Jefe,
Just checking in to see if you have tackled any of these books and your thoughts, there were an awful lot of great works thrown out there for you.
I’ve jsut started reading Myths and Facts - A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. It’s very informative and helpful on the subject, especially because it includes information on events since 9/11.
i just read Slaughter House Five. good and funny book :)
Have to agree with you, Ewok. :wink:
As for books… I really suggest The Killer Angels (the book Gettysburg was based on).
i suggest the book Red Storm Rising by Tom clancy about a possible world war 3. good book and very interesting
“How Few Remain” by Harry turtledove was a good book describing the world if the Confederate States of America had won the Civil War in 1862.
Interesting. I’ve always like “What-if” books, and since I’m a Civil War nut, this one is worth checking out. :)
I also like Harry Turtledove’s alt-history books. Unfortunately, he does have a series where WWII came out differently-no A&A, horror of horrors! :D
I just finished an excellent book, called “Life Of Pi”. It doesn’t seem to fit in with the other books that have been suggested here, but it’s a good one! Very good storytelling.
A book that i consider most remarkable:
“Destined to Witness” by Hans J. Massaquoi
(german title: Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger)
have a look at
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0003/black_nazi.html
The web biography was interesting enough to me. :)
Berard Cornwell-
The man is a genius- Sharpe’s series, Starbuck, Archer’s tale etc.
Jefe- if you are going to read AnnCoulter’s recent book then I
Highly reccomend Sam Tannenhaus’ biography Whittaker Chambers.
I read TR Frehenbach’s This Kind of War (it’s about the Korean War)
every June for the last 4 years.
I also reccomend, Stanley Karnow’s, Vietnam.
Recently, I’m reading Ernest R. May’s, Strange Victory. It’s about how the French lost against The Germans in 1940.
-Joseph Ellis’, Founding Brothers.
-John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr’s Venona:
Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.
And Reading the Lord of the Rings Books with my oldest.
