[rtpoe]

Halsey's Typhoon by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

In WWII's Pacific Theater, the U.S. Navy suffered is heaviest losses not at the hands of the Japanese, but from a typhoon. "Bull" Halsey, in supporting the invasion of the Phillipines in December 1944, ordered his Third Fleet to refuel and resupply. With little weather information (and what he had was poor), he set the rendezvous point right in the path of a typhoon. This is the story of the little ships (USS Hull, USS Spence, USS Monaghan) that didn't make it, and their crew that survived (thanks to the captain of the USS Tabberer, who disobeyed orders to search for survivors).

[notty]

Acacia by David Anthony Durham.  It was a'ight.

[homevintner]

 Marathon Man  by William Goldman
I made the mistake of seeing the movie the night before a dental appointment. I compounded that mistake by telling him that. Of course, his reply was "I love that flick!" His sense of humor is as warped as anybodys' here. Mine included.

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[Sadistyk]

Just finished reading "Citizen Soldiers" by Steven Ambrose not too long ago.  Going to start "Band Of Brothers" by Steven Ambrose again tomorrow.  I've read  Brothers twice already, but it's still a good read and Ambrose is one of my favorite authors when it relates to WWII.

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 Wars of the Irish Kings  by David Willis McCullough

[Blax12]

 
If you are italian or interested in italian books, this is what I read during the last 3 weeks of holidays from work.

"Viva Israele" by Magdi Allam, an egyptian muslim journalist living and working in Italy.
His theory is that the muslim country only have one desire: death and destruction of Israel. While the only thing to do is to adfirm and protect Israel's right to exist as the expression of a cultur of "building" rather than a culture of destroying. It is the description of his life in Egypt as an Isreali hater adn its conversion to the pro-Isreal side.

"The Kennedy. History of a family who signed a century". By Gianni Bisiach. An intersting biography of the Kennedy family. But not very easy to read because of the continous jumping from a point to another. Bisiach is anyweay one of the first journalists who started not believing to the "Oswald-alone" theory.  

"La Casta. How italian politicians became untouchables". By G.A. Stella. A great book about how italian politicians are wasting money. The italian president of the republic is costing to us 4 times what Buckingham Palace costs to the English people. And the President of the region of Sicily is costing more than our president of the repubblic. Each barber in the private barber shop of the House of Representatives earns 100.000 euros per year....

previously I read the book "The Simpsons and the Philosopy". Very nice and well done...


Blax12

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 The Last King  by Michael Curtis Ford. Historical fiction about Mithridites the Great.

[rtpoe]

The Pentagon: The Untold Story of the Wartime Race to Build the Pentagon - And to Restore it Sixty Years Later by Steve Vogel

Built in 17 months, and rushed so fast to meet wartime needs that the builders were often working ahead of the blueprints. The "Battle of the Pentagon" in which Vietnam War protesters invaded. The bomb planted by the Weather Underground. And there's a great deal of eyewitness accounts of the 9-11 attack (which, thank goodness, managed to hit the only part of the building that had been renovated and strengthened at the time!), including one from a man who watched the plane fly right over his head and into the building. Even Donald Rumsfeld gets some credit for running to the scene to see how he could help.

[homevintner]

Back to history.

 Nignt Action  by Captain Peter Dickens. British motor torpedo boats vs German shipping off the Dutch coast.

 Night Raider of the Atlantic  by Terence Roberts. The story of Otto Kretschmer, the U-boat ace of aces.

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 Tin Cans  by Theodore Roscoe. US destroyer and DE action from WWII.

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 Victory - Into the Fire  Edited and introduced by Stephen Coonts. WWII fiction by Harold Coyle, Harold Robbins, and R.J. Pinero.

[DruulEmpire]

Whoa, rtpoe, good call (sorry to have neglected this thread so long) -- I bought The Pentagon (the book, obviously) for my father.

[Windlord]

Darwin's Radio & Darwin Childs both by Greg Bear. It's an interesting series devoted to analysis the social reaction if suddenly a new human species appeared in our modern world. Part is writen in a thriller way like Da Vinci code, but with a good hard sci fi argument.

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 Six Days of the Condor  by James Grady

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 Navy Diver  by Joseph Sidney Karneke with Victor Boesen