Same for some of the 1990's Tombstone scenes.
This one really filled in a void I had for knowledge of that era.
I found my copy in a used bookstore and it's available on Amazon.
Posted on 12/06/2016 6:28:58 PM PST by Veggie Todd
After surgery, I'll be in the hospital for about five days. Not sure how much lucid time I'll have, but I want to take a good book. I like Nonfiction, History, Autobiographies, and of course, America.
“The Forgotten Man”
“The Myth of the Robber Barons” — exciting story of America’s early capitalists and tycoons,
+1 for “Winess.” You cannot understand the evils of communism without reading it.
Yes those are good as are CS Forester’s Hornblower series. Napoleon and his era interest me. I found this webpage a great resource for finding novels set in that period. http://www.historicalnovels.info/Napoleonic.html
+1 for “The Virginian.” I stumbled upon it a couple summers back and really enjoyed it.
Just finished “The Black Cloud” — 1954 sci fi about an interstellar gas cloud that enters the solar system.
lovely nonsense.
Prayers for successful surgery and a speedy recovery.
Please explain what you’re talking about.
Same for some of the 1990's Tombstone scenes.
This one really filled in a void I had for knowledge of that era.
I found my copy in a used bookstore and it's available on Amazon.
"Rebels And Redcoats: The American Revolution
Through The Eyes Of Those That Fought And Lived It"
By George F. Scheer & Hugh F. Rankin
This is one of the best pieces of historical non-fiction I've ever read. I couldn't put it down, and as a woman, normally have little interest in war stories. It was recommended by both my husband and daughter.
"The former German U-boat commander Herbert Werner navigates readers through the waters of World War II, recounting four years of the most significant and savage battles. By war's end, 28,000 out of 39,000 German sailors had disappeared beneath the waves."
United States Constitution. It is a short read and then the “Gulag Archipelago” which is a very long read. It will tell you why that short document, the United States Constitution, is the greatest document every written, if we only follow its words. If we do not follow its words, we are doomed.
After some interesting successes with creating real-world organizational utopias over the last few years, he is putting the recipe out there for anyone who cares to pay attention. Though his writing remains highly technical, it's necessary, because Livingston basically develops a mathematical physics of people working in groups. The new books, however, are highly entertaining and rich in real-world examples, both historical and up-to-the-minute. The books are $2.99 each on Amazon, though the first three are "free" to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
Come January (after some heavy deadlines) I'm considering leading an FR book club through these books. Meanwhile, you can get a head start at:
Pilgrimage to Utopia: Book 1: Philosophy
Pilgrimage to Utopia: Book 2: Dystopia/
Pilgrimage to Utopia: Book 3: Utopia
Pilgrimage to Utopia: Book 4: Way Stations
Zora Neal Huston’s “Waiting on God” or Patrick D. Smith’s “A Land Remembered”.
Both are Florida history.
“And I was There” by ret. Adm. Edwin T. Layton about breaking the Japanese naval code & how this was squandered by the U.S. intelligence establishment in the days prior to Pearl Harbor. No FDR conspiracy, just a series of turf battles & monumental screwups.
Pearl could have been primed & ready on December 7th.
I remember that one, but it was Lewis who got shot by one of the men:
http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/3011
jus opposite to the birnt hills there happened to be a herd of Elk on a thick willow bar and . . . I determined to land and kill some of them accordingly we put too and I went out with Cruzatte only. we fired on the Elk I killed one and he wounded another, we reloaded our guns and took different routs through the thick willows in pursuit of the Elk; I was in the act of firing on the Elk a second time when a ball struck my left thye about an inch below my hip joint, missing the bone it passed through the left thye and cut the thickness of the bullet across the hinder part of te right thye; the stroke was very severe . . .
I do not beleive that the fellow did it intentionally but after finding that he had shot me was anxious to conceal his knowledge of having done so.
the ball had lodged in my breeches which I knew to be the ball of the short rifles such as that he had, and there being no person out with me but him and no indians that we could discover I have no doubt in my own mind of his having shot me. with the assistance of Sergt. Gass I took off my cloaths and dressed my wounds myself as well as I could, introducing tents of patent int into the ball holes, the wounds blead considerably but I was hapy to find that it had touched neither bone nor artery.
IIRC, this was on the way back home, and he had to ride quite awhile face down in the canoe so as not to aggravate the wound.
That is correct. They were impressive men. I raised my kids (boys and girls) with that world view as an ideal. If you imagine today’s snowflakes (not all millennial kids but the ones raised to be sissies) on that expedition, it would have turned out quite differently.
Anything by Bernard Cornwell, which is historical fiction, especially his novels about the Early English era, and any of his novels about Richard Sharpe in the Napoleonic war era. Anything by Michael Connelly or Lee Child (Jack Reacher series) for fictional thrillers.
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