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Royce A. Ratterman
I never stop traveling... through history, autobiographies, biographies, and other nonfiction lands of fascinating enchantment. Times spent with monarchs and leaders throughout their lives hundreds of years ago - Free vacations!
I enjoy watching from the safe distance of the written page all the while retaining that 'bird's eye view' of events... the good, the bad, and the twists and turns ahead.
-- Examples of past vacations:
-1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
-The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-1381 The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
-Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II -Peter Williams & David Wallace
-The Secret Betrayal, Nikolai Tolstoy / Victims of Yalta, Tolstoy
-King John by W.L. Warren Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode
-Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
-Yermak’s Campaign in Siberia by Terence Armstrong
-History of the Russian Revolution
-The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe, Explorer
-From the Cape to Cairo by Ewart S. Grogan
-The Discovery of the Amazon According to the Account of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal and Other Documents
-Through the Kalahari Desert
-Through Tibet to Everest
-The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek (1944)
-The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1949)
-The Spy Who Came in from the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
-Saladin The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire by John Man (1137-1193)
-Great Eagle Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror by Aytaoc Eozkan (1432-1481)
-Suleiman the Magnificent: Scourge of Heaven (1494-1566)
-Strike First!: A Battle History of Israel's Six-Day War by Dayan, David
-The Sikh Religion and the Sikh People by Dr Sukhbir Singh Kapoor
-History of India by Kulke
-America Against America by Wang Huning
-Notes on a Cowardly Lion: the Biography of Bert Lahr
-Hachiko Waits by Newman, Leslea
-Chemical Warfare in Australia: Australia's Involvement in Chemical Warfare 1914 to Today
-Excavations at Cill Donnain: A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist: 9 by Mike Parker Pearson & Marek Zvelebil
-The Natashas: The Horrific Inside Story of Slavery, Rape, and Murder in the Global Sex Trade
-Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire by Eve M. Troutt Powell
-Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 by R. Davis
-Slavery in the Islamic World by Mary Ann Fay
I never stop traveling... through history, autobiographies, biographies, and other nonfiction lands of fascinating enchantment. Times spent with monarchs and leaders throughout their lives hundreds of years ago - Free vacations!
I enjoy watching from the safe distance of the written page all the while retaining that 'bird's eye view' of events... the good, the bad, and the twists and turns ahead.
-- Examples of past vacations:
-1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
-The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-1381 The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
-Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II -Peter Williams & David Wallace
-The Secret Betrayal, Nikolai Tolstoy / Victims of Yalta, Tolstoy
-King John by W.L. Warren Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode
-Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
-Yermak’s Campaign in Siberia by Terence Armstrong
-History of the Russian Revolution
-The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe, Explorer
-From the Cape to Cairo by Ewart S. Grogan
-The Discovery of the Amazon According to the Account of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal and Other Documents
-Through the Kalahari Desert
-Through Tibet to Everest
-The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek (1944)
-The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1949)
-The Spy Who Came in from the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
-Saladin The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire by John Man (1137-1193)
-Great Eagle Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror by Aytaoc Eozkan (1432-1481)
-Suleiman the Magnificent: Scourge of Heaven (1494-1566)
-Strike First!: A Battle History of Israel's Six-Day War by Dayan, David
-The Sikh Religion and the Sikh People by Dr Sukhbir Singh Kapoor
-History of India by Kulke
-America Against America by Wang Huning
-Notes on a Cowardly Lion: the Biography of Bert Lahr
-Hachiko Waits by Newman, Leslea
-Chemical Warfare in Australia: Australia's Involvement in Chemical Warfare 1914 to Today
-Excavations at Cill Donnain: A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist: 9 by Mike Parker Pearson & Marek Zvelebil
-The Natashas: The Horrific Inside Story of Slavery, Rape, and Murder in the Global Sex Trade
-Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire by Eve M. Troutt Powell
-Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 by R. Davis
-Slavery in the Islamic World by Mary Ann Fay
Royce A. Ratterman
The Horror Story in progress...
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
A 3rd bonus sentence: "The loss and restriction of words, instead of gains, is designed to diminish thought rather than help expression."
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
A 3rd bonus sentence: "The loss and restriction of words, instead of gains, is designed to diminish thought rather than help expression."
Royce A. Ratterman
Caroline Creek Chaos by Mose J Gingerich
The Red Baron by Manfred von Richthofen
Peter the Great: The compelling story of the man who created modern Russia, founded St Petersburg and made his country part of Europe by Robert K. Massie
From Peasant to Patriarch: Account of the Birth, Uprising, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia by Ioann Shusherin
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
Mafia Democracy: How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket
-- And if time permits:
-August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
-1914 Peace and War | shetlandtimes.co.uk
-1915 War | shetlandtimes.co.uk
-Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There
-Storm of Steel Ernst Jünger
-Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - Siegfried Sassoon
-The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
The Red Baron by Manfred von Richthofen
Peter the Great: The compelling story of the man who created modern Russia, founded St Petersburg and made his country part of Europe by Robert K. Massie
From Peasant to Patriarch: Account of the Birth, Uprising, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia by Ioann Shusherin
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
Mafia Democracy: How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket
-- And if time permits:
-August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
-1914 Peace and War | shetlandtimes.co.uk
-1915 War | shetlandtimes.co.uk
-Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There
-Storm of Steel Ernst Jünger
-Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - Siegfried Sassoon
-The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Royce A. Ratterman
The disappearance of neighborhood university student Judy Williamson c. 1962... eventually solved decades later.
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