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MO, USA
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Posted: 8/24/2020 8:42:11 PM EDT
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The Hill Fights.
About the first battle of Khe Sanh a year or so before the big siege. |
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Posted: 8/24/2020 9:09:07 PM EDT
[#2]
Just finished The green hills of africa.
Working on , Mythos Hero with a thousand faces The Shield of Achilles A biography of Ikkyu A biography of Diogenes. |
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Posted: 8/25/2020 12:52:19 AM EDT
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rereading A Bridge Too Far
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AL, USA
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Posted: 8/25/2020 3:49:57 PM EDT
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I picked up a book on the of Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Not sure of the author. |
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Posted: 8/25/2020 11:00:11 PM EDT
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A Spy Amongst Them by Richard Sakida
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Posted: 8/26/2020 9:09:07 PM EDT
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Helmut Wick: An Illustrated Biography of the Luftwaffe Ace and Commander of Jagdgeschwader 2 During the Battle of Britain
by Herbert Ringlstetter |
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Posted: 8/27/2020 1:34:41 PM EDT
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The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby. Hardcover copy, it only took a few months to get it.
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Posted: 8/30/2020 10:26:06 AM EDT
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Just finished Swift's Oh What a Lovely War. Swift belonged to the Royal Artillery and crewed (as a gunlayer) towed 25 pdrs in the Western Desert. He later served in Italy before his division (7th Armoured) was brought home in anticipation of the Normandy Landings. They were mounted on the Sexton SPG (25 pdr on Sherman chassis).
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Posted: 8/30/2020 10:29:54 AM EDT
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Anthony Beevor's Ardennes 1944. I already finished writing my stuff on Hurtgen and the Ardennes Offensive. Quite a bit of sniping stories will be told in the latter. Anyway, I enjoy Beevor's other two books (Stalingrad and Normandy) and thought this would be just an enjoyable read.
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Posted: 9/2/2020 9:42:57 PM EDT
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Samsonov's Designing The T-34
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Posted: 9/4/2020 2:42:38 PM EDT
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Seven Days In Hell.
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Posted: 9/10/2020 7:03:43 PM EDT
[#12]
China's Wars
Rousing the Dragon 1894-1949 by Philip Jowett |
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Posted: 9/13/2020 11:52:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Seven Days In Hell. It's about the Canadian Black Watch in Normandy. What a cluster-f*ck and the battalion was virtually destroyed with nothing to show for it.  Presently reading 82nd Airborne Gen. James Gavin's On To Berlin. Was lucky to score a used copy. |
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Posted: 9/18/2020 6:04:33 AM EDT
[#14]
This Cockeyed War.
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Posted: 9/18/2020 6:35:10 AM EDT
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Currently:
What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography Dickinson, Bruce Up Next: Dune - Seen the '84 movie, but never read the book. |
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Posted: 9/18/2020 6:43:51 AM EDT
[Last Edit: eracer]
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'Spectre Rising' by C.W. Lemoine. Book one in the four-part Spectre series.
Lemoine is a former F-16/ F/A-18 pilot, and writes in the style of Tom Clancy. Lots of technical detail, and several storylines intertwined around a central theme (in this case, Iraq.) It's pretty good. I got the whole series for $5 for my Kindle. 
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Posted: 9/18/2020 7:38:15 PM EDT
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Jurassic Park, and then I'm going to move on to France in Centrafrique by Peter Baxter
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Posted: 9/22/2020 1:38:00 PM EDT
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I just started reading T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom again along with the Havmal
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Posted: 9/25/2020 10:00:13 PM EDT
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Terror of the Autumn Skies
The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I by Blaine Pardoe |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 10/6/2020 8:45:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Felsen]
[#20]
 The Problem with Lincoln Thomas J. DiLorenzo How Abraham Lincoln ended the original American republic, limited-in-scope and diffusely managed by the states, and transformed it into the highly centralized, unlimited-in-scope interventionist federal government we have today. |
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Posted: 10/6/2020 9:40:47 PM EDT
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Finishing up Anabasis by Xenophon
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Posted: 10/9/2020 7:59:18 AM EDT
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Presently reading Burgin's Island of the Damned. He was in K/3/5 w/Eugene Sledge.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 10/9/2020 12:59:23 PM EDT
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius! Been down he always picks me back up.
