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walk with me: A Vietnam Experience

by Gerald F. Kurth

bookshelves: currently-reading, american-history, asia, history, memoir-autobiography, military-history, vietnam

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Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

by John Ferling

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Salammbo

by Gustave Flaubert

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“Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labor when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.”
― Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace

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“If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.”
― Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

tags: leadership

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“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, liberty, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism, utilitarianism

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“The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: great-books

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“Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.”
― Victor Hugo

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Robert’s Groups

STA Readers' Forum — 14 members — last activity Aug 20, 2012 02:04PM
St. Albans faculty, student, and alumni reading seminar.

STA Summer Book Club — 16 members — last activity Jun 07, 2010 10:29AM
Get off your butt and read.

St. Albans Military History Reading Group — 8 members — last activity Apr 13, 2020 09:29AM
With all of us quarantined at home, we figured we'd start a St. Albans military history reading group. Check the "general" discussion tab below for re ...more

Great War (1914-1918): The Society and Culture of the First World War — 479 members — last activity Dec 06, 2021 05:06AM
A place to discuss the cultural milieu of the Great War (also referred to as the First World War, World War I, WWI, World War One). The intent of this ...more

The History Book Club — 26257 members — last activity 12 hours, 33 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

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