What are you reading right now?

[Rhodes]

A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower by Kenneth G. Henshall. Very good book about Japan!

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by STEED

Read real history not that bent PC crap that teachers put out these days.

You hit the nail on the head. All the books in history class are edited versions of history. Makes certan contrys look better than other. What realy dissipionts me about history class is that they only spent a hour on WW2 last year. Didnt even mention anything about D-day, battle of the atlanic, ect. Just how bad the Nazi`s were, the turning point of the war, and the discovery of the concertration camps,ect. It is all single storyed. Ive learned more about WW2 through Subsim, Silent hunter with realism mods,internet, than at school. The teachers are made to lie to make certan things seem diffrent. Like in elementry school, They(and dont get me rong any Black subsimmers out there) talk about the civil war like it all was over slaves and say that white people cought them and put them on slave ships, they make white people sound bad, Which makes the black kids start getting angry at the white kids so they start messing with us. Every thing they said happened but not it the way they always say it does.

[Sailor Steve]

History Rule #1) Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. When you have the time, read a good biography. If the author does his job you'll learn about the person, what made him different from those around him, read some of his own writings and find out what others of his time thought of him. History is about people, and the people who make history are always interesting, even when they're bad people.

If you want a fun start, try to watch the recent John Adams miniseries from HBO. It's history at its best: intense, frightening, funny and entertaining.

[wireman]

I finished "Master of the moving sea: The life of Captain Peter John Mathieson". All I can say is "Wow, what a life".

[XLjedi]

Presently, I'm halfway thru:
The Luck of the Draw - The memoir of a WWII Submariner from Savo Island to the Silent Service - Captain C. Kenneth Ruiz, USN

And on deck:
Shinano! - The sinking of Japan's secret supership - Captain Joseph F. Enright, USN

[nikimcbee]

I just started "Dog Whisperer" by Ceaser Milan.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I just started "Dog Whisperer" by Ceaser Milan.

WOOF WOOF.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by STEED

WOOF WOOF.

Good Steed. Sit...Roll over. Here's your treat

[Task Force]

I just remember Ive been reading a book called. The Encylopedia of military aircraft, It covers WW1, WW2, korea, Vietnam, modern warplanes, and peace time planes. over 500 ilistrated pictures, and black and white/color photos with info on all the planes.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Good Steed. Sit...Roll over. Here's your treat

I wanted a cool cider not a luke warm beer.

[wireman]

German Flamethrower Pioneers of World War I by Thomas Wictor

[Sailor Steve]

Was at the bookstore today, and found a very cheap remainder copy of a book I've never even heard of: American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, by Edmund S. Morgan. It won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman prize for historic writing when it was published in 1975.

It's basically a history of how slavery came to be in America, and how it came to an end. I like it because it starts with Francis Drake and the English attitude toward Spanish treatment of the natives in America; they considered themselves liberators, while at the same time giving much the same treatment to the Irish. What's fun for me is that its early chapters read almost like a sequel to Morison's European Discovery of America, which I've just finished.

[RealJambo]

I must have 30+ books on U-Boats and submarines, but I'm currently reading this, about the last surviving British soldier from the WW1 trenches. Quite a story, you can't not respect the man.



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Fightin.../dp/0747591156

[davidg]

Just started the Coldest Winter by David Halberstam so far excellent. Could anyone suggest reading for America's view point on Europe during the inter war years and the lead up to ww11 also America's involvement in Vietnam.

[KampfSchwimmer]

Currently reading D-Day by Stephen Ambrose. I also just read Citizen Soldiers by Ambrose(highly recommended read.) But I'm sure someone here has mentioned these already.