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IL, USA
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Posted: 3/19/2008 10:39:29 PM EST
I decided to finally read Band of Brothers the other day. I am a little over half way through it. It is pretty good so far and an easy read. How about you guys?
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Posted: 3/19/2008 11:07:02 PM EST
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I just finished the first volume of Warfare in Antiquity by Delbruck. It was very challenging, but a MUST read for any student of history. I still have three volumes to go...
Shane |
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IN, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2008 10:37:07 AM EST
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Guest of the Aytollah by Mark Bowden
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MI, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2008 5:09:42 PM EST
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An Army at Dawn
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VA, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2008 6:55:34 PM EST
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Wilderness of Mirrors by David C. Martin
If the movie Good Shepard peaked your interest in the CIA get this book and find out what really happened. Which is the best that a movie can do. |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 3/21/2008 7:28:54 PM EST
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German Assault Troops of the First World War. Very well researched and written.
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WI, USA
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Posted: 3/24/2008 6:53:05 AM EST
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"The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII" by Iris Chang.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 3/24/2008 8:38:45 PM EST
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Steve |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 3/24/2008 8:52:03 PM EST
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Roughneck Nine-One by Frank Antenori, Green Berets kick butt in Iraq!
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IL, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2008 7:33:20 PM EST
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I finished Band of Brothers, and I am now reading Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence by HW Brands. It is pretty good so far. I really liked his books The First American which was about Ben Franklin, and Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times which were both excellent.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/30/2008 8:58:58 PM EST
[Last Edit: Staccato-Cough]
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"Mapolisa; Some reminiscences of a Rhodesian Policeman" by David Craven
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Posted: 3/30/2008 9:47:32 PM EST
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Taking Heaven by Storm by John H Wigger
Good book so far. IM on the edge of selling my tv so that i can get more reading and studying done. |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 3/30/2008 9:54:04 PM EST
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Trigger Men. It's about our snipers in Iraq. Good reading.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 3/30/2008 10:31:23 PM EST
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I just found Tom Clancys End War in the airplane the other day so I will read that.
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Posted: 3/30/2008 10:32:40 PM EST
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1776
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MI, USA
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Posted: 3/31/2008 11:15:25 AM EST
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"His Excellency" and "The Alphabet of Manliness" are my current reads.
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Posted: 3/31/2008 2:49:52 PM EST
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Silent Victory, by Clay Blair
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OH, USA
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Posted: 3/31/2008 3:24:58 PM EST
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1776
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/1/2008 7:18:35 PM EST
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Shot Down in Flames by Geoffrey Page, DSO, DBE, DFC and BAR. Best account I've read of taking off in a Spitfire.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/1/2008 7:51:29 PM EST
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My ols man gave me an old paperback copy of "The Cruel Sea" I know it's fiction but still a good read. I've seen the movie a few times and I want to see how different the book is.
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MI, USA
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Posted: 4/1/2008 7:53:22 PM EST
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bible
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/8/2008 6:13:22 PM EST
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Messerschmidts Over Sicily.
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Posted: 4/9/2008 4:56:23 PM EST
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I just finished "Don't Tread on Me" and "Killer Elite."
Fascinating books, which both point to at least one conclusion: don't let the politicos run wars. Bill |
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USA
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Posted: 4/9/2008 6:41:48 PM EST
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Baa Baa Blacksheep by Pappy Boyington. Started it today, actually.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/9/2008 7:58:52 PM EST
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Lawrence Attwell's Letters from the Front. During WW I, an Englishman joins the 1/15 Civil Service Rifles and marches off to fight in the trenches. He actually survives four years of fighting.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/13/2008 3:30:48 PM EST
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Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King. It's 1815 story of a Connecticut ship's captain, Reily, whose ship runs aground off the coast of Africa. They're captured by the arabs who make them slaves. Beaten at the slightest mishap, there seems to be no hope for them. Then one night Reily dreams he meets a gentleman who promises him that if he can reach Swerah, he can be saved. Reily convinces one Arab trader, Sidi Hamet, to buy him and promises that the consulate in Swearah would pay a good ransom for his return. The Arab agrees and the story of their journey across the desert, drinking camel urine at times to keep hydrated, eating entrails and bugs to survive, is a story of inner strength. The hazards of the desert aren't the only foes they face as other arabs attempt to steal Reily and his handful of survivors along the way. Sidi Hamet does deliver a note to the British counsul who pays the ransom for the American. Treachery by Sidi Hamet's angry father-in-law almost forfeits the exchange but Reily and his men are saved.
