Posted on 12/31/2010 7:25:35 AM PST by MplsSteve
Hello everyone!
it's time for my quarterly "What Are You reading Now?" survey. As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read of those of us out in cyberspace. As a result, I like to find out what you're reading.
It can be anything...a technical journal, a NY TImes bestseller, a trashy pulp novel, in short, it can be anything. Please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". It became very unfunny a long long time ago.
I'll start. I went to the library and picked up a copy of "Sam Walton, Made In America: My Story" by Sam Walton. I'm not the entreprenurial type myself and I'm only about 20% of the way thru the book - but I find it interesting how he built Wal-Mart to be such a powerhouse of a corporation. Some of the ideas he talks about can actually be put to use in almost any type of corporate environment.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
riveting.
I am currently reading Rhodes book on the Einsatzgruppen activities in the east during barbarossa...DVR’d a NatGeo special recently on the same subject, and was surprised to see Rhodes interviewed during the program.
I visited the museum at Dachau a few months ago while on a business trip to munich, and it re-fired my interest in this particular subject.
am just recently delving into Roman history in greater detail...am finding that fascinating, also.
I am also a WWII junkie...started in grade school with aircraft, and expanded from there. I am still an aircraft junkie.....although I have expanded that passion into jets over the years. Still like the warbirds, though.
I spent alot of time studying barbarossa and the ensuing conflict.
Just recently started to delve into Roman history, and am finding that fascinating, too..
Alexander Hamilton - American by Richard Brookhiser
I wasn’t a fan of Hamilton, felt more like a Jeffersonian, though not in everything, but came away with not only a respect, but a love for this flawed, but earnest Founder.
Hamilton did more to shape our nation than we realize.
Chesty - biography of Lt Gen Lewis Burwell Puller, USMC.
Sax Rohmer’s “The Day the World Ended”.
Ethical Oil: The case for Canada’s Oil Sands.
A signed and dedicated copy, by Ezra Levant.
Thanks for the ping Civ.
You might like: The Blond Knight of Germany by Raymond F. Toliver and Trevor J. Constable
It’s about ace of aces German Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann with 352 aerial kills.
For a thorough understanding of military history, try board wargaming. Not computer crap; that’s for children and the weak of mind. Board wargaming requires knowledge and intelligence.
We have a board wargaming club here at school. Both teachers and students are involved.
As I mentioned in my profile, Advanced Squad Leader is my specialty. It’s a very advanced WWII wargame. There are other, simpler but very interesting games covering the Roman wars, the War Between the States, etc. I always recommend this hobby to my serious students.
Just google board wargames. There’s a ton of them.
Oh, and for the Eastern Front studies, you have to read all of David Glantz’ books. He’s the foremost scholar on the subject since the Russians opened their archives to everyone.
I have every one of his in my library, and am really looking forward to his third volume on Stalingrad.
Walter Williams’ Memoir: Up from the Projects
“Beating The Street” by Lynch and “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Carnegie.
I am reading your post on freerepublic!
Not me. I'm waiting for the movie.
I just finished “Deep Ancestry — Inside the Genographic Project” by Spencer Wells. It is a good description of how the ancestry and migration paths of humans can be traced back to Africa through mutations of their DNA. A cousin had his DNA analyzed, and our male line can be traced back to very, very ancient Greece, and then into western Europe, then they think to ancient Scotland shortly after the glaciers retreated. My ancestors were Picts who stood off the Roman legions! It is fascinating what they can do with DNA.
Currently I am about to start “Ratification — The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788” by Pauline Maire.
I have about 150 linear feet of books in my home library. This translates to about 1,500+ volumes. I’ve been looking into getting a Kindle 3, but the negative reviews on Amazon (one and two stars, about 8 percent of the total reviews) convinced me to wait until they get the manufacturing or software kinks out of it. I’ll eventually get one.
“The First Expulsions and Ethnic Cleansing of Greeks in Thrace 1913-1918” by Vasiliki Tsakoglou - in Greek
This fully referenced work demonstrates the maniacal horrors perpetrated by the Turks and their allies the Germans-—it served as a training ground for future genocides committed by Muslim Turks and their allies the Germans.
http://www.thraciangenocide.org/
Grazer that I am, I have bookmarks in quite a few books:
BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA (I’m into Southern culture, lately)
THE INQUISITION (I see the same mentality nowadays — scary)
KOSHER NATION (the joys of rabbinic supervision)
Grazer that I am, I have bookmarks in quite a few books:
BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA (I’m into Southern culture, lately)
THE INQUISITION (I see the same mentality nowadays — scary)
KOSHER NATION (the joys of rabbinic supervision)
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