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HISTORY AND WAR
This is a list of books I've rented from Books on Tape®, Inc. I keep it on my web site so I can recommend a book as enjoyable, well-crafted, or important for learning the history behind current issues.
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01 Aug 1999 - book no. 4823-AB
* * * * - Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barrett Travis
by Davis, William C. (read by Estell, Dick)
Crockett, Bowie, and Travis - each for their own reasons - came to Texas, to start life anew and leave behind rejections, mistakes, or failures. In Texas, their leadership qualities and their courage came to fore. Excellent historical detail.

10 Jan 1999 - book no. 4757
* - The Living and The Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
by Hendrickson, Paul (read by Halberstam, David)
McNamara, true 'company man' behind Vietnam war, publicly issued false encouragement for a futile military engagement the administration was sure was right. Privately, he saw the numbers proving it wrong. Too much psycho-journalism here.

20 Oct 1998 - book no. 4127-A/B
* * * - - Undaunted Courage
by Ambrose, Stephen (read by Whitener, Barrett)
In 1803, the trip to Seattle made by Lewis & Clark was comparable to today's trip to Mars. It took several years and encountered a vast amount of unknown. Lewis proved to be an excellent record-keeper, but early fame got the best of him.

01 Oct 1998 - book no. 4596
* * * - Citizen Soldiers
by Ambrose, Stephen (read by Whitener, Barrett)
Both sides lost heavily in WWII after the Allies landed on Normandy, during the extended Battle of the Bulge. Conditions of cold and setback were similar to those experienced in Korea: the Untold Story (Goulden, Joseph C.).

01 Jun 1998 - book no. 3777
* * * * - - Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War
by Kelly, Michael (read by Reese, Jonathan)
An eye-opener into conditions & corruption that existed throughout Iraq & Kuwait - before, during, & after Gulf War. Contrast this foot-reporter's, in-depth 'tourist' account with "Into the Storm", a strictly military general's account.

02 Jan 1998 - book no. 4409-AB
* * - Into the Storm: A Study in Command
by Clancy, Tom and General Fred Franks (read by Prichard, Michael)
Important insight into the history and development of the highly trained, strategy-oriented, mobile, and technical military forces of the '90s. The book is very repetitive and excessively detailed. Glad to finally finish it.

25 Nov 1997 - book no. 4475
* * * * - Lords of the Rim
by Seagrave, Sterling (read by Howard, Geoffrey)
An important book that provides a history of their hidden side of Asian countries, their power seats, development, and influence on the rest of the world. Great stuff for conspiracy theorists.

17 Nov 1997 - book no. 4374
* * - - For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought the Civil War
by McPherson, James (read by Estell, Dick)
Interesting perspective on a war fought harder and with more emotional investment than possibly any other in US history - the Civil War.

10 Mar 1997 - book no. 2748-AB
* * * - - Korea: The Untold Story of the War
by Goulden, Joseph C. (read by Kandinsky, Wolfram)
Parallels between this war and the Vietnam war are scary. Note-to-country: any conflict to which we commit that could involve China is destined to be lose-lose. Those who fought in Korea endured terrible conditions. Why didn't we learn?

25 Sep 1996 - book no. 4066
* * * * - - Longitude
by Sobel, Dava (read by Reading, Kate)
Huge prizes were offered in the 18th century for ways to measure longitude. Big money was on astronomical observations. So the solution, a precise clock (chronometer) was disbelieved & ignored almost the entire lifetime of its inventor.

31 Oct 1995 - book no. 3691
* * * * - - Voices of 1776: The story of the American Revolution in the Words of Those Who Were There
by Wheeler, Richard (read by Estell, Dick)
After reading, I realize how lucky we were to win our independence as a nation. The war, for us, was largely a series of strategic retreats, fought under great hardship with almost no resources & frequently with little zeal from the troops.

13 Apr 1993 - book no. 3151-AB
(not rated) - Creators, The: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
by Boorstin, Daniel J. (read by Prichard, Michael)
"Boorstin puts flesh on the great figures and gives dimension to the great events in our cultural heritage. He celebrates Confucious and Picasso, Mozart and James Joyce, Isadora Duncan and Virginia Woolf, Chinese art and..."

08 Mar 1993 - book no. 2986
(not rated) - On Fields of Fury
by Wheeler, Richard (read by Kandinsky, Wolfram)
"A dramatic recreation of Genarl Grant's ambitious attempt to end the Civil War in 1864 - before Lincoln's reelection."

19 Nov 1992 - book no. 1068
(not rated) - Armada, The
by Mattingly, Garret (read by Cunningham, James)
"...Received the National Book Award for non-fiction and a Pulitzer special citation."

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