What are we reading?

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Toonces

I re-started Fire in the Sky by Bergerud.  It's a history of the air war in the South Pacific during WW2.  I also have it's companion Touched by Fire covering the ground war, but only skimmed the beginning.
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JasonPratt

I've read those both some years ago. Much to my surprise, I recall liking the ground war book better, but I thought both did a good job with... how should I say it... the pores of the South Pacific campaigns.

I still occasionally reference a description from TBF, where a Japanese jungle soldier compared the difference in fighting the British and the Americans: the British learned to fight in the jungle nightmarishly well. The Americans knocked down the jungle.
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Gusington

Just finished the first Gears of War comics omnibus. Surprisingly good. About to start the enormous coffee table Terminator Vault: The Complete Story Behind the Making of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Ian Nathan.


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Tripoli

I've been reading " Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China".  I'm about 75% through.  The book provides a good primer on the case for the possibility of a  war with China in the near-term. It is a good, relatively easy read for anyone interested in the topic.  A good review of the book is here: 
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Gusington

Just started A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons.


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nelmsm

Given up on history for a bit and have been reading CJ Box's Joe Pickett series as fast as I can devour them

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ArizonaTank

Half-way through "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes

Hefty and very thorough discussion of the Atom Bomb project.

In addition to the US/UK Manhatten Project, the book also has in-depth discussions of German, Japanese and Soviet programs.

The book is primarily a scientific history. It covers all of the early work, starting before WWI, that eventually led to production of the atom bomb.

The book also very thoroughly discusses the many side branches of the subject.

For example, how the Nazis basically expelled most of the top European nuclear physicists. Most of these scientists, from the elite core like Bohr, Szilard, Teller, Bethe and even Einstein, to hundreds of lesser known men and women, landed mostly in the US or UK. The contribution of these refugee scientists was critical to the program.

The book also explores many other side vents, such as Allied operations to slow the German program. For example, the book includes some thrilling tales around Norwegian resistance operations to thwart German heavy water production.

I am enjoying the book a great deal. But the book does go pretty heavily into the science and does stretch my ability to understand at times.

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes-ebook/dp/B008TRU7SQ?ref_=ast_author_dp

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Gusington

Just finished the 2nd book in The Northern Skies dark fantasy trilogy by Leo Carew, The Spider. Very good. Now about to start Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman.


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I'm reading Operation Pineapple Express by this guy...


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Gusington

Now reading The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, the first book in her Roman Britain trilogy.


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JasonPratt

Ha, Finished It! -- ended the final chapter of Churchill's superlong historical series yesterday, from prehistoric Britain (when it wasn't even an island yet) to the end of WW2!

Phew. Not sure how long that took, two years-ish? (To be fair I've been reading many other books at the same time.)
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!

Sir Slash

About a third of the way through," Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient 1942-43" by the Expert of the East, Prit Buttar. Loving it.
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