Posted on 07/18/2013 11:12:35 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Probably going to re-read some Ayn Rand book and the Iliad.
Unintended Consequences,The Third Reich Almanac.
A Conservative History of the American Left - Daniel J Flynn. From the Pilgrims of Plimoth through the Clintons.
Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime - Richard Pipes. Currently in the chapter 'Communism, Fascism and National Socialism'; everything old is new again.
The Great Deformation - The Corruption of Capitalism in America - David Stockman. Somehow, I wound up with two copies. If anyone wants one, FReepmail me.
Currently ‘The Colonial Experience 1607-1774’, and ‘Phil Sheridan and his Army’ which is about Sheridan in the West, post Civil war.
Your ‘The Guns of August’ is a very good book.
Flight of the Eagle - Conrad Black
The Savior Generals - Victor Davis Hanson
Fate of the State - Meridith Whitney
Lines of Fire - Ralph Peters
Mugged by Ann Coulter among others. The story of San Michele by axel munthe.
BROTHERS OF DOOM. The Story of the Pizarros of Peru. By Hoffman Birney. 322 pp. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 1942
Reading “Red Blood, Black Sand, Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima” by Chuck Tatum, and trying to finish “The Road to Serfdom” by Hayek.
Currently reading The Covenant by Timothy Ballard. Next, either Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis or Being George Washington by Glenn Beck.
Finished a couple of scifi I picked up from the library - don’t recall the titles.
One second after - very good
Complete Knife Throwing Guide by Gil Hibben
Patriots - some good info, but as a story a bit dry/windy
Books of Luke, Mark, Acts
Starting into the four book set of “The good soldier Svejk” also called “The good soldier Schweik”
Oh and a bunch of 60s and 70s comics I picked up for a steal.
COUGAR! by W.W. Brock
“The Arms Of Krupp”, by William Manchester, detailing the history of Germany’s top arms manufacturer. Alfried Krupp was sentenced to 12 years for using slave labor. Sickeneningly, he, like many other Nazi pigs got out of jail early.
Slogging through War and Peace. It’s OK, but I’m not getting what’s so great about it. The Russians seem to be a very, very emotional people, that I will say.
Free Republic and the Bible.
Also "Hound of the Baskervilles".
All the Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell
Anything by Dashiell Hammett;
Anything by Mickey Spillane;
(that’s 16 books, in between watching film noir versions of same)
Big Pulp book of ‘Black Mask’ Stories, and The Big Pulp book.
Lastly, ‘Columbo - The Grassy Knoll’, by
William Harrington
The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans [Kindle Edition]
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