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Books I've bought in April, so far, some strange reads.Saigon: An Epic Novel of Vietnam
Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization
Isis unveiled
Cuba Libre
Waiting for Sunrise
Stalingrad to Berlin - The German Defeat in the East Illustrated Edition
The Amarnan Kings Book 1: Scarab - Akhenaten
The Amarnan Kings Book 2: Smenkhkare
Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure IslandLooks like a good read, for a change of pace, maybe along the lines of Black Sails, but a different story.
My brother sent me this, just came in the mail today. Can't wait to start reading it..
Gabriel García Márquez
This has been a very good read on road racing in the 50's and 60's culminating with Fords win at Le Mans over Ferrari in the late 60's, great bios on all involved. Can't say enough about the GT40..
They Were Counted.
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Kind Words Saloon
Glorious: A Novel of the American West
Live and Let Die
Went on a book buying binge yesterday for the Kindle, picked up the Bond books for $1.99.They Were Counted
Between the Woods and the Water
In the Light of What We Know: A Novel
Red Jacket: A Lute Bapcat Mystery
Sniper's Honor
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
The Bond novelsOctopussy and the Living Daylights
The Man With the Golden Gun
For Your Eyes Only
The Spy Who Loved Me
Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/LeviathanThey Were Divided
They Were Found Wanting
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II & III: They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided
Fetch the Devil: The Sierra Diablo Murders and Nazi Espionage in America
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy
Picked up from amazon for the reading device.
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Natchez Burning
Parade's End
With the 100th anniversary of WWI a few days away picked this up for some August reading. Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology
Have had a great interest in this archaeological find since I first read about it in the early aughts..Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden
Andrew Collins
Back to central europe and WWI.Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Alexander Watson
Time for a change of pace, to the mortals and gods of ancient Greece.Hercules, My Shipmate
Robert Graves
Atkinson's second book of his Liberation Trilogy.The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Rick Atkinson
A WWI espionage novel, from the writer of "The 39 Steps".
Mr. Standfast
John Buchan
By a coincidence of chance the 2 books I'm reading both mention "Pilgrims Progress" a few times. The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
The Madmen of Benghazi. A French espionage novel.The Madmen of Benghazi: A Malko Linge Novel
Gérard de Villiers
A very good read on and about the orgins of Vietnam's quest for self rule from the French.Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Fredrik Logevall
The World at Night
Alan Furst
Red Gold
Alan Furst
A couple of good spy thrillers to read on a wintery night.
Just received this one in the mail today, finally...At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
Taylor Branch
Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
John S.D. Eisenhower
Another great book about the US AEF in WWI.
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Buddy Levy
Received a Amazon gift card for Xmas, this is the first of many more books for the Kindle to come.Byzantium Endures: The First Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet
Michael Moorcock
His book "Tree of Smoke" was a very good book, have high hopes for this latest one he has written.The Laughing Monsters
Denis Johnson
One of my favorite WWII authors whose scholarship and area of expertise is on the Eastern Front.. The Battle for Moscow
David Stahel
Watched the 1939 John Ford classic "Stagecoach" the other day, and was so impressed with the film, I decided its high time I read a bio on John Wayne.John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Scott Eyman
Picked up a few new ones.A 50's travel book..
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Great American Novel
Philip Roth
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Has been a good read so far.