What book are you reading right now? (Page 3 of 40)
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The Tank Killers: A History of America's World War II Tank Destroyer Force, by Harry Yeide. Once I'm finished that, the next books in queue are; Common Sense, by Thomas Paine The Unknown American Revolution, by Gary B. Nash The Utility of Force: The Art of War In The Modern World, by General Rupert Smith Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of The Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II, by Barrett Tillman Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45, by Max Hastings. And thanks to you bastards, I have a whole new list of books to buy!  
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Damn. Aimless must have a belt-fed lock button. -photokirk
Logic is to democrats what laser pointers are to cats. They just confuse the shit out of them. -h3smith
Logic is to democrats what laser pointers are to cats. They just confuse the shit out of them. -h3smith
NightWorld by F. Paul Wilson. It is the last of the Adversary Cycle of 6 Books. The Keep, The Tomb, The Touch, Reborn, Reprisal, and NightWorld. Repairman Jack is a Main Character. Wilson has also written many stand alone Repairman Jack novels. Great revenge stories with Good/Evil Supernatural thrown In. Page Turners. 
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Just finished a great book last night. It was called The Rising Tide, by Jeff Shaara It's was a great read. It was writen as a novel by a Phd in history. It was the first in a trilogy about WW2. This one dealt mainly with Rommel and the was in North Africa all the way though Sicily and Italy. It ends there, and I believe the next one will continue with Operation Overlord. Great book, with a writing style similar to Clancy, but historically accurate. HIghly recommend it. TXL |
hey, SHTF situations do not wait on hangovers. train accordingly................(TexRdNec)
I'm not not voting for Barak because he is black, I'm not voting for him because he is a fucking socialist who wants to create more parasites for society.
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I'm not not voting for Barak because he is black, I'm not voting for him because he is a fucking socialist who wants to create more parasites for society.
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| Compelled to Appear in Print It's the Vicksburg memoirs of John C. Pemberton, the Confederate who surrendered the garrison of Vicksburg to Grant. After the war, the Confederate Commander of the West, Joseph Johnston, penned his memoirs which placed the loss of Vicksburg solely on Pemberton. Pemberton prepared a rebuttal but it was never published and long forgotten - until recently when the manuscript was purchased at an estate sale in Ohio. For anyone interested in getting the Confederate perspective of Vicksburg, especially one that challenges convention, Compelled to Appear in Print is a must read book. |
Just finished one about the Biopreparat (the Soviet Biological weapons program) written by Ken Alibek, a former bioweapons scientist who came to the US after the fall of the Soviet Union.  Really good read, and a perfect example of how arms control laws, whether they be gun control statutes or international treaties, only serve to disarm the good guys. |
"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life..."
John McCain doesn't want to ban your guns. Barak Obama does.
John McCain doesn't want to ban your guns. Barak Obama does.
Definately not fiction or very much history, I am currently ready (and using  ) The Joy of Home Winemaking. It is mostly focused on making fruit base wines (which I really like). |
The best part of all your self-inflicted drama is how happy it makes you.. how you're deeply fulfilled to your core, and how it makes you a better human being. It's freaking inspirational. - MMcCall
| I just picked up Matthew Bracken's second book The Reconquista (already read Enemies Foreign and Domestic). I've got a business trip next week and I'll be on a plane 10 hrs. Hopefully I'll finish it. |
West Virginia University - AKA - New Jersey Out of State University - Alumni.
| Dauntless by Barrett Tillman......A novel about SBD's and their crews at Midway and Guadalcanal. |
Can't talk...gotta shoot.
C.E. "Bud" Anderson.
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do all the damage we can." - Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland
C.E. "Bud" Anderson.
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do all the damage we can." - Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland
| Joseph Glatthaar's General Lee's Army. I've already read Glatthaar's Forged in Battle and March to the Sea and Beyond. Both were very well researched, thought out and written. I'm only up to Chapter 4 and so far General Lee's Army has not been disappointing. In some ways though, it reminds me of Irving Bell Wiley's Life of Johnny Reb. |
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I haven't read the entire thread so if it has been previously mentioned I apologize. Backbone of the Wehrmacht by Richard Law. If you want to know anything about the K98k, buy this book. I'll probably be ordering the follow up edition for the sniper rifles. ETA: it took 182 tries to get a page 
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Currently out from the local library: Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past by Bruce Bartlett The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shales, and One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dodds The are all good. Steve |
 Synopsis A real-life Suite Française, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered the oppressive regime, Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. In an act of astonishing bravery, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance—very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter, Résistance, gave the French Resistance its name.) In the throes of their struggle for freedom, the members of Humbert’s group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. In immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her time in prison, her deportation to Germany, where for more than two years she endured a string of brutal labor camps, and the horror of discovering that seven of her friends were executed by a firing squad. But through the direst of conditions, and ill health in the labor camps, Humbert retains hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book was soon forgotten and is now translated into English for the first time. Résistance is more than a firsthand account of wartime France: it is the work of a brave, witty, and forceful woman, a true believer who refused to go quietly. Anyone read this yet? Reviews? |
West Virginia University - AKA - New Jersey Out of State University - Alumni.
A very good read......my copy is signed by a member of my church who was there, aboard the Hornet [CV12] |
Can't talk...gotta shoot.
C.E. "Bud" Anderson.
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do all the damage we can." - Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland
C.E. "Bud" Anderson.
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do all the damage we can." - Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland
| Battle of Brooklyn. It was the first major battle on open ground of the Revolution (the siege of Boston doesn't count nor does Lexington & Concord). Washington was badly beaten by Howe and almost destroyed. Luckily, he managed to extricate his army to Manhattan. Had Howe followed up with his successful attack, he could have captured Washington and the Continental Army and possibly end the revolution right then and there. |
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I just finished reading "First In" its about the first CIA team to be inserted into Afghanistan following 911, not a bad read. More Political than tactical though, but still pretty good. I thought it was cool that the CIA team used Browning HPs as their side arm |
If guns kill, then silverware makes people fat
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C-130 Crew Chief
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C-130 Crew Chief
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I'm going on vacation, so I went by the library for some reading material. I would not be able to afford my reading habit otherwise.... A Conservative History of the American Left, by Daniel J. Flynn Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45, by Max Hastings D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion, by Mary Kathryn Barbier War & Peace & War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations, by Peter Turcbin I'm partway through Retribution, it is pretty good so far. Steve |
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Helmand, Afghanistan 3 Commando Brigade by Ewen Southby-Tailyour.
Picked it up in Dublin last month and just started it. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pKBQr3TLL._SS500_.jpg |