Book recommendations
06-14-2020, 11:01 PM
#141
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Originally Posted by PilotFrog
The Aubrey and Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian starts with Master and Commander which of course is much different than the movie.
06-15-2020, 07:51 AM
#143
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Originally Posted by deltabound
OMG, Fantastic book.
Imagine the USSR getting caught tapping “secure” comm lines next to New Orleans with a submarine in the Mississippi River.
USN did all kinds of crazy S...T like this in the Cold War. God bless them, and F the filthy commies. Wish I could get you Navy types to leak a bit more...
Great book. I doubt this is a tenth of the skullduggery USN was up to.
Imagine the USSR getting caught tapping “secure” comm lines next to New Orleans with a submarine in the Mississippi River.
USN did all kinds of crazy S...T like this in the Cold War. God bless them, and F the filthy commies. Wish I could get you Navy types to leak a bit more...
Great book. I doubt this is a tenth of the skullduggery USN was up to.
06-15-2020, 09:52 AM
#144
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West With The Night, by Beryl Markham, is one of the best books I've read in the last ten years. Markham was an aviation pioneer in Africa and her adventures are amazing. Combine her reminiscences with a prose style that ranks among the very best of her generation, and you get an aviation classic.
06-15-2020, 02:53 PM
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“Boyd: the fighter pilot who changed the art of war” (Coram) Incredibly entertaining and interesting biography
“Influence” (Cialdini) Easy to follow manual on how to not be a sucker
“The lessons of history” (Durant) Incredibly beneficial information delivered without excessive explanation
“Influence” (Cialdini) Easy to follow manual on how to not be a sucker
“The lessons of history” (Durant) Incredibly beneficial information delivered without excessive explanation
06-15-2020, 03:57 PM
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Go like hell by AJ Baime on Ford vs Ferrari
enjoyed that. I guess blind man’s bluff next
Two years ago I enjoyed Michael Collins (from Apollo 11) carrying the fire. Lindbergh wrote the introduction.
enjoyed that. I guess blind man’s bluff next
Two years ago I enjoyed Michael Collins (from Apollo 11) carrying the fire. Lindbergh wrote the introduction.
06-26-2020, 06:57 PM
#150
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“Quartered Safe Out Here” - George Macdonald Fraser.
WWII Burma campaign as recollected by a British Lance Corporal. GET THE AUDIBLE book. Extremely well done, grisly, but funny as hell. Professionally narrated by someone who does all UK accents perfectly. This is a pre 2000, non-PC infantry great book.
“Get your thumbs out of your bums and mind out of neutral.”
WWII Burma campaign as recollected by a British Lance Corporal. GET THE AUDIBLE book. Extremely well done, grisly, but funny as hell. Professionally narrated by someone who does all UK accents perfectly. This is a pre 2000, non-PC infantry great book.
“Get your thumbs out of your bums and mind out of neutral.”
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