Alamo Scouts. |
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Posted: 2/24/2017 8:56:31 PM EDT
[#42]
Reading "Switch" right now for work.
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Posted: 2/27/2017 1:31:19 PM EDT
[#43]
Read Seven Zaloga's Bazooka vs. Panzer: The Battle of the Bulge as well as Mander's March on Rome. Maj. Mander belonged to the 4th Green Howards, part of the British 50th Div. that was captured near Tobruk. He was sent to Italy and interned there as a PoW. When Italy collapsed, he spent 10 months walking down the spine of Italy to Rome. Recaptured twice, he twice escaped again. Once in Rome, he began establishing contacts and set up his own intelligence system whereby he got information including the attack against the Allied Bridgehead at Anzio back to the 8th Army. My only gripe is that Major Mander didn't tell more about his services in the VIII Army before being captured.
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Posted: 3/1/2017 8:41:23 PM EDT
[#44]
We Had Everything But Money. It's a collection of stories from the Great Depression.
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Posted: 3/8/2017 10:55:47 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
[#45]
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. It's about the Dustbowl during the Great Depression.
ed: title correction |
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Posted: 3/14/2017 7:37:47 AM EDT
[#46]
The Battle of Paoli. Revolutionary War bayonet action with the Americans getting the sharp end of the bayonet.
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Posted: 3/14/2017 6:47:03 PM EDT
[#47]
Just finished reading Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Selous Scouts by Tim Bax.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2017 3:00:05 AM EDT
[#48]
Just finished rereading Dad's old copy of Up Front, by Bill Mauldin.
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Posted: 3/21/2017 10:47:16 AM EDT
[#49]
Roberta Senechal de la Roche's "Our Aim Was Man." It's about the First Andrew's Sharp Shooters in the Civil War. If you get it, read the introduction. After reading it, I read all the endnotes for the book and just finished chapter 1 this morning.
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NH, USA
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Posted: 3/21/2017 10:53:22 AM EDT
[#50]
Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy
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