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Finished "Painted Ladies" another of Robert B. Parker's Spenser series.
 
CWLONGSHOT

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I didn't notice it mentioned, but has anybody read John Taffin's books on the 44 and the 45? I think I might like to read the 45 book I like his writing.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
CWLONGSHOT said:
I didn't notice it mentioned, but has anybody read John Taffin's books on the 44 and the 45? I think I might like to read the 45 book I like his writing.
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I've got one of his older ones but wasn't aware he had newer ones out till Wolfe sent me and sale email flyer. They're on sale now.
 
JWinAZ

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Appropriate for December 7th, I'm reading a memoir of Alvin Kernan titled "Crossing the Line". He enlisted in the Navy just before the attack and was on the Enterprise as she returned to Pearl Harbor just after the attack. He was at Midway and on the Hornet when she was sunk. Quite a story.

"Crossing the Line" is in the Pacific Edition of "World War II Memoirs" which also includes E. B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed" and "Flights of Passage" by Samuel Hynes.
 
Rick H

Rick H

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Just finished "World War II: A Military and Social History" ~ Thomas Childers. Its an audio book part of "The Great Courses" series of lectures.
 
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RicinYakima said:
Company K by William March published 1933 and currently in print.

Autobiographical novel about Company K USMC in WW1. Noted as the most accurate novel of WW1 by a man who was award the French Croix de Guerre, the US Army Distinguished Service Cross, and the Navy Cross for Valor.

Book is a series of short stories about the men of the company during the war and just after the war ended. Not for the faint of heart, and better than Hemingway or Dos Possos every wrote.
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Just finished "Company K" and highly recommend it. I've been reading military themed books since I was in grade school and this book's uniqueness stands it apart and above all the others. To sum it up in two words does not do the book justice, but thought provoking it is.

Bought mine from Thriftbooks, but Amazon also had it.
 
Cadillac Jeff

Cadillac Jeff

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Annette bought me a copy of, One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke

I've watched alone in the Wilderness a documentary of same,a few times so it is nice to read & see it in my mind at the same time.
 
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