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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Doog_de_Jour said:

    Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.

    One of my most recent reads...



    1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,822 Founders Club
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.

    One of my most recent reads...



    1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.
    had to go look up hagiography

    learned a new word today
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    If you're into military history, Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre about the founding of the SAS and their service in WWII and Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor about the founding of Delta, SEAL Team 6 and JSOC.

    Relentless Strike also has a local tie when discussing Delta Operator Steve Langmack who was killed in Iraq in 2005. He went to Kennedy back in the day.

    #MyLancers

    Thanks.

    Read one in last year about the SAS team SCUD hunting & caught discovered by shepherds. Entertaining.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.

    One of my most recent reads...



    1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.
    Finished, excellent book, thank you for the suggestion. I learned a lot. The author does really like himself some Mongols, but he backs it up.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,822 Founders Club
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.

    One of my most recent reads...



    1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.
    Finished, excellent book, thank you for the suggestion. I learned a lot. The author does really like himself some Mongols, but he backs it up.

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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,042 Standard Supporter
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.

    One of my most recent reads...



    1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.
    Finished, excellent book, thank you for the suggestion. I learned a lot. The author does really like himself some Mongols, but he backs it up.
    You’re most welcome. I’m trying to read up more on non-Chinese/Japanese Asian history, and came across that book. I guess the author did another one on the daughters of Genghis Khan but I haven’t read it yet.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    On to this.

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  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    edited July 2019
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    If you're into military history, Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre about the founding of the SAS and their service in WWII and Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor about the founding of Delta, SEAL Team 6 and JSOC.

    Relentless Strike also has a local tie when discussing Delta Operator Steve Langmack who was killed in Iraq in 2005. He went to Kennedy back in the day.

    #MyLancers

    A Man Called Intrepid is an older book about Bill Donovan, head of the OSS in WWII. I recall it being good. When I worked on Encino Man the driver assigned to us was a former WWII pilot whose job was to fly Donovan around in a special C47

    Edit: Intrepid is about William Stephenson, not Bill Donovan, but Donovan played a significant part in the book
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