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  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Hey fucknuts @pawz , take the malarkey elsewheres.

    I didn't start this one! I'm innocent I tell you. Innocent!

    @GrundleStiltzkin

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  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
    Back to Book Club for @GrundleStiltzkin

    Really really good chit this one.


    https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/about-face-david-h-hackworth/1114220872?ean=9781982144043


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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,545 Founders Club
    YellowSnow said:

    Recently finished Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning

    Definitely recommend. I think he presses at times with some of his predictions, but even if he's only half right, the next 10- 20 are going to be interesting either way.

    @UW_Doog_Bot would like for the Long China is bull shit hot takes.




    Zeihan reads my shit.
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,797 Founders Club
    edited January 2023
    @GrundleStiltzkin this is a book for you buddy… Samurai is a world war 2 book from the perspective of the Japanese pilots [written by Japan’s greatest world war 2 ace] that flew the zero’s, which at that time was the worlds greatest war machine in the air. The other book for you is Iron Coffins which was written by German’s greatest Uboat commander and the only surviving uBoat at the end of the war. Two A+ books, you can thank me later.

    Please give me one back that you know that I’ve never read after you read these. Thanks.
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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,688 Founders Club
    I’ve read 2 of Junger’s books in the last 6 months, War and Tribe.

    War follows a platoon in Afghanistan that Junger was embedded with and Tribe follows inspired conversations he had with members of the platoon after they came home.

    Tribe only lightly touches on those conversations and it’s a rather short book at 135 pages.

    If I could remember how to update the HH Book List, I’d add it.


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

    @GrundleStiltzkin this is a book for you buddy… Samurai is a world war 2 book from the perspective of the Japanese pilots [written by Japan’s greatest world war 2 ace] that flew the zero’s, which at that time was the worlds greatest war machine in the air. The other book for you is Iron Coffins which was written by German’s greatest Uboat commander and the only surviving uBoat at the end of the war. Two A+ books, you can thank me later.

    Please give me one back that you know that I’ve never read after you read these. Thanks.

    @TheRoarOfTheCrowd got an author's name for "Samurai"? There's a million books with that in title. Irregardless, mahalo.
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,797 Founders Club
    edited January 2023
    Sorry, Ieft the exclamation point off of the end… details matter. Here is the book…

    Also available in another edition which i think is cheaper, this is just what i have…

    Here is the paperback..



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

    Sorry, Ieft the exclamation point off of the end… details matter. Here is the book…

    Also available in another edition which i think is cheaper, this is just what i have…

    Here is the paperback..



    Thanks, I shall procure.

    As for suggestions for you...

    If you're looking for military, I recently finished Generation Kill for the third time, outstanding. Earlier in the fall, I read listened to GJ Meyer's Great War books, World Undone and The World Remade, there might be a third. Those are a little less battles and more big picture. I underappreciated WW1's impact on US politics, and what a fuckass Wilson was. The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club about Naval flyers (hai @swaye!!) in Vietnam but also about the fuckery. Masters of Air, about the 9th(?) Air Force Group in Europe, pretty damned harrowing at tims.

    Overall best books I've read recently are Peter Zeihan's.

    Misc: T by Carole Hooven, about testosterone. The accounts of women->transmen starting T are fascinating. Tough Luck, RD Rosen, about Sid Luckman and the evolution of football. Paradise, Lizzie Johson, about the Paradise, CA fire, terrifying. Zero Fail, Carol Leoning, a rather skeptical look at the history of the Secret Service (yeah, they fucksups too). Enemies, Tim Weiner, about the FBI's history of malarkey, actually paired well with Meyer's The World Remade.
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,797 Founders Club
    edited January 2023
    Here are 2 more while I’m at.. these are written with the first person opponents perspective which i like… books liked this are not all of what i like, but i do like this kind of perspective.



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