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Just got done with Legerdemain by James Heaphey.
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Jim Rickards' The Big Drop.
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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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If it wasn't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.
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Memoirs of Maj. Gen. Riedesel. He served with Burgoyne at Saratoga and was captured there.
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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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Hatred of the state is love of humanity.
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
Zambezi Valley Insurgency: Early Rhodesian Bush War Operations by JRT Wood.
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Hatred of the state is love of humanity.
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
Pacific Payback, Stephen L. Moore. SBD aviators from Pearl Harbor to Midway.
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Can't talk...gotta shoot.
C.E. "Bud" Anderson. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." |
Just finished Philip Magnan's Letters From the Pacific Front.
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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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Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester.
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Audey Murphy's To Hell and Back.
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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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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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If it wasn't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.
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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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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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Fiat Paper Money: The History and Evolution of Our Currency by Ralph T. Foster
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I'm reading Lynne Cheney's biography on James Madison. It is very good.
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. --Wittier Bynner
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Selous Scouts: Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency Specialists by Peter Baxter
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Hatred of the state is love of humanity.
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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If it wasn't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.
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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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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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Rhodesian Fire Force: 1966-1980 by Kerrin Cocks
Operation Dingo: Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio and Tebué, 1977 by JRT Wood |
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Hatred of the state is love of humanity.
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
The Road To Ruin by Jim Richards
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Wyte Trash.
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Batfish: The Champion Submarine Killer Submarine of World War Two.
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The value of Freedom is not realized until it is lost
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The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer
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Gods on the side with the best artillery
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Finished Batfish, now reading For Crew and Country about the USS Samuel B. Roberts, DE-423 of Taffy 3 fame.
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The value of Freedom is not realized until it is lost
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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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Just started Secret Service Dogs The Heroes Who Protect the President of the United States by Maria Goodavage.
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Currently reading The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Stonehouse. It's pretty good.
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"He should have killed me. I would have killed me."
For God and Country: Geronimo! Geronimo! Geronimo! "You know the world's insane when we envy Russia their president!" |
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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Hatred of the state is love of humanity.
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
Just finished Edward Longacre's Sharpshooters. It's about the 9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.
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"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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Finished Paul Carrell's Scorched Earth. It's a Schiffer hardcopy that I bought second hand for $20.
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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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Donald is crude, unpolished, and straight forward, just what we need. When you consider it a welfare recipient really works only one day a year.
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Just finished The Jewish Revolt. Onto American Indians and the Civil War.
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A bad day at the range is better than a good day at work
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Trafalgar: An Eyewitness History by Tom Pocock.
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A bad day at the range is better than a good day at work
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Neptunes Inferno...the naval battles of Iron Bottom Sound Guadalcanal. My father was there. 15,000 American sailors died there.
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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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Reading "Switch" right now for work.
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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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We Had Everything But Money. It's a collection of stories from the Great Depression.
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The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. It's about the Dustbowl during the Great Depression.
ed: title correction |
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The Battle of Paoli. Revolutionary War bayonet action with the Americans getting the sharp end of the bayonet.
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Just finished reading Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Selous Scouts by Tim Bax.
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Hatred of the state is love of humanity.
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
Just finished rereading Dad's old copy of Up Front, by Bill Mauldin.
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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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Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy
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