If you want some insights into the Arab mind, this is a good book to read. The author Dean King doesn't denigrate the Arabs for what happened and even traced on camelback Reily's steps as best as he could. |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 3:36:55 PM EST
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"Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban" by Stephen Tanner
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Posted: 4/13/2008 5:51:51 PM EST
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. Have just finished Son of the Morning Star.
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Posted: 4/13/2008 5:55:52 PM EST
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A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge by Charles B. MacDonald
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IL, USA
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Posted: 4/14/2008 9:59:28 PM EST
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I am now reading Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence. It is very good thus far. I am a little over 3/5ths of the way done with it and I look forward to my next book which will be about cocaine from people eating the leaves once upon a time through the 19th century.
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Posted: 4/15/2008 12:09:30 PM EST
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Guest of the Allaytollah by Mark Bowden
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2008 9:34:22 PM EST
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Just finished "War Dog" by Al Venter and have placed order for "Fire Force" by Chris Cocks. I also am looking at purchasing "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell.
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IN, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2008 10:40:56 PM EST
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BLACKWATER: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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WI, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2008 10:46:42 PM EST
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I am almost done with We Were Soldiers Once...and Young. Excellent read, though I will probably have to read it again.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/16/2008 7:30:46 PM EST
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Rifle Green in the Peninsula, Vol. II. It's about the 95th Regiment, later stylized as The Rifle Brigade.
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/17/2008 10:02:12 PM EST
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"Recon Scout" by Fred H. Salter. It's his account of being a scout during WWII.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2008 12:43:49 PM EST
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Just finished reading Balloons to Jets: A century of Aeronautics in Illinois, 1855-1955.
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MS, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2008 4:20:43 PM EST
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Masters of the Air
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life World War II Armchair Reader Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2008 6:34:13 PM EST
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Just finished reading, A Pilot's Journey: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman; Curtis Christopher Robinson. It's not the best book I've read, but it is a decent read about a college educated man who enlisted into the Army Air Corps and becomes a Tuskegee Airman. The book covers his post-war experience with the fledgling NSA and how he quit in disgust (these college grads, ex-Army officers, were all given menial jobs and insult to injury, were supervised by a non-college graduate who was younger than them). He returned to college (Howard Univ this time) and became a pharmcist who owned six pharmacies. He still has one today (just to keep himself busy) and does home delivery to his old customers. What a guy! I'd love to meet him someday. I bought my autographed copy at the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum the last time I was there.
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Posted: 4/25/2008 7:06:44 PM EST
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The Passing Of The Armies by Joshua Chamberlain.
Great book but it is difficult to read fast. |
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Posted: 4/25/2008 7:22:23 PM EST
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PLaying for Pizza
next is Sam Walton |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2008 6:49:52 PM EST
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For Whom The Bell Tolls By Hemingway, About the 1936 Civil War in Spain between the Facists and the Socialists. Something I've previously never heard of.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2008 7:25:59 PM EST
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The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria for a class. Good book nonetheless.
Just finished The Price of Glory by Alistair Horne about Verdun. Probably one of the best written/entertaining monographs I have ever read. |
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NM, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2008 12:19:08 AM EST
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"Fatal Terrain" by Dale Brown
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WI, USA
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Posted: 5/3/2008 5:34:45 PM EST
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MS, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2008 5:38:35 PM EST
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Now reading Londonistan as well as the other ones...
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2008 7:52:55 AM EST
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i enjoyed reading it though the author puts his views on a pedestal. I am currently reading the Two Lives of Charlemagne by einhard and notker |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2008 7:41:42 PM EST
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Company Aytch by Sam Watkins. It's the revised edition that incorporates the changes that Sam wanted to make but never did. His descendant, a great-grand niece was gracious enough to submit it for publication.
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Posted: 5/9/2008 7:55:38 PM EST
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I just got done with:
Uhuru by Robert Ruark and Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne Now I'm working on: Horn of the Hunter by Robert Ruark next in line is: Something of Value by Robert Ruark  What can I say... I've been on an Africa kick lately... although I realize now that I should have read these works from Ruark in a different order. In my free time I've been trying to leave the TV off and read a lot more than I have lately. I've bought probably 50 books in the past few years and they're not gonna read themselves  ... lots of reading to be done if I'm ever gonna get through it all.  |
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Posted: 5/9/2008 7:59:23 PM EST
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In the middle of two right now; "Flying Through Midnight" my John T. Halliday for the dozenth time (an EXCELLENT book) and "Veil - The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987" by Bob Woodward.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2008 10:47:30 PM EST
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I just finished John Adams. Amazing book! I've been a Civil War devotee for so many years, I decided it was time to look into the early part of our nationhood. Gonna be starting Founding Brothers next.
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