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In the last couple of weeks I've read Blackhawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once.

I'm currently working on:

Prange's, Miracle at Midway

Layton's, And I was There

Campbell's, Jutland, An Analysis of the Fighting

Toland's, 1918 (again)

Oh and Keyes, Rachel's Holiday and Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume which were recommended to me by a woman friend, errrr, to paraphrase Chris Rock, a woman I haven't slept with yet. I am a sensitive millennium kinda guy after all

Hi Mojo,
I'm currently reading:
- Eagle Against the Sun, by Ron H. Spector
- Challenge for the Pacific, by Rob Leckie
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks

I'm on a Pacific War reading binge! Although that last one is about people with brain damage.

Originally posted by Oggidoggi
Hi Mojo,
I'm currently reading:
- Eagle Against the Sun, by Ron H. Spector
- Challenge for the Pacific, by Rob Leckie
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks

I'm on a Pacific War reading binge! Although that last one is about people with brain damage.

Bet there's lots of us reading up on the war in the Pacific with UV just out.

BTW if it's not too personal why the interest in the book by Sacks? As it's a subject I personally have some interest in as well.

Hi Mojo,
I'm reading Dr. Sacks' book about brain damage for a report I'm doing in psychology class. Have you ever read this book? It's all about right side brain damage, which affects abstract thought. Scariest book I've ever read! Strange to think that so much of what we perceive as reality, can be altered by a physical change in our brains. Doesn't seem right somehow!

I was also recently on a baseball book binge and read:
- The New Bill James Baseball Abstract, by guess who?
- If I Never Get Back, by D. Brock
- The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, by W.P. Kinsella
- Shoeless Joe, by W.P. Kinsella

Just finished:
"Embracing Defeat" -- Dower (Interesting perspective on Japan during American occupation 1945-50.)
"The Alternative Third World War: 1985-2035" -- Jackson (Not quite as engaging as Hackett's "Third World War", but interesting given certain current events.)

Just Starting:
"The Janissaries" --Goodwin (I was told this is quite good, but I have yet to finish the first chapter, so I can't say myself)

Perpetually Studying:
"Molecular Cell Biology" --Lodish et al.
"Bible" -- God
(currently not sure which of these is more important )

Since january, I've read: "Lords of the Rings" trilogy; Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" and "The Bear and the Dragon"; actually reading "La campagne de l'armée belge en 1940" (The campaign of the Belgian army, 1940).

Currently reading:

Stopped at Stalingrad
The luftwaffe and Hitler's defeat in the east 1942-1943 by Joel s.A. Hayward.

From Normandy to the Ruhr
With the 116th Panzer Division in World War II by Heinz Günther Guderian


As always mostly WWII stuff...

I am reading the latest by Terry Brooks of his Shanara series.

Any of my military fiction though is sufficiently old, that only someone in their 30's would have been alive when it was sold.
I read them on occasion. I am very partial to my collection of old dusty war novels.

I read a lot of text books (I was a very boring teenager once too).

Recent reads would be the latest books from the world of Dune By Frank's son and a co author.

I read Maclean's magazine so I can remain pissed off regularly. And I read Finewoodworking and Canadian Homeworkshop so I can continue the illusion I still have a chance of being a cabinetmaker.

reading now?? not much only comics and ww1/2 books on the toilet. i am halfway dune by frank herbert but ive lost the book.
and started reading Das Boot by lothar gunther bucheim for the second time.

I'm currently re-reading Shelby Foote's "The Civil War - A Narrative". And just out of curiosity, have any of you read any of the Casca series by Barry Sadler?

Originally posted by Dave Briggs
I'm currently re-reading Shelby Foote's "The Civil War - A Narrative". And just out of curiosity, have any of you read any of the Casca series by Barry Sadler?

Haven't read anything by Sadler but I've read Foote's 3 volumes several times. Excellent

I have read the entire Casca series including the most recent release.

Very fun reading. But they are basically "Harelquin novels for men". ie, they are basic simple easy fiction.

Of course that didn't stop me from enjoying them.

I also loved my Leo Kessler novels.

And the Vietnam Ground Zero series was truely fun reading.

I kept the Kessler novels, but sold the others. It seemed a shame. But the reality that I would not be reading them again made keeping them silly.

I have more books to read than years in my lifetime unfortunately.

Hitler Moves East '41-'43 Vol. I

Adolf Hitler: Hubris (book one of a two book biography)

Im reading Shelby Foote's "The Civil War - A Narrative" for the first time.


Ive recently finished all 4 volumes of R. E. Lee by D. S. Freemen
The "Guns of August"
"The Killer Angels"
"A soldiers story"
Guerrilla Warfare : Che Guevara
A very interesting look into revoultionary tactics authored by Che himself.

I'm currently reading(or read in the last months)

-The great strategy of roman empire,by Edward N.Luttwak
-Monte Cassino; by Walter Nardini
-Scipio:a greater than Napoleon;B.H.Liddel Hart
-Panzer Leader,by Heinz Guderian
-Lost Victories,by Field Marshal E.Mainstein
-Rommel's papers,by Rommel
-the western Way of war,by V.Hanson
-Paul Carrell:Opera omnia
-The other side of the hill,by B.H.Liddell Hart

I'm currently reading Death Traps The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II By Belton Y. Cooper

Excellent book. Its the memoir of an ordinance officer who was responsible for recovering and repairing damaged tanks. I never realized what a monumental task that was.

Following the Equator by Mark Twain. Always liked his works.

The Fencing Master by Perez Reverte. Perez really knows his fencing and writes well.

troopie

I'm currently reading Das Reich by James Lucas. I've also got hold of a couple of books second hand: One Of Our Submarines by Edward Young, and H.M.S. Saracen by Douglas Reeman. Are they any good? I would highly recomment Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer, for anyone interested in the Russian front in WWII. I read it twenty years ago, and I cannot recommend it enough!

Sorry about the red script - I didn't realize how annoying it looks

Churchill’s Desert Rats
Operation Iceberg
In Deadly Combat
Company Commander
Burma Victory

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Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom