Books read since 2005

These are the books I have read in the last few years. 
With rare exception, (Ref)erence books, I pass on the books so they may again be passed on.  I encourage you to do the same.  Read to learn or recreate; pass on and teach or let others enjoy.

 

33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask

Thomas E. Woods Jr

9 Lives: An Oral History

Aaron Elson

90 Minutes In Heaven: A True Story of Death And Life

Don Piper and Cecil Murphey

A Collector’s Guide to The M1 Garand and the M1 Carbine (Ref)

Bruce N. Canfield

A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Values

Robert H. Bork

A Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos

Alan Lipton & Kfir Alfia

A Mile in Their Shoes: Conversations with Veterans of World War II

Aaron Elson

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection

James B. Stockdale

Ac6V’s DX101x HF + Six Meters DXing Reference Guide, A Comprehensive Guide to the World of HF DXing - Now with Six Meters (Ref)

Rodney R. Dinkins

AC6V’s FM 101x: Using Repeaters, A Comprehensive Guide to Your First VHF/UHF Radio and Using Repeaters (Ref)

Rodney R. Dinkins

All American: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq

Robert McGovern

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream

Tanya Lee Stone

America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

Mark Steyn

American Courage: Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery That Has Made Our Country Great

Herbert W. Warden III

American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day

Robert Coram

American Security: Back to Basics

Angelo Codevilla

An Inconvenient Book

Glenn Beck

Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World’s Most Deadly Fighting Machne

Ed Macy

Arguing With Idiots

Glenn Beck

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagles Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

Beer-Can Chicken: And 74 Other Offbeat Recipes for the Grill  (Ref)

Steven Raichlen

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

Major Dick Winters

Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II

Len Deighton

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art of War

Robert Coram

Cal. .30 Carbines M1, M1A1, M2, and M3, TM9-1276 — 1953 (Ref)

Department of The Army

Co-ed Combat: The New Evidence That Women Shouldn’t Fight The Nation’s Wars

Kingsley Browne

Come On People: On The Path from Victims to Victors

Bill Cosby & Alvin F. Poussaint

Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws

Andrew P. Napolitano

Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’ Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior

James B. Stockdale

Death’s Acre: Inside The Legendary Forensic Lab ‘The Body Farm’ Where The Dead Tell Tales

Dr. Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson

Decision Points

George W. Bush

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why

Laurence Gonzales

Defining Moments: WQorld War II

Alex Hook

Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror

Richard Miniter

Disney: The Mouse Betrayed: Greed, Corruption, and Children at Risk

Peter & Rochelle Schweizer

Enroute: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between

Steven “Kelly” Grayson

Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches

David Nichols (Ed.)

Ever Wonder Why: And Other Conservative Essays

Thomas Sowell

Flags of Our Fathers

James Bradley

Fleeced: How Washington Insiders, Foreign Lobbyists, Subprime Lenders, Credit Card Companies…

Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Florida Firearms – Law, Use, & Ownership — Sixth Edition  (Ref)

Jon H. Gutmacher

Foibles of Father Joe

Connell J. MaGuire

Follies of a Navy Chaplain

Connell J. Maguire

Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission

Hampton Sides

Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington

Jack Broughton

Going Rogue

Sarah Palin

Harry Potter Books 1-7

J.K.Rowling

Hatcher’s Bok of the Garand: Development of Semiautomatic Rifles

Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher

Hating America: The New World Sport

John Gibson

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Robert Leckie

High Humor of the Hills

James & Joseph Turner

How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques  (Ref)

Steven Raichlen

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)

Ann Coulter

In Love and War: The Story of a Family’s Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years

Jim & Sybil Stockdale

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

Dick Cheney, with Liz Cheney

In the Gravest Extreme: Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection  (Ref)

Massad F. Ayoob

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington

Paul Sperry

Intelligence Failure: The Clinton’s National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11

David N. Bossie

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War over Liberalism

Sean Hannity

Letters Home from World War II: from Foxholes and Flight Decks

Rod Cragg

Life, Death and Everything in Between: A Paramedic’s Memoirs

Steven “Kelly” Grayson

Me, Mom, and World War II

Albert F. Pishioneri

Meditations on Violence (Ref)

Sgt. Rory Miller

Moment of Truth in Iraq

Michael Yon

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

Justin Kaplan

My Grandfather’ Son: A Memoir

Clarence Thomas

My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know Is Wrong

John Stossel

Multiple Myeloma: The Plain English Handbook

Robert J. Heller

Neither Predator Nor Prey

Mark Spungin

Nomad: From Islam to America, A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Of Thee I Zing

Laura Ingram

Oh, Johnny

Jim Lehrer

On Call In Hell:  A Doctor’s Iraq War Story

Richard Jadick & Thomas Hayden

Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of The North Platte Canteen

Bob Greene

One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam

Timothy N. Castle

Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany’s First U-Boat Attacks Along The American Coast in World War II

