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On to Everyday Encryption ( Keith M. Martin), not that I'm a complete nerd in the IT manner but it does explain the different elements simply. For maths dummies like me there's an explanatory section at the back to assist with understanding the complexities of it. Well worth it!
 
Two more I'm half way through:
Low Intensity Operations by Frank Kitson which is interesting in light of the BLM issue as it discusses subversion.
The second is Blood Year by David Kilcullen which I read as an essay & is noted somewhere above in this thread. It's now been expanded into book form and more widely available and updated than the essay. It discusses the Islamic State and its rise in intimate detail and makes sense of the multiple strands of what can only be described as a "wicked problem."
 
Shunt: The Story of James Hunt by Tom Rubython. I'm up to his Formula 3 years. Pretty interesting so far. If you saw the movie Rush a few years ago, you've seen a portion of Hunt's story. He was a fascinating guy.
 
Shunt: The Story of James Hunt by Tom Rubython. I'm up to his Formula 3 years. Pretty interesting so far. If you saw the movie Rush a few years ago, you've seen a portion of Hunt's story. He was a fascinating guy.

I read," Senna" a year ago and it was great. I think you just picked my next read. I hope I can find it on my Paper White.
 
Finished up All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr which won the 2015 Pulitzer for fiction. Set in WWII, does the POV character thing pretty well, set around the "Sea of Flames" Diamond, a blind girl Marie-Laure becomes the guardian once her father is arrested, the legend surrounding the stone makes her think she will live forever but lose everyone which seems to be how this goes. A CPL who had attended Schulpforta had triangulated her use of a signal to read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, saves her from a german SGM who is trying to take the stone even though the war is pretty much done in St Malo.

I really enjoyed it.

The third novel in Pierce Brown's Red Rising Trilogy-Morning Star, was a fun read. If none of have any of the books it is set in a Society where everyone is separated by colors, there is a hierarchy within the Society, the golds have been bred as gods. The reds are basically the slaves of the Society, Darrow the protagonist and is rescued from capture and he basically leads the downfall of the society. He had lost his wife when he was a red, but his lover a gold basically stays at arms length while they continue the war...because they had a child together which we find out in the end. It was a really good read, Brown has a GRRM streak in him, killing off a lot good folks. But the good guys achieve their aims, but at a high cost.

Started reading The German War, which is about WWII from the German perspective.
 
I'm halfway through Empire of the Summer Moon and cannot recommend it enough, I'm barely able to put it down. The historical research and accuracy is incredible, and the author's writing style is unique in the nonfiction genre. The frontier showdowns with the Comanches have always interested me, and this book takes the cake.
 
I'm halfway through Empire of the Summer Moon and cannot recommend it enough, I'm barely able to put it down. The historical research and accuracy is incredible, and the author's writing style is unique in the nonfiction genre. The frontier showdowns with the Comanches have always interested me, and this book takes the cake.

If you are interested in the Old West, and gunslingers, Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters: Eugene Cunningham, Joseph G. Rosa, Eugene Manlove Rhodes: 9780806128375: Amazon.com: Books, is a pretty good read.
 
I am currently reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. I enjoy her writing style and this book is no exception.

I also have "discovered" Audio Books to listen to at work. Right now I'm listening to The Last of the Doughboys. It's about tracking down actual living WW1 soldiers in 2003. I want to say bravo zulu to the author. Richard Rubin, for writing this book. The stories in this book were almost lost forever had he not taken on this huge undertaking.
 
Re-reading Clancy's Red Storm Rising. Ahhhh...the good ol' days of the Cold War. A definable enemy, you always knew where you stood, rules of engagement/non-engagement.....

Man I miss the 80s.....
 
Just finished reading No Easy Day. I enjoyed reading it, but there was a lot of detailed information on how DEVGRU operates and train IMO.

Now it's time to read Danger Close" Tactical Air Controllers by Steve Call:thumbsup:
 
I just finished reading Left of Boom. It's written by a CIA case officer who worked in Afghanistan and Syria. It's a very interesting book, and I liked that he talked about how the job affected his personal life. I also like that he left the government censorship in the text as black bars.
 
I recently finished War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars, Al Venter.
It was an excellent covering of Executive Outcomes operations in Angola and Sierra Leone.
That company did amazing work, stunning really.
Not to mention one South African helicopter pilot who almost single handedly saved Sierra Leone from being over run by the savages of the RUF after EO left the country.
The book also went into great detail of the savagery of African conflicts, the beyond brutal torturing of people to death etc...
So much so that I was quite disturbed by it and had to stop reading it periodically. It makes the Taliban/Al Queada/ISIS look like boy scouts in comparison.
 
I just finished the Harry Potter series on Audible read by Jim Dale, was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it.

I also just listened to HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry. Really good and so funny, only con is the first book is the only narrated by Fry.
 
I just finished the Harry Potter series on Audible read by Jim Dale, was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it.

I also just listened to HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry. Really good and so funny, only con is the first book is the only narrated by Fry.

I spend a lot of time in the truck and have been meaning to buy some audio books. I read all the Potter books and the original HitchHiker's Guide. I will look for some next time I'm at Barnes and Noble

I recently finished War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars, Al Venter.
It was an excellent covering of Executive Outcomes operations in Angola and Sierra Leone.
That company did amazing work, stunning really.
Not to mention one South African helicopter pilot who almost single handedly saved Sierra Leone from being over run by the savages of the RUF after EO left the country.
The book also went into great detail of the savagery of African conflicts, the beyond brutal torturing of people to death etc...
So much so that I was quite disturbed by it and had to stop reading it periodically. It makes the Taliban/Al Queada/ISIS look like boy scouts in comparison.


I'll be ordering the War Dog book pretty soon because I've never gotten a bum steer from you regarding books on Africa. ;-):thumbsup:

There are two I'd recommend for you if you haven't read them, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Sterns, about the collapse of the Congo; and The Zulus at War by Adrian Greaves and Xolani Mkhize.
 
I spend a lot of time in the truck and have been meaning to buy some audio books. I read all the Potter books and the original HitchHiker's Guide. I will look for some next time I'm at Barnes and Noble




I'll be ordering the War Dog book pretty soon because I've never gotten a bum steer from you regarding books on Africa. ;-):thumbsup:

There are two I'd recommend for you if you haven't read them, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Sterns, about the collapse of the Congo; and The Zulus at War by Adrian Greaves and Xolani Mkhize.

You should look into the Audible app if you have a smartphone and Bluetooth.
 
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