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Read A Continent Explodes: Decolonization, Civil War and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-55 written by Ronald Spector who as an aside is probably one of my more favorite popular military history authors. This might be the third book of his I read and it was a pretty good read. Like the title says...

Read Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea by Noah Andre Trudeau who I assume has no relation to the corrupt Communist Kleptocrat in charge of Kanadia. I really liked the book. As expected, it was about Sherman's famous March during the American Civil War from Atlanta to Savannah from...

Actually sounds pretty interesting. Might be too niche for me. I never read much economic history, I read more history of economic thought which was more interesting to me anyhiow. I did the standard binging of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, and Wealth of Nations but mostly through...

Literally read this in one day. Today in fact so maybe like one morning. It was titled The Bomber Mafia by a Social Psychologist named Malcolm Gladwell. Not... sure if I liked this book. It was pretty awkwardly formatted and he goes into a lot of diversions and digressions and really stuffs...

WARHAMMER CHRONICLES: KNIGHTS OF BRETONNIA I normally read lots of nonfiction, typically non-fiction History because I like the STORY part of history. Herstory... whatever. But I switched it up. Visited a Hobby/Game Shop and while none of the things in there were applicable to me I did stand...

Just finished reading Columbus: The Four Voyages by Laurence Bergreen and whoa, it was a really good book. I learned so much about the man who is coined as the Discoverer of the New World. Along with going into details of his life prior to his first voyage, it covers his three subsequent voyages...

Read Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart Goldman. I started it thinking it'd be a Battle History but the actual component of the Battle of Nomonhan was actually a mere fraction of the book. About half of the book was dealing with Soviet-Japanese relations leading up to the moment including a quip about how...

Finished a book called Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-42 that basically is a naval military history from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Battle of Midway but the first hundred pages really 'set the stage' of the events that are about to unfold. The book is written by Ian W. Toll...

Read two books over the past Month or Month and a Half or so. One was called Battle for Skyline Ridge by former CIA Officer James E. Parker Jr about the War in Laos during the Vietnam War era though more specifically, a region focused around a geographical terrain feature known as 'Skyline...

Just finished reading Richard Frank's book Tower of Skulls which is a history of the Asia-Pacific War from July 1937 to May of 1942. Thankfully unlike that book about the Battle of Manila I read prior, the descriptions of massively heinous war crimes here is somewhat more detached and less...

Just finished Rampage: MacAruthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. Scott and it was a tough read. It was readily readable and accessible, well written and all of that but the thick meat of the book is of course, about the Battle of Manila and unfortunately for my sensibilities, a...

Over the past few weeks I read: Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Lemmons. The book is about the Author who visited Syria multiple times and through interviews with dozens of individuals over a period of three years, helped compile a biographical view of the War in Northeastern Syria from its...

I loved reading Soul of Battle and really enjoyed the story of Epamonidas and how he managed to lead those country bumpkin Thebans to help take apart the radically different society that was Sparta with its yuge helot/slave based economy and secret police and all that jazz. I think his most...

Much like the What are you Watching or Playing Threads in their respective forums, this one is for books you're reading and because I don't want to forget the books in my borrowing history. :p I had a lot of trouble reading or finishing books until I decided to just read them at work on...