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Posted: 11/29/2021 1:17:57 AM EDT
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I’m about halfway through with the first Dune book.
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Posted: 11/29/2021 11:50:06 AM EDT
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Red Rabbit by Clancy
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GA, USA
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Posted: 12/1/2021 4:55:33 PM EDT
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Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators and War Elephants.
San Fransicko The Genius of Birds. |
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Posted: 12/5/2021 10:12:27 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Just finished a book on Marine Raiders and it wasn't a very good one. No primary research as the author relied on published works. Starting on Arn's War.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:43:46 AM EDT
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For Stalin and the Motherland or In the Soviet Union without Toilet Paper by Roman Vladimir Skulski
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WI, USA
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:51:18 AM EDT
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In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg: The 6th Wisconsin of the Iron Brigade and its Famous Charge
Lance K. Herdegen & William J. K. Beaudot |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:14:49 PM EDT
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THFRO
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GA, USA
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Posted: 12/8/2021 10:55:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Ramsey118]
[#8]
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
by Harold Schechter |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:38:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
[#9]
Vilnis Bankovics' Driven West, Taken East about his experience as a Latvian being drafted into the Wehrmacht and then captured by the Soviets.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 12:21:23 PM EDT
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Re-reading Leadership and Training for the Fight: Using Special Operations Principles to Succeed in Law Enforcement, Business, and War
Cause it's that good |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 2:45:43 PM EDT
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“Steel my soldiers hearts”
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Posted: 12/10/2021 12:03:47 AM EDT
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Finally finished Antoine de St-Exupery's flight books on my recent trip. Worth reading, especially the earlier ones about being a very early airline/mail pilot in North Africa and South America. The last book is about being a recon pilot with the French Air Force in 1939-40, really about one mission, and it wasn't as compelling. Basically it was like he was trying to be fancy/philosophical, versus just telling a story with philosophical asides and themes. There's also a short section in the earlier books about visiting the Republican front lines in the Spanish Civil War, that was very good.
Started "19 with a Bullet", an account of a South African paratrooper in Angola. A war I don't know much about, but not the best writing. Typical veteran memoir so far. May not go farther with it. Finished ASOIAF 1 and 2 on audiobook. Now switched to Correia's Monster Hunter Guardian. |
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Posted: 12/11/2021 11:54:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Obedient Unto Death by a Liebstandarte soldier.
Very few personal insights and mostlly a unit history with a sprinkling of diary entries from other soldiers. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 12/14/2021 11:04:27 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Ramsey118]
[#14]
Carnivore
Memoir Of A Calvary Scout At War by Dillard Johnson |
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Posted: 12/14/2021 10:11:27 PM EDT
[#15]
Cardinal of the Kremlin
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TX, USA
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Posted: 12/14/2021 10:32:05 PM EDT
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Just finished The Cellist and started The Power of the Dog
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Posted: 12/15/2021 7:43:40 AM EDT
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The White Cascade, local history, I've been to most of the places the author discusses, the North Cascades in winter are no joke they will kill you, quickly.
https://www.amazon.com/White-Cascade-Northern-Deadliest-Avalanche/dp/0805083294 |
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Posted: 12/15/2021 6:16:52 PM EDT
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Dan Marsh's Once a Raider.
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Posted: 12/16/2021 11:13:37 AM EDT
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Like Obedient Unto Death Marsh's Raiders is short on first hand experience. The former has a lot of diary excerpts from other members of Liebstandarte but I'd rather have the entire diary. The latter covers all four Raider battalions but is rather skimpy and is more of an assembly of blog posts. OK read, but not useful to me.
