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Just finished this. Great autobiography of a Rolls Royce armored car driver in WWI. Amazing how rugged the RR armored cars were. In the second half of the book, he hooks up with Lawrence of Arabia. His admiration for Lawerence is worshipful. The book makes me want to break out the Meng kit and the Copper state Ford tender. Highly recomended.

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Just finished this. Outstanding account of the war against communists in Malaya in the 50’s. Well written with a colorful cast of characters. This was a period of time I had little knowledge of, so I found it fresh and fascinating. Highly recommended.

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Finally getting around to reading this one. Being a late arrival to the war, it was easy to forget that the engineers and contractors pretty much built most of the roads and infrastructure that exists in Vietnam today. Makes sure to include the Marine engineers and Navy Seabees too. Well written and easy to read. Wayne

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The postman was kind, showing up with some new books

Rabbits

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Just started reading this, incredible. Thought I knew all about the conflict from the US Army perspective.

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About a 150 pages into this:

Parshall takes a month-by-month look at the year 1942 and covers every theater of the war in that same chronology. It’s a remarkable effort, and in doing so, he makes connections between and ties together global events in a way that makes it clear that almost nothing that was happening during the war happened in isolation.

He also makes some very compelling arguments and explanations about strategic and operational decisions by all of the Allied and Axis powers (including China as one of the major powers).

Not an “easy” or fast read (1200+ pages), but if you’ve always wondered about the thinking behind some of the decisions made by the various world political and military leaders, Parshall offers some insights that make sense from a lot decisions that might seem irrational or wrong-headed when viewed in the context of single theaters or nationalities.

Global war viewed from a global perspective…

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Finished this. History of Romero and modern zombie films. Quick read but aside from a few anecdotes nothing new. A quarter of the book is the original Night screenplay. It has a lot of differences from the final film (Ben, the hero was originally going to be a redneck hillbilly). Recommended for casual fans.

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