Michael Gannon

Orbit

John J. Nance

Physics for Future Presidents

Richard A. Muller

Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home

Douglas Bauer

Reckless Disregard

Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson

Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

Mike Mullane

Rifle, Caliber .30 M1 Garand, TM 9-1005-222-12, 1969 (Ref)

Department of The Army

Rosie The Riveter: Women Working on The Home Front in World War II

Penny Colman

Satisfaction : How Every Great Company Listens to the Voice of the Customer

Chris Denove & James Power

Saving Cascadia

John J. Nance

Semi-Automatic Pistol in Police Service and Self Defense  (Ref)

Massad F. Ayoob

Shots Fired in Anger: A Rifleman’s View of The War in The Pacific, 1942-1945 (Ref)

John B. George

Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America

Laura Ingraham

Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Robert D. Kaplan

Stressfire, Vol. 1 (Gunfighting for Police: Advanced Tactics and Techniques)  (Ref)

Massad F. Ayoob

Tanks for The Memories: The 712th Tank Battalion during World War II

Aaron Elson

Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases

Peter Berkowitz

The AR-15/M16: A Practical Guide  (Ref)

Duncan Long

The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications - 2011 (Ref)

ARRL

The ARRL Operating Manual for Radio Amateurs - 9th Edition (Ref)

Mark J. Wilson (Editor)

The Art of War  (Ref)

Sun Tzu

The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama’s War on American Values

Brad O’Leary

The Barbecue! Bible  (Ref)

Steven Raichlen

The Blind Side

Michael Lewis

The Bridge at Dong Ha

John Grider Miller

The Coldest Winter: America and The Korean War

David Halberstam

The Complete M1 Garand Assembly Guide (Ref)

Walt Kuleck and Clint McKee

The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus

Joel Chandler Harris

The Constant Gardener

John le Carré

The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land

Andrew P. Napolitano

The First Casualty: From The Crimea to Vietnam, The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker

Phillip Knightley

The Good the Spam and the Ugly

Steve H. Graham

The Great New Orleans Gun Grab: Descent Into Anarchy

Gordon Hutchinson & Todd Masson

* The Key West Reader: The Best of the Key West Writers 1830-1990

George Murphy (Ed.)

The Jolly Rogers

Tom Blackburn; James Stockdale; Paul McCarthy

The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada

Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D.

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

Bill Bryson

The Long Arm of America: The story of the amazing Hercules air assault transport…

Martin Caidin

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Bill Bryson

The M1 Garand, 1936 to 1957 (Ref))

Joe Poyer and Craig Riesch

The M1 Garand Complete Assembly Guide (Ref))

Walt Kulek and Clint McKee

The M1 Garand: Post World War II  (Ref)

Scott A. Duff

The M1 Garand: Serial Numbers & Data Sheets  (Ref)

Scott A. Duff

The M1 Garand: World War II (Ref)

Scott A. Duff

The Navajo Code Talkers

Doris A. Paul

The Operator’s Manual for Rifle 5.56-MM, M16  (Ref)
     TM 9-1005-249-10   February 1985

Department of The Army

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

Robert Spencer

The Post-American Presidency

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer

The Prince of Darkness

Robert Novak

The Race Card

Peter Collier & David Horowitz

The Secret Wireless War: The Story of MI6 Communications 1939-1945

Geoffrey Pidgeon

The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World  (Ref)

Serge Trifkovic

The Time of My Life

Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi

The True Adventures of the World’s Greatest Stunt Man

Vic Armstrong

The Truth About Self Protection  (Ref)

Massad F. Ayoob

They Were All Young Kids

Aaron C. Elson

Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot

James B. Stockdale

Trace

Patricia Cornwell

U-505 (Twenty Million Tons Under The Sea)

Daniel V. Gallery, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)

U.S. M1 Carbines, Wartime Production, 6th Edition (Ref)

Craig Riesch

U.S. Rifle Caliber .30, M1, Field Manual FM 23-5 (1943, 1951, 1965 editions) (Ref)

Department of The Army

U.S. Rifles, Cal. .30 M1, M1C, and M1D, TM9-1275, 1947 (Ref)

War Department

Visions From A Foxhole: A Rifleman in Patton’s Ghost Corps

William A.Foley Jr.

War Crimes

Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson

Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers

Kenji Kawano

War, Politics, and Power  (Ref)

Karl von Clausewitz

What Makes You Think We Read the Bills

H. L. Richardson

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris

Windtalkers: The Making of The Film About The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II

Antonia Felix, (Ed.)

With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

E. B. Sledge

Who Cares About Apathy?

Ludlow Porch

WordPress for Dummies  (Ref)

Lisa Sabin-Wilson

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