Onto Carole Avriett's Marine Raiders. She is also the author of the popular WW2 aviation book, Coffin Corner Boys. Her style of writing remimds me of Makoos who wrote A Higher Call (about Me-109 ace Franz Stigler and B-17 pilot Charlie Brown). |
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Posted: 12/17/2021 6:56:05 PM EDT
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Just picked up Special Reconnaissance and Advanced Small Unit Patrolling which is a compilation of "lessons learned" by MACV-SOG missions. The author
is a SOG vet, Lt. Col. Ed Wolcoff. He frames the lessons by each stage of the mission planning process, execution and support. Highly praised by numerous SOG vets, including Plaster. Next is another SOG memoir, this time from an officer's viewpoint. A Glorious Nightmare, by Gamble Dick. He starts out as a SF Butterbar who volunteers for a secret mission unit and is soon leading Hatchet forces over the fence. So far it's well written. The last one I've read a couple of times. Some Thoughts on Scouts and Spies, by Gerry Barker. This is a look at Special Reconnaissance in the time of the Longhunters. More of a general treatise, aimed at historical reenactors, the author illustrates through his Vietnam SF experience the challenges faced by men like Kenton and Boone going up against the Woodland Indians. An interesting twist that describes a lot of traits that make up good recon operators. Highly recommended. |
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Posted: 12/18/2021 12:15:35 AM EDT
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Unmasked by Andy Ngo.
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Posted: 12/23/2021 10:12:12 AM EDT
[#22]
Richard Siegert's The Tiger From Poznan
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Posted: 12/23/2021 9:39:53 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mPisi: Now switched to Correia's Monster Hunter Guardian. Finished this audiobook, been doing too much driving this month. Pretty good story, but an annoying amount of baby talk and mommy angst. I do prefer the more "slice of life" MHI things versus the end-of-the-world scenarios. I also appreciate how Julie's special powers come with tradeoffs and growing consequences. Now on to Leviathan Wakes on audiobook, the first main book in the Expanse series. I have not yet picked up book #9 which just came out. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 8:11:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: somedude]
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7 or 8 books into the Arisen series. There was Raiders and another one off book he did that was good till halfway. Pitting Rangers vs Seals that got a bit too carried away. Finished book 5 in the timeline of Arisen and debating whether to buy 6 or get the unlimited plan.
Have a bunch of others to read not sure if taking a break before number 6 with something else. Looking at books on unit 731, if anyone has a suggestion there. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 8:15:57 PM EDT
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Sun and saddle lether
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Posted: 12/25/2021 10:22:38 AM EDT
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Couldn't help myself, so I started reading The Wheel of Time series again. Started with New Spring, then The Eye of the World, now I'm a few chapters into The Great Hunt.
I'm enjoying all of the foreshadowing that I didn't pick up on the first time through. And I had forgotten how innocent the characters were at first. |
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Posted: 12/25/2021 7:45:32 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Ira Wolfert's American Guerilla in the Philippines about Lt. Richardson of MTB Squadron #3 who refused to surrender and led a band of Filipino Guerillas during the war.
Amazing amount of improvisation described in the book. Handloaded ammo with explosives from Japanese mines mixed with burnt coconut shells to tone it down. Homemade primers using sulphur as one ingredient. Mk I eyeball filling with powder. Hit or miss seating and crimping with pliers. Army man called upon to distill alcohol for fuel for trucks. Improvised telegraph lines made with barbed wire. Uniforms were improvised too and wearing a Japanese uniform was prestigious (it meant you killed somebody to get it). I can see this book being banned by authoritarian governments. After a slow start, it's as fun as Major Dach von Bern's Total Resistance. |
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WV, USA
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Posted: 12/26/2021 1:01:18 AM EDT
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Atrocity Week read it in fifth grade was blown away by it so I bought it on Amazon.
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GA, USA
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Posted: 12/27/2021 4:59:40 PM EDT
[#29]
The Plantagenets - Dan Jones
Coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt The Genius of Birds - Jennfer Ackerman Woke INC - Vivek Ramaswamy |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:10:57 PM EDT
[#30]
Robert Lapham and Bernard Norling's Lapham's Raiders: Guerillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945.
