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I'll add this ne to the list. I've read a couple of books on this topic. My best friend in middle/high schools family was rounded up and had to sleep in horse stalls at Santa Anita Racetrack before getting shipped off to Manzanar, a camp on the east side of California. It's a museum now, we visited there and I found their names in the list of internees. US native born and naturalized citizens that had die to prove their allegiance to the USA, a damm sad bit of history.

This one was good, standard a grit waring.

Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd

By: Masayo Umezawa Duus, translated by Peter Duus

A good read that includes the backstory of many of the Japanese American soldiers that fought in Europe. These soldiers had to fight prejudice overcome questions about their loyalty to finally be allowed to fight and die for their country.

Quote:
Unlikely Liberators is the action-filled story of the men of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Not trusted to fight in the Pacific, these sons of Japanese immigrants were sent instead to the European theater. In the eyes of their own government and the Europeans they liberated, they were an unlikely group of fighting men. They nevertheless engaged the enemy with astonishing heroism, winning battle after battle at Anzio, Salerno, Cassino, and in the Vosges Mountains. At the end of the war, the 100th and the 442nd emerged as America’s most decorated units. They provided ample evidence of their patriotism to a country that had questioned their loyalty.

Masayo Duus begins her story with the formation of the Japanese American units, which were an outgrowth of America’s ambivalent attitude toward the entire Japanese American community at the outbreak of the war. She recounts their experiences in training and during the early battles in Italy, including the conflicts between Japanese American and Caucasian troops. The final part of the story focuses on the battle in the Vosges forest, where the 442nd fought fiercely to rescue the “lost battalion” of Texans hopelessly cut off by the enemy.

Based on extensive research in War Department archives and nearly three hundred interviews with veterans of the 100th and 442nd, Unlikely Liberators first appeared in serialized form in Japan, where it won the Bungeishunjusha Reader’s Prize. It is an absorbing and personalized account of young men suddenly separated from their families and friends, often confused and sometimes suspicious about what the army wanted from them. It portrays them as individuals confronting the multiple crises of war and social rejection and it shows that their greatest achievement was not their victory over a foreign enemy, but over prejudice at home. This book is a tribute to those men, who by their heroism reestablished for all Japanese Americans their personal dignity as full citizens in the country of their birth.

Interestingly enough, I've been to the Manzanar camp site twice. Both times in the mid-late '70s while on a college tour.

I forget when but one night I asked my FIL about the war and all he said was, "You see things you never want to see again." I knew by the look on his face as well as the tone of his voice that that would be the one and only time we would speak of it.

I've often wondered what I would have done if I were a young buck in 1943 when the loyalty questionnaire was issued. Would I have been a "Yes-Yes" guy or a "No-No" boy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-No_Boy

I wish I could recall the titles of other books I read about Interment and the war record of soldiers recruited from the camps. If I returned to the Azusa, CA public library, I could point out the shelves of WWII books I read. Now I use an App to track the books I have to read and the ones I have read.

My Father, who had a plant nursery for a while. He spoke of the time when the Japanese were told they had a short time to prepare, selling off property for a loss and taken to away. He thought it was unfair and a terrible thing to happen to good people.

The hard cover book was delivered last night. The audiobook is a good idea, I've been considering them. I used to work with a guy that liked them, first on cassettes then CDROMs. He had a longer commute and finished them long enough before the due date to let me listen to them and mail them back. Not as good as live pronunciation, but when reading books on the Kindle app for my iPhone I can highlight a word and look it up and get a text/computer pronunciation.

As an avid reader of technical books over non-fiction,I tend to assign proxy names to difficult names in books. It started when I was required to read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, characters with not one but several unpronounceable names.

Empire of the Summer Moon.
S.C. Gwynne


The vast, semi-arid grasslands of the southern Great Plains could be dominated by hunters and warriors on horseback. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Comanches, often referred to as “lords of the Plains,” were the single most powerful military force in the region, to the frustration of both the Mexican and U.S. governments. In this engrossing chronicle, award-winning journalist Gwynne traces the rise of the Comanche people from their roots as primitive bands of hunter-gatherers to their mastery of the horse and emergence as the feared power brokers of the area. At the center of the narrative is the charismatic Quanah Parker, who skillfully navigated the gaps between his traditional culture and the emerging, settled culture of the late-nineteenth century. Quanah was the son of a Comanche warrior and a woman named Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped at the age of nine and chose to stay with the Comanches. Quanah was a brilliant, feared war chief who guided his people in adapting to new realities after their final suppression by the U.S. Calvary. An outstanding addition to western-history collections. --Jay Freeman

Drafters people….. bad ass.

