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@YellowSnow just finished the audio version of Retribution. Thank you. Kinda wished I'd read-read it, there was a lot to digest.
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Thanks @Dennis_DeYoung , this is up next.Dennis_DeYoung said:Also - “And a bottle of rum” is fucking incredible.
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Iwo Jima, Philippines, and Okinawa were a total waste of life with the benefit of Captain Hind-site. 2 things won the war really: (1) our subs sunk their entire merchant fleet (something the vaunted Cherman U-Boots could never do to us) and the taking of the Marianas put Japan's cities in easy range of Boeing.GrundleStiltzkin said:@YellowSnow just finished the audio version of Retribution. Thank you. Kinda wished I'd read-read it, there was a lot to digest.
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Some trivia that surprised me: $2 billion for Manhattan Project, $4 billion for Tokyo bombing campaign, $30 billion for European bombing campaign.YellowSnow said:
Iwo Jima, Philippines, and Okinawa were a total waste of life with the benefit of Captain Hind-site. 2 things won the war really: (1) our subs sunk their entire merchant fleet (something the vaunted Cherman U-Boots could never do to us) and the taking of the Marianas put Japan's cities in easy range of Boeing.GrundleStiltzkin said:@YellowSnow just finished the audio version of Retribution. Thank you. Kinda wished I'd read-read it, there was a lot to digest.
The scale of men and material mobilization in under 4 years always astounds me. I never heard the bit out 400 B-29s and 1500 carrier planes flying over the USS Missouri after the surrender documents were signed.
While I'd read a little about it before, the geopolitical finagling between the West and Mao and Chiang Kai Shek was very interesting.
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"... and so Vernon, by luck or by instinct, was well ahead of the movement towards citrus."GrundleStiltzkin said:
Thanks @Dennis_DeYoung , this is up next.Dennis_DeYoung said:Also - “And a bottle of rum” is fucking incredible.
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Thinking you intended to specifically reference this one...PurpleThrobber said:Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
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dirtysouwfdawg said:
Thinking you intended to specifically reference this one...PurpleThrobber said:Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
Most recently, it was this one. Pretty interesting stuff on the micks.
The Big Burn was outstanding too.
I've read most all of Michael Lewis' books. His most recent one is about the ripple effect of the Trump election with regard to government agencies. Someday I'll type the last paragraph on the Tug. It's chilling with regard to politics and the self-inflicted unintended consequences we sometimes inflict on ourselves, hoping to eradicate our perceived woes.
I"m trying to get interested in @Doog_de_Jour 's Ghengis Khan book but haven't hit my stride yet.
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Very entertaining, thank you @Dennis_DeYoungDennis_DeYoung said:Also - “And a bottle of rum” is fucking incredible.
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@Dennis_DeYoung I'm about 1/3 of the way through this book. I wouldn't call it fucking incredible, but it's really good. I will never look at a bottle of Captain Morgan Loco Nut the same way again.Dennis_DeYoung said:Also - “And a bottle of rum” is fucking incredible.
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Agree, fell short of chincredible for me. I did enjoy rum as a device to tell other stories. Fun read.DerekJohnson said:
@Dennis_DeYoung I'm about 1/3 of the way through this book. I wouldn't call it fucking incredible, but it's really good. I will never look at a bottle of Captain Morgan Loco Nut the same way again.Dennis_DeYoung said:Also - “And a bottle of rum” is fucking incredible.
