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Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:37 pm
by vagabond
Spartan Actual wrote:We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn't Always Come Out When the UN Goes in (Linda Polman)
A book for tea baggers? Who cares. More seriously recommended for those who understand the UN, realize the crucial distinction between the organization and its members, and are concerned about it for all the correct reasons, such as wanting to see it stronger and more effective.


Most, if not all, of the readers and posters on BFC have some travel experience in conflict areas and counties where
the UN is "working".

Can you point me to the place where, on measure, the UN has made anything better for
the indig population?

Even UNICEF is a discunctional program that serves merely as a dating service for th male UN "workers"


You might also want to check out "Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures" - the female writer's part isn't much of anything but the lawyer and doctor's parts are pretty interesting

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:16 pm
by St John Smythe
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Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 1:33 pm
by AztecDave
just picked up "The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today" by Thomas E. Ricks. Have just got into it. Looks like a promising read. especially the part that rapes Tommy Franks. Franks should have gotten the hook right away. Anywho, looking forward to the rest of it.

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:25 am
by tlcfj40
I just finished reading "GB 84", a fictional work on the miner's strike in England. Good read, as were his Red Riding series. Would anyone have suggestions on other books that are about the 1984 Miner's Strike? In particular, I'd like read something from both sides of that, if possible.

Also, does anyone know of any mystery books with the Troubles set as a backdrop? I finished reading three of Stuart Nevilles' books, his newest Ratlines is on order.

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:46 am
by nowonmai
tlcfj40 wrote:I just finished reading "GB 84", a fictional work on the miner's strike in England. Good read, as were his Red Riding series. Would anyone have suggestions on other books that are about the 1984 Miner's Strike? In particular, I'd like read something from both sides of that, if possible.

Also, does anyone know of any mystery books with the Troubles set as a backdrop? I finished reading three of Stuart Nevilles' books, his newest Ratlines is on order.


Are you stuck in a 1980s British time warp? Nightmare.

Not sure what a mystery book is but this was popular at the time. Got made into a TV film as well.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Harrys-Game-Gerald-Seymour/dp/0552147222

As for the miners strike I'm just glad that it is no longer on the news every night ad nauseam. I cant imagine anything more dull than reading about it.

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:42 am
by Yeahsure
"The Lords Of Finance" Liaquat Ahmed

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:13 pm
by Rhah
In the Shadows of Empires by Sir Jens. Great little book about Vlad III of Wallachia

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:15 am
by Devlin
I just completed several books on Charles Becker. He was a the first Police Officer put to death for a crime he did under the color of authority. Good stuff and at this point it looks as if he was railroaded.

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:49 am
by Kurt
Devlin wrote:I just completed several books on Charles Becker. He was a the first Police Officer put to death for a crime he did under the color of authority. Good stuff and at this point it looks as if he was railroaded.


Rosenthal.

Was that person related to the Rosenthal of Black Sox fame? If so, then I could see him being set up.

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:13 am
by AztecDave
"Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall. An excellent book with condensed info on geopolitics.

https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Geogra ... 538&sr=8-1

PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:55 pm
by el3so
Settling in for the long haul...

Complete tales of HP Lovecraft. Kinda bought it for the cover. Nothing new, nothing special, love the theme.
Corona means I have no more excuses not to finish Friedländer's Nazi Germany and the Jews.
There's some Wodehouses sitting on a shelf which I haven't started on since 2002, back when Amazon just sold books. AskJeeves indeed.
And Kriegstagebüch des OKW, picked 'em up back in my driver days, not much of a real read but nice to have to reference/crosscheck other WW2 non-fiction.

Comics mostly Franco-Belgian stuff, literally hundreds of classics.

Digitally Witcher 3 and Divinity 2 will tide me over till September. Heck, given time, I might even revisit online FPS.

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:19 pm
by Kurt
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Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:36 pm
by Lost Boy
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.

Re: Book recommendations and reviews

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:55 pm
by Kurt
Lost Boy wrote:Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.


That is one thing I realize I know nothing about other than it happened.

Unlike others in Quarantine I have found reading books to be just as easy or easier than before.

Right now I am reading The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew. It's big and since it references other points in history without going into great detail about them (like The Frond before the reign of Louis XIV ) It takes a while.

What I thought was the most interesting part of it (so far) was that in the mid 1600's the Mughals, Chinese, Ottomans, and Persians were all much more powerful than any country in Europe. They had more intelligence on us than we had on them, in fact some of "us" where still thinking that we could find a shortcut to "them". When the superpowers of that time discovered that the west was settling a "New Land" they thought we were idiots. They could take land that was ancient, cultivated and had a history of producing wealth and being able to muster armies. They let "us" have a few trading outposts here and there like the Mughals allowed the Portuguese to use Goa, but really there attitude was "they are stupid, smelly and the more they focus on the New World and fighting one another for it and their weird sectarian wars then they will eventually need the Ottoman's to restore peace"

The Mughals never would have guessed that within 100 years the Brits, who they had hardly been aware of, would be in control of their old puppets, or that the Qing Dynasty would be carved apart in 200 years, partially by the New Land that they mocked, and eventually the political system that lasted started in 200 BCE would be destroyed.

That also made me realize I have not read any History or literature from Persia, especially ancient Persia. Just what the Greeks wrote about. If anyone has any advice where I should start on this I would appreciate it.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:21 am
by el3so
Kurt wrote: weird sectarian wars
Jesus vs impersonal God vs whatever the others believed. Rise of the royal empires. Jews were always an easy victim. Those were a couple of centuries of internecine sh!t. Dunno if they still teach kids about that stuff in school.

Re-reading a lot, mostly fiction. Guess amazon still does books.