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To: Tanniker Smith

Nice thread

Top Ten in no order to read for 2007:

-The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey- Candice Millard

-The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution & Revenge by Eileen Welsome

-Intervention at Archangel: Allied Intervention and Russian Counter-Revolution in North Russia, 1918-1920 by Leonid Ivan Strakhovsky

-Persepolis: The Archaeology of Parsa, Seat of the Persian Kings by Donald Newton Wilber

-British Intelligence and the Arab Revolt: The First Modern Intelligence War (Studies in Intelligence) by Paula Mohs

-The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833 by H. V. Bowen

-The Bonus Army : An American Epic by Paul Dickson, Thomas B. Allen

-Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church by Thomas, S.J. Reese

-The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise

-A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable by John Steele Gordon


19 posted on 01/16/2007 9:09:14 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman (The Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt the man doing it!)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Interesting list...thanks


32 posted on 01/16/2007 10:54:33 AM PST by dakine
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Now that's planning. I used to stack them up, but I never seemed to read them in the order that I stacked them. And I'd find new things along the way and bump others down a bit.


37 posted on 01/16/2007 1:27:34 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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