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04-26-13, 09:20 AM | #1186 |
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Finally ordered me a book about ancient Rome, so starting on
'In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire' by Adrian Goldsworthy |
04-26-13, 05:05 PM | #1187 |
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Started Sword Point by Harold Coyle a few days ago...
I like it... Harold Coyle is a pretty good writer. I wish Team Yankee had a better ending though.
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05-07-13, 01:29 PM | #1188 |
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05-09-13, 03:35 PM | #1189 |
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The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought, by Thomas S. Kukn, Harvard University Press, 1957.
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05-09-13, 03:57 PM | #1190 |
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05-09-13, 04:38 PM | #1191 |
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No, I was looking over all the stuff I just have sitting on the shelf that I've never read, and I was thinking about a biography of Raleigh and looking for Morison's biography of Columbus. I couldn't find Columbus, and I cursed Sir Walter Raleigh (he was such a stupid git), and then I spotted that one. I thumbed through it and it looked like an easy read written for the layman, and I thought "Why not?"
So there it is.
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05-10-13, 07:07 AM | #1192 |
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Just finished TORPEDO JUNCTION by Homer Hickman jnr really good read highly recommended and on a slightly different note SMILE the story of Brian WILSONS lost masterpiece.
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05-11-13, 01:48 AM | #1193 |
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Mikhail Heller's "Cogs in the Soviet Wheel: the Formation of Soviet Man" from 1988. It's for the thesis so I'm supposed to be motivated, but man, this book is still giving me headache. I was referred to this book by another one from 2009. The author of the latter book said that Heller's book is still one of the few comprehensive studies of the Soviet man and praised it highly. So off I went to library to get it and started reading.
The introduction didn't have anything to do with what the book is supposed to be about: it was Heller's rant about Gorbachev. The book itself has very little to do with the concept of the Soviet man. Heller mostly goes pages and pages about how evil the Soviet system is. He refers to George Orwell's 1984 more than to any, I don't freaking know, proper research or source. There are few good points and very valid observations in there, but they have to be picked up from the text mass that seemingly doesn't relate to anything. Funnily enough I also had a book "Soviet Man" by Georgi Smirnov on my shelf a while ago and found it equally chore to read, but only for a different reason: Smirnov wrote like a devoted Soviet supporter and went on for pages and pages about the imperialist propaganda and how the capitalist countries are envious of the communist glory. It was just as useless, only from an opposite point of view. Not that I wouldn't know how to approach a book -any book-, especially on a controversial subject such as the USSR, but sometimes I have to wonder why didn't I pick an easier subject.
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05-11-13, 01:29 PM | #1194 |
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Now S. Harper´s Kampf um Enigma. Die Jagd auf U-559,
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05-11-13, 05:06 PM | #1195 |
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Just finshed the first of four books by Jonathan Trigg..
Hitler's Gauls The History of the 33rd Waffen SS Divison Charlemagne Now reading his second one.. Hitler's Flemish Lions The History of the 27th SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Divison Langmarck (Flamische NR.1)
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05-11-13, 05:51 PM | #1196 |
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Apparently, I have two large stacks of military books on their way to me from my friend.
I'll post the titles later but apparently there are some good naval books he threw in there for me.
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05-11-13, 11:48 PM | #1197 |
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Here's my take from my friend's 3 large crates of books
Ghost Recon Choke Point-Peter Telep The Hunters-WEB Griffin Red Sand-R. Karl Largent Act of Valor-Dick Couch and George Galdorisi HMS Ulysses-Alistair Maclean Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage-Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew Operation Napoleon-Arnaldur Indridason Close Combat- WEB Griffin The Honor Of Spies-WEB Griffin Victory and Honor-WEB Griffin Marshalling the Faithful: The Marines' First Year in Vietnam-Charles W. Henderson Give Us This Day-Sidney Stewart Secret Honor-WEB Griffin Rites of War- C. A. Mobley Kill Alex Cross-James Patterson A Code For Tomorrow-John J. Gobbell The Intruders-Stephen Coonts Kilo Class-Patrick Robinson Black Wind-Clive Cussler Firing Point-George Wallace and Don Keith That's a pretty good haul I think. Never read any of these but I've heard of many of the authors.
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05-12-13, 02:03 PM | #1198 |
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05-12-13, 04:34 PM | #1199 |
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Looks good! I have an older book on German coastal flotillas which looks to be similar.
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05-13-13, 05:29 AM | #1200 |
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When I first looked at it I was immediately impressed with the amount of comprehensive attention to detail regarding weapons, equipment, flotillas, areas of operations etc. not to mention the abundance of photographs.
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