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Damn good book. REI did a good job in the book too.
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Just finishing The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers.
I've read a lot of books on 9/11 and this is one of the best. It talks about everything, facts, conspiracies, commission omissions, and things I've never heard of and all in a very readable, easy to ingest manner...which makes it a great read for the novice. Highly recommended.
I've read a lot of books on 9/11 and this is one of the best. It talks about everything, facts, conspiracies, commission omissions, and things I've never heard of and all in a very readable, easy to ingest manner...which makes it a great read for the novice. Highly recommended.
Can I suggest adding ISBN numbers for the books mentioned? If one wants to follow up it will make them easier to order.
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Just started Nicholas Irving's book, The Reaper. It is very good so far!\
Just finished Modern American Snipers by Chris Martin and the Mission, Men, and Me by Pete Blaber
As DasBoot said, Modern American Snipers is a great.
The Mission, Men, and Me is a very easy read about common sense leadership putting a solid foundation to that idea(his favorite word is context). After reading the reflective lessons at the end of each chapter, you are left saying "Well, damn that makes perfect sense. Why didn't they do that?" They being the command structures that Blaber works with.
Now it's on to Things That Matter-Krauthammer and The Generals-Tom Ricks
As DasBoot said, Modern American Snipers is a great.
The Mission, Men, and Me is a very easy read about common sense leadership putting a solid foundation to that idea(his favorite word is context). After reading the reflective lessons at the end of each chapter, you are left saying "Well, damn that makes perfect sense. Why didn't they do that?" They being the command structures that Blaber works with.
Now it's on to Things That Matter-Krauthammer and The Generals-Tom Ricks
I finished The Reaper, and I thought it was a great book. I would highly recommend it.
I have decided to crack open a previous book. One that haunts, but not like a typical "war book." This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust (current president of Harvard) is about the Civil War, but from a different perspective. It's military history from the socio-psychological perspective, but not in the feel good, "what have we learned, class?" kind of way.
It examines the effect of the sheer magnitude of the Civil War--in terms of sheer numbers of casualties, and WHO the "enemy" was--on the psyche and culture of soldiers, citizens, and society at large. In today's terms, over 6 million Americans would be killed in four years. That doesn't even account for the horribly wounded. Just think of the effects of that, and knowing that we did it to each other.
It looks at how perspectives changed over time--from before the war to the time it ended. How soldiers viewed the act of dying itself; the act of killing another; how even the act of burial changed; how mourning changed; etc.
So if you're looking for a different view of military history, I highly recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/This-Republic-Suffering-American-Vintage/dp/0375703837
It examines the effect of the sheer magnitude of the Civil War--in terms of sheer numbers of casualties, and WHO the "enemy" was--on the psyche and culture of soldiers, citizens, and society at large. In today's terms, over 6 million Americans would be killed in four years. That doesn't even account for the horribly wounded. Just think of the effects of that, and knowing that we did it to each other.
It looks at how perspectives changed over time--from before the war to the time it ended. How soldiers viewed the act of dying itself; the act of killing another; how even the act of burial changed; how mourning changed; etc.
So if you're looking for a different view of military history, I highly recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/This-Republic-Suffering-American-Vintage/dp/0375703837
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Sounds interesting, Wench. Putting it on my to-read list. It's a short list, doncha know... :-/
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HAHAHA! I understood the sarcasm in your post, but I gave you a Disagree anyway. Think of it like hate from @pardus but with warmth. My constitution is such that I can't hate, don't hate, and won't hate. I Disagree which is Hate with a rainbow and the promise of a better day.
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Is that as in "Rainbow-pooping unicorns" (ie, unicorns whose fecal matter takes the form of a multi-colored prismic roadmap to a pot of gold projected into the sky), or as in a rainbow which happens to excrete unicorns?
I'll have to add that to my "Questions for a Leprechaun" list.
Back on topic: Class 11. Not a bad book, but wouldn't get a recommendation unless you're bored. The author seems to have a very smug opinion of himself, and his writing is the polar opposite of what I saw from Gene Krantz (Failure Is Not An Option).
Speaking of rainbow pooping unicorns, I'm taking a break from military stuff and re-reading George RR Martin's A Dance with Dragons while I wait for him to get off his hairy ass and finish The Winds of Winter.
You have at least a year.
You're kidding. He finished this one in 2011. WTF has he been doing the last 4 years?
You're kidding. He finished this one in 2011. WTF has he been doing the last 4 years?
This is a heated topic between myself and another member of the site. To say that we'd like to "Misery" him into the final two books is an understatement. The whole thing is a mess and he's made it a mess.
That's interesting. He looks (and I'm no doctor and I don't play one on TV) like he's gonna fuckin die before he gets the whole thing wrapped up. He's fat, outta shape and probably smokes dope. I give him 5 years.
He looks jaundiced in some interviews. I honestly think him living to publish Book 7 will be a small miracle.
