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First 100 Days of Hitler: Peter Fritzsche.
Extremely well researched and around 360 pages....covers the election period and how things fell into place.
Dreadnought by Robert Massie.
The Impending Crisis by David M. Potter
Both will keep you occupied for a while, both lay out in exquisite detail how things go to hell.
Republic of Texas 2020
‘Apollo 8’ and ‘Grant’
“The Frontiersman” by Alan Eckert. One of the greatest historical narratives ever written.
Suggest you check these out by an author my mother knows. AW is fantastic.
Aphrodite’s Whisper: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43247052-aphrodite-s-whisper?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=QFqG0lBrQi&rank=1
Black Hearts White Bones: https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Black+Hearts+white+bones&qid=mtJX24A0Fm
Crash Dive: The Complete Series (Books 1-6)
Craig DiLouie. WW2 subs.
I just finished an old classic, George Orwell’s Animal Farm
I have read the following books this year:
“All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe” by James Megellas
Most decorated 82nd Airborne paratrooper in WW2. He was deployed from Anzio in 1944 to the postwar occupation in Berlin. Died at age 102 in 2020.
“At War with Spain in 1898” by David Trask
“The Bravest Man: Richard O’Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang” by William Tuohy
“The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won” by Victor David Hanson
“Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man” by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic. My Mom’s name is on page 548 in the acknowledgements.
Read Daniel Kahnemen’s “Noise”. A good analysis of why experts make bad judgements.
Sparrowhawk- Book 1 Cline
The Virginian - Owen Wister
The Haj- Leon Uris
Chesapeake- Michener
It's a story about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from around Burns, Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Wiki --> "Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude. Compelled to do the right thing, they take the girls with them as they continue their perilous trek across the frontier, followed by a vicious gang of killers sent by the whorehouse madam who originally paid for the girls."
I love the way the story weaves the British fighting the Boer War in Africa, the sale of young women in China into prostitution in San Francisco, and the great American West. I'm a big fan of Robert Duvall and I can hear his voice while reading the book. I just found a review by DeltaQueen50 on LibraryThings:
The author wrote the book with Robert Duvall in mind for the older character, and I am guessing he was over the moon when Robert Duvall agreed to play the part in the movie that was made. I have to admit a great part of the enjoyment of this book for me was imagining Robert Duvall as “Uncle Print” Ritter. I enjoyed this book and found it a great escape read.
I couldn't agree more with that review -- good escape read, good historical fiction that weaves together Africa, China, and the US West, and a novel plot.
"1941: The Year Germany Lost the War" [2019] by Andrew Nagorski. This link is to a Library of Congress (LoC) speech and Q&A by the author but the image is from a different Youtube video. I found the LoC talk to be quite fascinating!
To think that in the space of a single year, Germany went from its greatest success to creating its worst nightmare in sowing its own defeat.
Louis L’Amour The Adventure Stories
Includes my favorite hero Ponga Jim Mayo, captain of a merchant ship, lots of short stories mostly set in the far east and south china seas during WWII. Lots of fun adventure easy reads, can do one story a night.
