Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

BarnBuster

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What remains : bringing America's missing home from the Vietnam War / Sarah E. Wagner.

The ship of dreams : the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era / Gareth Russell.

The winter army : the World War II odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's elite alpine warriors / Maurice Isserman.

Cruising attitude : tales of crashpads, crew drama, and crazy passengers at 35,000 feet / Heather Poole.

Citizen 865 : the hunt for Hitler's hidden soldiers in America / Debbie Cenziper.

Checkpoint Charlie : the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on earth / Iain MacGregor.

Vicksburg : Grant's campaign that broke the Confederacy / Donald L. Miller.

Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis / Eric Lichtblau.
 

BarnBuster

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Genesis / Robin Cook.

The night fire / Michael Connelly.

The bad food bible : how and why to eat sinfully / Aaron Carroll, MD. @curious2garden

The right kind of crazy : my life as a Navy SEAL, covert operative, and boy scout from hell / Clint Emerson.

Accidental safari : a guide for navigating the challenges that come with aging. / Richard C. Tizzano. (Good for you older folks ;)

Vostok / Steve Alten. (This is an older book by the author of "The Meg" series)

Fifth sun : a new history of the Aztecs / Camilla Townsend.

Hitler : a biography / Peter Longerich

Hitler : a global biography / Brendan Simms (Exhaustive, well documented and footnoted bio, too detailed for me)
 
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BarnBuster

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I was binging "The American" series and decided to reread some of of my favorites of that era from the CI bookshelf:

Spy catcher : the candid autobiography of a senior intelligence officer / Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass

The haunted wood : Soviet espionage in America--the Stalin era / Allen Weinstein, Alexander Vassiliev.

KGB : the inside story of its foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev / Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky

The double-cross system : the incredible true story of how Nazi spies were turned into double agents / by J.C. Masterman

The man without a face : the autobiography of a spymaster / Markus Wolf ; with Anne McElvoy.

American spy : wry reflections on my life in the CIA / H. K. Roy.

The Moscow Rules : The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win The Cold War / Mendez, Antonio J., author.

The Spy In Moscow Station : A Counterspy's Hunt For A Deadly Cold War Threat / Haseltine, Eric

Spies : The Rise And Fall Of The KGB In America / Haynes, John Earl.
 

BarnBuster

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The liberation anniversary of Auschwitz prompted getting some of these:

Auschwitz : technique and operation of the gas chambers / by Jean-Claude Pressac

Commandant of Auschwitz : the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess / translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon ; with an introduction by Lord Russell of Liverpool

Nazis after Hitler : how perpetrators of the Holocaust cheated justice and truth / Donald M. McKale

Five days that shocked the world : eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II / Nicholas Best

The Maginot Line : myth and reality / Anthony Kemp.

The Maginot Line, 1928-45 / William Allcorn ; illustrated by Jeff Vanelle & Vincent Boulanger
 

too larry

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The liberation anniversary of Auschwitz prompted getting some of these:

Auschwitz : technique and operation of the gas chambers / by Jean-Claude Pressac

Commandant of Auschwitz : the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess / translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon ; with an introduction by Lord Russell of Liverpool

Nazis after Hitler : how perpetrators of the Holocaust cheated justice and truth / Donald M. McKale

Five days that shocked the world : eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II / Nicholas Best

The Maginot Line : myth and reality / Anthony Kemp.

The Maginot Line, 1928-45 / William Allcorn ; illustrated by Jeff Vanelle & Vincent Boulanger
I've been going through the books at the river house. Lots of non-fiction including a few good histories. Mostly WWII and/or aviation. The Col {who's house we bought} was a fighter pilot in that war. When I get old and gray, I hope to have time to read them.
 

BarnBuster

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Latest Non Fiction:

(75th Anniversary. Some insight to the fanaticism of both civilians and military, kamikaze bombers and why; "The bomb vs. invasion".)
Bloody Okinawa : the last great battle of World War II / Joseph Wheelan.
Crucible of hell : the heroism and tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 / Saul David

The good assassin : how a Mossad agent and a band of survivors hunted down the Butcher of Latvia / Stephan Talty

Dead reckoning : the story of how Johnny Mitchell and his fighter pilots took on Admiral Yamamoto and avenged Pearl Harbor / Dick Lehr

Overkill : when modern medicine goes too far / Paul A. Offit, M.D.

Fast carbs, slow carbs : the simple truth about food, weight, and disease / David A. Kessler.

Countdown 1945 : the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world / Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss

Red Sea spies : the true story of Mossad's fake diving resort / Raffi Berg

Night of the assassins : the untold story of Hitler's plot to kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin / Howard Blum

Fire in Paradise : an American tragedy / Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano. (For those of us that weren't there, you can read what Paradise went thru)

Epic tomatoes : how to select & grow the best varieties of all time / by Craig LeHoullier.

To wake the giant : a novel of Pearl Harbor / Jeff Shaara. (All of Shaara's books are well written. This is no exception)

The Lincoln conspiracy : the secret plot to kill America's 16th president--and why it failed / Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch.

Kilo : inside the deadliest cocaine cartels--from the jungles to the streets / Toby Muse.

The hunt for history : on the trail of the world's lost treasures-- from the letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the secret recordings onboard JFK's Air Force One / Nathan Raab with Luke Barr
 
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