[AZWolf]

Suck it.......lol.

[homevintner]

 The Phantom Major (Previously published as "Who Dares, Wins")  by V. Cowles. The story of Stirling's raiders in North Africa.

[AZWolf]

Death.  

[rtpoe]

"The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs" by Bill Jenkinson.

An incredible bit of research on every single game played by The Babe. Including post-season and exhibition games. Even though there was no TV, you had several newspapers covering each game. So Jenkinson was able to come up with distance estimates for each and every home run and long fly ball hit by Ruth, and estimates that in modern ballparks, he would have hit over 1,000 home runs in his career, including over 100 in 1923 alone.

Back when he played, centerfield at Yankee Stadium was 490 feet away... And the rule was that a ball going over the fence was fair or foul depending on where it landed, not where it left the field.

Lots of great anecdotes about just how great Babe Ruth was. Makes you appreciate him all the more.

[smiley]

"Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs" by Lewis Page.

How the British Government, BAe and the General Staff have betrayed the British squaddie in the name of political advantage and overpriced pork barrel defence projects.

Some of the facts Page presents put a *whole* new (very unfavourable) complexion on these generals coming out of the woodwork to criticise the PM. Timeservers like Generel Mike Jackson are just as much part of the problem as the Labour apparatchiks and Civil Service drones in Whitehall.

 

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 Grantville Gazette II  - Sequels to  1632  Edited and Created by Eric Flint
 Cutthroats  by Robert C. Dick. A U.S. Sherman tank driver and commander on Leyte and Okinawa
 Dzur  - by Steven Brust. Vlad Taltos is at it again. I really like the comparison of preparing a fine meal to planning an assassination.

[Quadhouse]

John Ringo's  Choosers of the Slain .  

THIS IS IMPORTANT:  Don't read if you don't like reading about one hard core SOB killing terrorists, slavers, rapists, and others.

[homevintner]

 U-Boat War Patrol  by Lawrence Paterson. The photographic diary of U564 under Reinhard Suhren.
 1634: The Ram Rebellion  by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce

[TheZookie007]

Most of the books I've been reading have been techie manuals and whatnot; however, I intend to borrow both The Secret and The Year of Living Biblically from the library, the former to see what all the fuss is about and the latter because I dipped into it the other day and found it to be very funny and interesting.

[rtpoe]

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

So, how long would it take for all the works of Man to crumble away? With no one manning the pumps, New York City's subways flood in two days. Foundations rot away, buildings collapse. Farms turn back into forests. Dogs won't be able to compete with their wild cousins, but cats do nicely... Mount Rushmore lasts, because it's carved into very hard rock. The next species to evolve intelligence will have a mystery on whatever they use for hands.

And would the world be better off without us?

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 Ghost Hunting  by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson

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 Shadow Kingdoms  - Robert E. Howard. A collection of stories first published in  Weird Tales  back in the late 1920's.

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 Working on the Edge  by Spike Walker. This is the book that inspired the Discovery Channel to create "Deadliest Catch". It gets in-freakin'-tense.

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 The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour Of America  by Eric Idle. LMAO!
 American Guerrilla in the Philippines  by Ira Wolfert. The tale of Iliff David Richardson, A PT officer who was stranded on Leyte and was put in charge of the radio network.
 1776  by David McCullough
 Thunder Below!  by Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey. The last five war patrols of the USS Barb by her C.O.

[rtpoe]

Our Dumb World by The Onion.

They manage to find *something* hilarious to say about every country.