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Posted: 10/9/2020 7:36:26 PM EDT
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"Just Try Me," by Paxton Quigley.
This sexy and fast-acting thriller stars two stunning Ukranian Dominatrices, a New York City "fashionista" mother, a female Afghanistan War veteran and a very secretive ex-CIA, Special Forces, bodyguard. Justine's journey celebrates the tragic-comic turbulences of our relationships, the fantasies and seduction that can ensnare us all. A book for all seasons. Just try it. About Paxton Quigley Paxton Quigley is the author of the best-selling book series, "Armed & Female." She briefly was a bodyguard to well-known public figures & also taught 7,000 women how to shoot a handgun for self-defense. She received her training at the top U.S. schools including Executive Security International, Lethal Force Institute & Gunsite Academy. |
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Posted: 10/9/2020 8:02:14 PM EDT
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Islands of the Damned is good reading. It gives a different perspective of men and battles that Eugene Sledge was involved in.
Presently opened a book written by Arfcom member Freeride21a's father about an Uncle who was with the 82nd Airborne and vanished in Holland, Phil Rosenkrantz's Letters From Uncle Dave. |
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Posted: 10/12/2020 11:42:40 AM EDT
[#26]
Roger Storkamp's Pvt. Richard Lee Leslie. Written by his daughter and son-in-law, it's mostly about his struggles with PTSD. Flashbacks haunted him post-war big time.
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Posted: 10/15/2020 8:32:31 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
[#27]
Bradford Boggs' Lucky Davis: An Army Scout's Story. 91st Recon Sqdrn.
Found his unit history online: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nam_wolfhound/albums/72157626113865926/ |
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Posted: 10/23/2020 12:33:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
[#28]
Dbl tap
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Posted: 10/23/2020 12:33:48 PM EDT
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Read six non-military related books in the past few weeks and now on:
Nikolai Litvin with Stuart Britton (transl, ed.) 800 Days On the Eastern Front. |
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Posted: 10/23/2020 11:30:27 PM EDT
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Texas Rising by Stephen Moore
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Posted: 10/24/2020 12:38:54 AM EDT
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Fallschirmjager! by Greg Way
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Posted: 10/28/2020 9:03:02 AM EDT
[#32]
The Korsun Pocket
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Posted: 10/28/2020 9:18:25 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/28/2020 9:26:07 AM EDT
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I'm about 300+ pages into Dune. Enjoying it so far.
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Posted: 10/29/2020 3:59:36 PM EDT
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Currently reading Neptune's Inferno by Hornfischer.
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Posted: 11/4/2020 12:34:31 PM EDT
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An Ensign in Italy.
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Posted: 11/4/2020 3:17:12 PM EDT
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Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean by Alex von Tunzelmann.
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Posted: 11/5/2020 8:17:57 PM EDT
[#38]
Behind Japanese Lines
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Posted: 11/6/2020 5:51:11 PM EDT
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1 Recce: The Night Belongs to Us by Alexander Strachan
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Posted: 11/11/2020 9:51:48 AM EDT
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A Fragment of Victory in Italy - about the 92nd Infantry Div.
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Posted: 11/12/2020 7:00:52 PM EDT
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Band of Strangers.
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Posted: 11/14/2020 9:07:46 AM EDT
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Impact by Leser Nichols. It's about the 10th Armored Div.
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Posted: 11/15/2020 12:10:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2020 6:21:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
[#44]
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: 11/29/2020 6:36:18 PM EDT
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The Law
by Frederic Bastiat |
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Posted: 11/30/2020 10:48:52 AM EDT
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Finished Graziano's A Patriot's Memoirs of World War II.
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Posted: 12/2/2020 12:10:17 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Just finished To Innsbruck and Back and Tiger Battalion 507.
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Posted: 12/2/2020 10:31:36 AM EDT
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Into the Rising Sun. First hand accounts from the men who pushed Japan back and defeated it.
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Posted: 12/2/2020 10:32:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TARHEEL_85: Terror of the Autumn Skies The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I by Blaine Pardoe Still in my bookcase. Luke went one balloon too far.
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Posted: 12/7/2020 6:47:40 PM EDT
[#50]
Given Up For Dead - about American PoWs at Berga POW camp.
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