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Posted: 1/5/2022 6:06:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By feudist: Just picked up Special Reconnaissance and Advanced Small Unit Patrolling which is a compilation of "lessons learned" by MACV-SOG missions. The author is a SOG vet, Lt. Col. Ed Wolcoff. He frames the lessons by each stage of the mission planning process, execution and support. Highly praised by numerous SOG vets, including Plaster. Reading this now. Good lord... SOG had a 150-to-1 kill ratio and 50 men in SOG deployed tied down 4 enemy divisions (~40,000 men, an 800-to-1 ratio)!!! |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 1/5/2022 6:13:55 PM EDT
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The Looming Tower. I highly recommend it if you haven't already read it.
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Posted: 1/5/2022 6:17:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2022 4:30:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Robert Lapham and Bernard Norling's Lapham's Raiders: Guerillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945. Put that down temporarily for Innocent Killer. I learned of this book from the bibliography of another book I had read. |
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USA
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Posted: 1/7/2022 4:20:29 AM EDT
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The UZI Submachine Gun Examined by David Gaboury.
Son and DIL got it for me for Christmas. Enjoying it eminsly so far. |
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Posted: 1/9/2022 4:51:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/9/2022 5:29:42 PM EDT
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Was starting Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock, but the audiobook chapters are all screwed up. Out of order and no numbers, just the chapter names. So I flipped to Correia's latest MHI Bloodlines, which also has screwed up chapters but at least they are numbered so I can find them on the car system when needed.
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Posted: 1/10/2022 12:18:43 AM EDT
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Debt of Honor by Clancy
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Posted: 1/11/2022 6:02:46 PM EDT
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GA, USA
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Posted: 1/12/2022 10:54:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dhmjr40: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/184339/calvinhobbes_jpg-2237109.JPG  These plus the farside compilation are a yearly read for me. |
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Posted: 1/12/2022 11:10:50 AM EDT
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Started Sapiens by Yuval Harari, and am enjoying it.
It's an evidence based analysis of the growth and development of humanity, from our earliest splits with the other human species. Very interesting, and gives insight to so much our collective history. |
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Posted: 1/12/2022 7:39:33 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Kitties-with-Sigs]
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Most of y'all have WAY more capacity for mental energy outlay in your free-time reading than I do, apparently.
I'm reading the "My Man Jeeves" stories by P.G. Wodehouse. They've been on my "to-read" list for so many years it's embarrassing. Light and fun, perfect for "small chunk" reading before bed, and always leave a smile. |
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USA
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Posted: 1/12/2022 8:42:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fish223: Started Sapiens by Yuval Harari, and am enjoying it. It's an evidence based analysis of the growth and development of humanity, from our earliest splits with the other human species. Very interesting, and gives insight to so much our collective history. It was good, but his follow on books leave a lot to be desired. |
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Posted: 1/15/2022 5:32:33 PM EDT
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Fire Mission! by Robert Weiss
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Posted: 1/15/2022 10:15:51 PM EDT
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David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef(Safehold Series) and also Death Waits in the Dark by Greg Coker and George Hand. Different ends of the spectrum but both good reads
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Posted: 1/19/2022 5:18:54 PM EDT
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Not in Vain: A Riflemen Remembers World War II by Leon Standifer. Learning alot about post Civil War South.
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Posted: 1/19/2022 8:18:58 PM EDT
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Executive Orders by Clancy
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Posted: 1/20/2022 9:10:14 AM EDT
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"Masters of Deceit," by J. Edgar Hoover.
I'm finding a lot of modern parallels to this book that was written in the 1950s, and it's interesting to note that the very term "politically correct" is an old Communist doctrinal phrase, which most Americans don't even realize as they use and see it every day. That's how pervasive the left and its ideology is now. 
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Posted: 1/21/2022 8:12:32 PM EDT
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Bruce Zorns' I Walk Through the Valley
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GA, USA
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Posted: 1/22/2022 12:29:38 PM EDT
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Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
by Richard Rhodes InMasters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the part played by the Einsatzgruppen--the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union, early in World War II, by Himmler's SS |
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