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Old 05-20-2009, 10:22 AM   #16
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GJN: Haven't tried Hastings yet....LOVE Halberstam. His Korea book was phenominal, and Best and Brightest is one of the finest books I have ever read on any topic. Atkinson is a new one to me. I will have to check it out. thx!

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And you may find it worthwhile to spend $9.99 at Amazon for some more recent military historians like Hastings (WWII: Armageddon, Retribution, and Overlord), Halberstam (Korea: Coldest Winter; Vietnam: Best and Brightest) and Atkinson (WWII).
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Ah... "Gallic Wars" - good thought. I will look for it. Don't know Suetonius. What area is he in?


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Blegh, I hated Thucydides. Try Caesar's "The Gallic Wars" (he was a military genius) or you could try Suetonius (for more general history).
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Ah... "Gallic Wars" - good thought. I will look for it. Don't know Suetonius. What area is he in?
Suetonius wrote "The Twelve Caesars" (as in the Roman ones). It reads like a gossip magazine. It's fantastic.
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Old 05-20-2009, 10:43 AM   #19
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MJ! What a trip of a site! I could get lost there for quite some time!

A wonderful gem and treat, thank you!

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I posted this website not long ago, perhaps you could use it to make yourself a few ebooks for your Kindle.

An online compendium detailing all of Britain's battles from the 18th Century to the end of the 19th Century.

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Old 05-20-2009, 10:47 AM   #20
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I have hit the Baen site ... nice... got Pournelle's ??? "West of Honor" which I had not read in a while.

If Baen would publish "Starship Troopers" - still, IMHO, the finest analysis of the role of the military and citizenship to be written, and should be discussed in ALL civics classes... I would be very happy.

Shucks.. Id even _pay_ for it....

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Baen acquired rights to some of Heinlein's works. As they reprint, those books become available in bit at Baen's usual low price with no DRM. Go check it out at www.baen.com and www.webscription.net

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Old 05-20-2009, 02:04 PM   #21
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Ebooks are wonderful for history. Virtually everything pre-1920s is available. T he trouble is, most of the time you have no way of knowing what translation the history is, the formatting is screwed up, etc.

I'm not sure about current military histor. I'm a history buff, too, and have been looking. It looks to me that we'll just have to pay the full 20 bucks for the newer releases.

Gutenberg has been mentioned, that's a good one, as is Google Books. The rest I just sort of scour the web for, using google searches.
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Ah... "Gallic Wars" - good thought. I will look for it. Don't know Suetonius. What area is he in?
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Suetonius wrote "The Twelve Caesars" (as in the Roman ones). It reads like a gossip magazine. It's fantastic.
This is right here at MR beautifully formatted by MR member Patricia. (lrf)
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...sars+Suetonius

and added ( mobi / prc ) link

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...Twelve+Caesars
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MJ! What a trip of a site! I could get lost there for quite some time!

A wonderful gem and treat, thank you!

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You are most welcome... A friend of mine suggested that site to me when I got bored monitoring a chat room one week... There is definitely a lot of information there to peruse...

-MJ
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