What Books Have You Read Recently

[RicinYakima]

SLA Marshall

"In 1940, he published Blitzkrieg: Armies on Wheels, an analysis of the tactics used by the Wehrmacht, and re-entered the U.S. Army as its chief combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He officially retired in 1960 but acted as an unofficial advisor and historian during the Vietnam War. In total, Marshall wrote over 30 books, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, later made into a film of the same name, as well as The Vietnam Primer, co-authored by Colonel David H. Hackworth."

 

[Mitty38]

Just finishing "Night Passage".
Not a literary work of genius. Not all that thrilling. But an easy, somewhat entertaining, read. Kind of a lazy persons read.
Maybe enough for me to get the second book in the series. The main character is kind of dark and his past is somewhat relieved, but left a slight mystery. Just kind of a beat down guy. Not quite recovering alcoholic. Who lost his marriage and previous job to alcohol.
Who has no patience left for taking crap. Then seams to fall in the midst of a big crap pile of a town.
The most memorable part of the book is the saddest. When he loses his dog. Won't get into how because if I told you there would go half the reason to read the book.

 

[JWinAZ]

Sir Max Hastings' "Abyss, Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962". He provides context about the state of affairs in Cuba, USSR, and the US in the time leading up to the crisis. His critiques of the actions of the people seem well founded if somewhat unsupported. His boorish condescension of U.S. culture is to be expected from a product of the English public school aristocracy. Lots of food for thought here, and pertinent to current world events. He is a very engaging writer, easy to read, even if an unsettling topic.

 

[462]

Michael Connelly's "Angels Flight", the sixth book of his Bosch series.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

...........His critiques of the actions of the people seem well founded if somewhat unsupported. His boorish condescension of U.S. culture is to be expected from a product of the English public school aristocracy.

English authors have the ability to subtlety raise snobbery to an annoying level. I don’t know if that is a product of their education or culture or both.

 

[L Ross]

English authors have the ability to subtlety raise snobbery to an annoying level. I don’t know if that is a product of their education or culture or both.

Must have something to do with wearing rubber knickers and getting caned in their boy's school's.

 

[462]

As posted in this forum, I've read five or six of Hasting's books and must say he is quite the researcher, and I enjoyed and learned from all of them. That said, his syntax and use of the King's English caused many paragraphs to be read more than once.

 

[JWinAZ]

^^^ @462 Your postings encouraged me to read his books. Thank you.

 

[462]

You are welcome, sir.