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Mike's Travels 2025
So far...........15 different countries and 2 different Canadian Provinces. Mostly non-fiction.
21 books, but I have been to some countries more than once -16 different countries
2 Native American Indian Tribes
2 Canadian Provinces
2 Countries more than once
Over to the Mideast to Turkey - Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Hopping the border to PolandAgent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
2025 - April Summary to Date:35 Books from around the world
North America - 2 Native American Tribes, 2 Canadian Provinces and 1 Alaska
Central America - 1
South America - 2
Asia - 9 (Philippines twice)
Europe 11
Africa 4 (Congo twice)
Arctic 1
30 Non-fiction, 5 Fiction
Total - 33 Different countries, tribes, or Canadian provinces
Back to Nova Scotia, Canada - First Degree: From Med School to Murder The Story Behind the Shocking Will Sandeson Trial
How about Cuba? - The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War
Mike wrote: "On to Navaho Land.Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
"Is it out now? Have to read it!
Sophie wrote: "Mike wrote: "On to Navaho Land.Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
"Is it..."
It is out and a good read, though I found it rushed at the end.
Fresh mountain air in the Austrian TyrolThe Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
Kuwait is where for now I will wait.Flight 149: A Hostage Crisis, a Secret Special Forces Unit, and the Origins of the Gulf War
2025 - May Summary to Date:42 Books from around the world
North America - 8 (3 Native American Tribes, 2 Canadian Provinces (Nova Scotia twice) and 1 Alaska)
Central America - 2
South America - 2
Asia - 12 (Philippines twice)
Europe 12
Oceana 1
Africa 4 (Congo twice)
Arctic 1
35 Non-fiction, 7 Fiction
Total - 39 Different countries, tribes, or Canadian provinces
Perhaps a Hungarian rhapsody - The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
Time for a ride through China on the Peking Express.The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
Across the burning sandsCame the caravans ..........with me in tow.
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
2025 - June Summary to Date:49 Books from around the world
North America - 8 (3 Native American Tribes, 2 Canadian Provinces (Nova Scotia twice) and 1 Alaska)
Central America - 2
South America - 3
Asia - 14 (Philippines twice)
Europe 15
Oceana 1
Africa 4 (Congo twice)
Arctic 1
41 Non-fiction, 8 Fiction
Total - 46 Different countries, tribes, or Canadian provinces
Let's look at the big ditch - on to Panama.Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States- And Made Millions in Drugs and Arms
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in GuatemalaTime for a cup of coffee
Around the World in 80 Books
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Scalp Dance, A Sam Chitto Mystery (Choctaw)
War on Our Doorstep: The Unknown Campaign on North America's West Coast (Alaska)
Murder At McDonalds (Canada, Nova Scotia)
I Got a Name: The Murder of Krystal Senyk (Canada, Yukon)
Coffin Man (Ute)
Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel (Navaho)
First Degree: From Med School to Murder The Story Behind the Shocking Will Sandeson Trial (Nova Scotia)
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire (Mexico)
The Zimmerman Telegram (Mexico)
Old School Indian (Mohawk)
Mission to the Kurils (Alaska)
Caribbean
The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War (Cuba)
The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies (Barbados)
Central America
Dances with Prostitutes Costa Rica Style Costa Rica
Lay Down Your Guns: One Doctor's Battle for Hope and Healing in Honduras (Honduras)
Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States- And Made Millions in Drugs and Arms (Panama)
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (Guatemala)
South America
Aerial Operations in the Revolutions of 1922 and 1947 in Paraguay: The First Dogfights in South America (Paraguay)
Rubber Soldiers: The Forgotten Army that Saved the Allies in WWII (Brazil)
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People (Ecuador)
"Go Find Him and Bring Me Back His Hat": The Royal Navy's Anti-Submarine Campaign in the Falklands/Malvinas War (Falkland Islands)
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children (Argentina)
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia (Chile)
Asia
War Women (South Korea)
Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War (Philippines)
The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth (India/Sentinelese Islands)
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World (Afghanistan)
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Siberian Russia)
Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream (Philippines)
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide (Turkey)
Street Without Joy (Vietnam)
Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung (North Korea)
Flight 149: A Hostage Crisis, a Secret Special Forces Unit, and the Origins of the Gulf War (Kuwait)
Not Ordinary Men: The Story of the Battle of Kohima (Burma)
The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China (China)
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia)
A Gentleman from Japan: An Epic Sea Voyage, an Intriguing Tale of Espionage and the Forgotten Story of the First Japanese Explorer in Tudor England (Japan)
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World (Indonesia)
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia (Mongolia)
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Syria)
Under the Midnight Sun (Japan)
A Tiger Rules the Mountain: Cambodia’s Pursuit of Democracy (Cambodia)
Oceana
Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II (Guam)
Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy (Wake Island)
The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan (Solomon Islands)
Europe
Locked In (Denmark)
Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia (Russia)
The Preacher (Sweden)
The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit (Switzerland)
The Mist (Iceland)
Midnight and Blue (Scotland)
To Die With Such Men: Frontline Stories from Ukraine's International Legion (Ukraine)
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter (Poland)
Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine (Ireland)
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Albania)
The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe (Austria)
My First Murder (Finland)
Kaput: The End of the German Miracle (Germany)
The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II (Hungary)
Blood Ties (Norway)
Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine (Ukraine)
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (England)
Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff (Poland)
Hotel Ukraine (Ukraine)
On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942–March 1943 (Ukraine)
Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich (France)
The Seven Men of Spandau: The Last of the Hitler Gang (Germany)
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (Ukraine)
Africa
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Congo)
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: [book:Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish FamineThe Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa|10046142] (Congo)
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Sierra Leone)
Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On (Somalia)
War Lord: Khalifa Haftar and the Future of Libya (Libya)
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Kenya)
Antarctica
Arctic
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Arctic State (Greenland)