Hazardous Duty by David H. Hackworth My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an excellent book written by a military hero who sees a lot wrong with the military industrial complex, politics, and the military itself, calls it like he sees it, and offers solutions to the problems he points out. It should be …
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Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap by Cecil B. Currey My rating: 5 of 5 stars Cecil B. Currey's book on Vo Nguyen Giap is an utterly excellent book! It's gripping, engaging, provides historical context, contains essential quotes, and shows Giap to be the logistical, tactical, and strategic …
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Brennan's War: Vietnam 1965-1969: Brennan's War: Vietnam 1965-1969 by Matthew Brennan My rating: 4 of 5 stars This wasn't a bad book. In fact, it was fairly engrossing. It was fast paced and I read it in a day. The narrative is written so that it's like a series of very short stories, mostly about …
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gosh, there's so much to say about this book, I hardly know where to begin! I turned over so many pages to go back and see citations or quotes that I can't possibly list a fourth of them …
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Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich My rating: 2 of 5 stars I give up! I surrender! I got to page 602 of this 1,050 paqe book and I simply could not proceed onward. It's flat out BORING!!! I expected to learn gripping, intimate details on Himmler, the SS, Himmler and Hitler, and more. Instead, I …
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