When I was reading Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World a few months ago once of the reviews said that it was to the battle of Trafalgar what Beevor’s book was to the battle of Stalingrad. After reading…
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Book Review: The Gun by C. J. Chivers
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This is a look at The Gun by C.J. Chivers. Book Details * Hardcover: 496 pages * Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition (October 12, 2010) * ISBN-10: 0743270762 I first learned of the book after seeing review and…
Book Review: Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
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Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan is an odd little book, book dry and unsettling. It’s an academic look at what the Soviets did right and wrong during their occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. When…
Book Review: A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
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Full Disclosure. Circa 2001 I was probably what we would now call a ‘Neo-Con.’ I originally supported the current war in Iraq out of ignorance (of the evidence) and a belief that Bush would always, or at least usually, do…
Quick Book Review: AK47: The Story Of A Gun
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Micheal Hodges’ Ak-47: the Story of a Gun was not what I expected. I was prepared for a detailed account of what Mikhail Kalashnikov went through while designing his eponymous and famous gun, the AK47 [similar to the Gatling book].…
Quick Book Review: Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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Another book that’s been in the queue for a while after being recommended by a friend. This is Marcus Luttrell’s ‘Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.’ Remember a few years…
Quick Book Review: Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel
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I first became aware of this book (Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It, by Julia Keller) after seeing a brief review of it in the WSJ over the summer. The…
Quick Book Review: The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
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I was flipping through my bookcase and realized I’d never made an entry here about Dr. Thomas Woods’s wonderful The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. The front of the book has an endorsement from Dr. Ron Paul, what more…