What Are You Currently Reading?
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Kraut783
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Thanks for the heads up CDG, didn't know this was out.
On a steel horse I ride, the history of the MH-53.
That interests me. Any good?
Finishing up Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. It's a book I have read a few times. Up next is No Easy Day. The wife bought it for me a few years ago but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. This is a long thread and I'm skimming through but does anyone have any good books on leadership?
Long book, but well worth it. I stumbled across it when I was at the Schoolhouse. Author was at the Hurby library doing a signing and giving away some copies.
On a fiction kick lately, just got done reading The Policy by Bentley Little it turns the mundane (in this case, life insurance) on its head and morphs it into a creepy evil force dead set on collecting its "pound of flesh".
Going to reread Stephen Kings "Desperation" next. If you haven't read it, take the hills have eyes and instead of mutated knock off deliverance characters replace them with an ancient Native American god from the underworld hell bent on destroying the world.
Both are great if you're into suspense/thrillers that try and screw with you mentally.
Going to reread Stephen Kings "Desperation" next. If you haven't read it, take the hills have eyes and instead of mutated knock off deliverance characters replace them with an ancient Native American god from the underworld hell bent on destroying the world.
Both are great if you're into suspense/thrillers that try and screw with you mentally.
"One Bullet Away" by Nate Fick.
Gates of Fire was an amazing book. Was "No Easy Day" one of the ones written by a SEAL sell-out? I won't read it. At least, I won't pay to read it.
As far as leadership, I recommend "My Share of the Task" and "Team of Teams."
FWIW for our Kindle users, go to the Kindle book store and click on book deals. On the next page you can sort by subject (you have to scroll down a bit). I've snatched up some very good history books for between 2 and 5 dollars. My next books:
https://www.amazon.com/Jet-Age-Man-...s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1528339766&sr=1-27
https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Sun-F...s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1528339860&sr=1-36
For our airmen out there, the USAF's 5-, 7-, and 9- level test study guides are only two dollars.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Gay-H...s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1528339891&sr=1-63
https://www.amazon.com/Jet-Age-Man-...s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1528339766&sr=1-27
https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Sun-F...s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1528339860&sr=1-36
For our airmen out there, the USAF's 5-, 7-, and 9- level test study guides are only two dollars.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Gay-H...s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1528339891&sr=1-63
Florida173
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Just started reading Rise and Kill First
Kidon activities have been coming to light over the years, sometimes accidentally, a few times embarrassingly. There's credible suspicion Mossad may have killed Arafat with a drug developed by the Institute for Biological Research. Let us know if you like the book. If you do, and want to further your study in this direction, I'd recommend Gideon's Spies, The Secret History of Mossad by Gordon Thomas...which he revises every few years.
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Gebirgsjäger vs Soviet Sailor: Arctic Circle 1942–44 by David Greentree
Good book about Soviet Marines(Naval Infantry) fighting specialized German Mountain troops in the far north of Russia and Finland. It's a interesting read. Both sides got their licks in. Soviet Marines did a good job defending the key port of Murmansk which was essential to keep the flow of Lend Lease supplies coming in from the U.S. and U.K. I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in World War Two and the Ostfront in particular.
Good book about Soviet Marines(Naval Infantry) fighting specialized German Mountain troops in the far north of Russia and Finland. It's a interesting read. Both sides got their licks in. Soviet Marines did a good job defending the key port of Murmansk which was essential to keep the flow of Lend Lease supplies coming in from the U.S. and U.K. I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in World War Two and the Ostfront in particular.
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Devildoc
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If you haven't read it, when you are done read Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War, the book written by the embedded reporter Evan Wright. A totally different perspective on the same people and events.
That book is pretty much my baseline for non-fiction.
Epic book. Detailed indeed @NightTrain. A veritable who's who. I dabbled with the thought of making a hierarchy chart myself just to connect all the dots. Coll has several other books that are as interesting/informative:
- The Bin Ladens: an Arabian Family in the American Century
- Private Empire : ExxonMobil and American Power.
- Directorate S : the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016.
Currently re-reading: Across the Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam by: John Stryker Meyer
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I'd be willing to pay someone upwards of $10 to make me a hierarchy diagram.
I also just read four books in the John Rain and series by Barry Eisler last month. If you like fictional-high-octane-pulp-fiction-man-against-all-odds-assassin thrillers the John Rain and Ben Treven series are pretty awesome.
- John Rain series starts with 'A Clean Kill in Tokyo.'
- Ben Treven series starts with 'Fault Line.'
I am really digging it.
Very thorough, but not dry.
Long book, and it's been sitting for a week or so, but I am starting again this afternoon while my son swims.
