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Devildoc
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ThunderHorse
Verified Military
Nice little article about a Englishwoman who opened an independent book store.
Client Challenge
Trying my best to support more local book stores as I jump back into reading.
Client Challenge
Trying my best to support more local book stores as I jump back into reading.
ThunderHorse
Verified Military
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
Fun read, interesting idea, recruiting old people to fight. It's the first of 7 books, definitely good enough to read number 2.
4 of 5 Chanclas.
Fun read, interesting idea, recruiting old people to fight. It's the first of 7 books, definitely good enough to read number 2.
4 of 5 Chanclas.
Kraut783
SOF Support
Just finished "The Main Enemy"
Was very good and interesting....
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Sho…
Was very good and interesting....
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Sho…
Devildoc
Verified Military
The Cold War. The author is a Harvard history professor and has a pretty clean anti-US bias, but he does a good job of mostly keeping it in check. Great backgrounds on communism and socialism without getting into the weeds of political philosophy.
Recently finished ‘Advances in Decisions Analysis From Foundations to Applications.’ This came recommended to me by a long time DOD contracting officer. The premise of the book is framing issues, identifying risks, eliciting stakeholders holders, and suggesting alternative approaches. It was written by academics and very much reads as if it should be a college class book.
Just ordered three other books that haven’t arrived yet, though I have read at least one of them before online, just adding paper copy to my library.
The first is a book is from 1947 called ‘Wartime Correspondences.’ It’s a series of letters sent between FDR and Pope Pius XII during WW2 and was edited by businessman Myron Taylor who was tasked by FDR to be a personal envoy to the Pope. Taylor urged the US and Allies to not bomb Rome during WW2 in order to save the historical artifacts. For our Cornell grads, the law school there is named after him as he was an alumnus.
The second book is the one I have already read, ‘Nevves From America.’ This book is written by John Underhill about his view of the Pequot War, for which he was one of the commanders. Underhill would later be the Commander in Chief of Rhode Island.
And finally I ordered John Underhill, Captain of New England and New Netherlands, which is also an older book from 1932. It is a biography of John Underhill, who from reading the Wikipedia page sounded like he had quite the life, from a dad who fled England after a failed plot to overthrow the Queen, to leading the colonists against the Pequots, was banished by the Puritans, led attacks against the Lenape, led another attack against a different Indian tribe on Long Island and burned it afterwards, to finally acting as a Chief Advisor to the Lenape (curious how that happened after his group killed between 500 and 700 of them just years earlier).
Myron Taylor is a great great whatever number grandson of John Underhill.
Just ordered three other books that haven’t arrived yet, though I have read at least one of them before online, just adding paper copy to my library.
The first is a book is from 1947 called ‘Wartime Correspondences.’ It’s a series of letters sent between FDR and Pope Pius XII during WW2 and was edited by businessman Myron Taylor who was tasked by FDR to be a personal envoy to the Pope. Taylor urged the US and Allies to not bomb Rome during WW2 in order to save the historical artifacts. For our Cornell grads, the law school there is named after him as he was an alumnus.
The second book is the one I have already read, ‘Nevves From America.’ This book is written by John Underhill about his view of the Pequot War, for which he was one of the commanders. Underhill would later be the Commander in Chief of Rhode Island.
And finally I ordered John Underhill, Captain of New England and New Netherlands, which is also an older book from 1932. It is a biography of John Underhill, who from reading the Wikipedia page sounded like he had quite the life, from a dad who fled England after a failed plot to overthrow the Queen, to leading the colonists against the Pequots, was banished by the Puritans, led attacks against the Lenape, led another attack against a different Indian tribe on Long Island and burned it afterwards, to finally acting as a Chief Advisor to the Lenape (curious how that happened after his group killed between 500 and 700 of them just years earlier).
Myron Taylor is a great great whatever number grandson of John Underhill.
