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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Best of 08

Here are the best of the 251 books I read in 08.
  • Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
  • Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  • Decent Interval: An Insider's Account Of Saigon's Indecent End by Frank Snepp
  • Cindy in Iraq: A Civilian's Year in the War Zone by Cynthia I. Morgan
  • Winston Churchill- Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War by Douglas Russell
  • All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 by William C. Fuller JrWith
  • Every Mistake by Gwynne Dyer
  • The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
  • On Secret Service East of Constantinople by Peter Hopkirk
Posted by jmnlman at 2:22:00 PM
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