What Are You Currently Reading?

Just finished "Fearless" by Eric Blehm. Fantastic and downright unbelieveable story about Navy SEAL Chief (SOC) Adam Brown.
Just started "The Only Thing Worth Dying For" also by Eric Blehm.
 
This will be my next book:

Abbottabad Revisited

Osama bin Laden evaded the world’s greatest manhunt for a decade. The Exile reveals for the first time exactly how. What makes this account unique is the unprecedented access that the authors, the renowned British investigative journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, secured to bin Laden’s four wives and his surviving progeny; an astonishing array of al-Qaeda commanders, foot soldiers, ideologues, and lackeys; and the American and Pakistani officials, soldiers, and intelligence officers respectively responsible for hunting or sheltering him. The Exile, accordingly, provides the most definitive account available of bin Laden’s increasingly fraught existence in an over-crowded, ramshackle villa just a stone’s throw from Pakistan’s version of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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I tend to bounce around from author to author. Right now I am on a Jeffery Archer kick.

Halfway thru Kane and Abel, and then will do the follow up, The Prodigal Daughter. He is an amazing story teller, and I highly recommend the two books I referenced above, along with:
- As the Crow Flies
- The Forth Estate
- Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less
- Honor Among Thieves
 
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The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President by Edward Klein.
 
Still on this, I've read a few books in between, but god this is a heavy read. Basically if you want to know in exacting detail how the Germans fought the war and then add in the social history perspective with correspondence, this is it.
ThunderHorse said:
Started reading The German War, which is about WWII from the German perspective.
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Cool, a book thread!

Currently reading: Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You, The Shield of Achilles
 
I just finished 'Shield of Achilles' - really fascinating, all the more so when the guy finished writing it right after 9/11 and it had been a 10 year project. I think his predictions about the market state in the last 15 years offer phenomenal insights.

It's a long book, but if you read the introductory essay and/or his three major summaries of sections you will understand his argument. The other 800 pages are just the details of his case - which are still very interesting.
 
Five Years to Freedom - James N. Rowe
The Face of Battle - John Keegan

Both are on the "I'll support you whatever you do but be sure and read these books" required reading list given to me by my Dad upon hearing my plans for military service.
 
PCRWizard said:
Five Years to Freedom - James N. Rowe
The Face of Battle - John Keegan

Both are on the "I'll support you whatever you do but be sure and read these books" required reading list given to me by my Dad upon hearing my plans for military service.
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Anything by John Keegan should be required reading for professionals (or anybody with military plans or interests). A brilliant military analyst and historian. I believe he also taught at RMA Sandhurst.
 
Finishing this:
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Then starting this:
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Kraut783 said:
I hope you like Jawbreaker....I though it was really good!
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Same here though their fact checking could use some work. There were a number of little errors that shouldn't happen, like assaying something was "25 km" away when it is 25 miles down the road.
 

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