What?!

You are friggen Comanche Royalty.

That is a strength of yours. Now I know where you get it.

If you do not want to read the book, this YouTube video covers the entire story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpivTBfX_Y0

Trillions by Robin Wigglesworth

The rise of my investment adviser John Bogle and the index fund industry.

Read that last year...very good read...

followed up with "Killers of the Flower Moon," by David Grann...bitter story about the Osage tribe discovering oil on their seemingly barren and worthless reservation land in Oklahoma...and how they were murdered and exploited by white men...and how the investigations of those murders led to the birth of the FBI

didn't see the movie...if Stewart plays the part of a former Texas Ranger, recruited by Hoover to investigate the murders of Osage Indians...

Where do you guys generally find new titles to read? Not the actual books, but the names of the books to then go find and read?

From the bibliography of books I've read, articles, related books on Amazon and from Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com

From here too.

I the Reading List app to track the books I've read and the books I plan to read.

If not from here then a myriad of sources. Could be friends recommending something, seeing an author’s name and then checking out their writings, the Aaron Rodgers Book Club via the Pat McAfee Show, or flashing on something I read in h.s. or college and wanting to re-read it.

try looking at the New York Times best seller lists on Amazon...have several categories like fiction and non-fiction, combined e-books, hardcover and paperbacks, how-to, personal and misc, childrens...

I tend to review and buy books written by authors I've enjoyed.

I also trade books with a couple of friends who enjoy reading.

I go through whatever crap is free on Kindle unlimited

Might be overselling them a bit. You are correct in that they are jokes, or at least reasonable facsimiles thereof

Here are a couple hundred from my app:
Delimited with a pipe symbol: "|"

Title | Subtitle | Authors
What Every BODY is Saying | An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People | Navarro, Joe; Karlins, Marvin
Mosquito: Menacing the Reich | Combat Action in the Twin-engine Wooden Wonder of World War II | Bowman, Martin W.
The Last Lion | Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 | Manchester, William; Reid, Paul
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill | Alone, 1932-1940 | Manchester, William
Jagdverband 44 | Squadron of Experten | Forsyth, Robert
John Taffin's Book of the . 45 Caliber | | Taffin, John
Japanese Secret Pojects | Experimental Aircraft of the Iija and Ijn, 1939-1945 | Dyer, Edwin M.
Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin | With Emphasis on the Savannah River Site | Marcy, Barton C.
The Short Stories of Larry Potterfield - Volume 2 | | Potterfield, Larry
The Far Shore | | Ellsberg, Edward
D Day Through German Eyes | The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 by Holger Eckhertz | Simon, Benjamin; Summary, Smart Readers'
Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate | | Calvert, James
Ours to Hold it High | The History of the 77th Infantry Division in World War II | 77th, United States. Army. Infantry Division\,
Can Do! The Story of the Seabees | | Huie, William Bradford
The Battle for Leyte Gulf | The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle | Woodward, C. Vann
The Good Shepherd | A Novel | Forester, C. S.
Bataan Uncensored | | Miller, E. B.
Escape from Corregidor | | Whitcomb, Edgar D.
Destroyer Squadron 23 | Combat Exploits of Arleigh Burke's Gallant Force | Jones, Ken
Zoomies, Subs, and Zeros (Annotated) | | Adamson, Hans; Lockwood, Charles A.
Kriegie | Prisoner of War | Simmons, Kenneth
Of Rice and Men: From Bataan to V-J Day, a Survivor’s Story | | Reynolds, Bob
The Diary of a Forty-niner | | Canfield, Chauncey L.
Men Against Fire | The Problem of Battle Command | Marshall, S. L. A.
Dark December (Annotated) | The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge | Merriam, Robert E.
Condition Red | Destroyer Action in the South Pacific | Chadde, Steve W.; Bell, Frederick J.
Patton and His Third Army | | Wallace, Brenton Greene
Road To Huertgen: Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition] | | Boesch, Lt. Paul
At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy | | Bulkley, Robert J.
Sink ’Em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific | | Lockwood, Charles A.
General Leemy's Circus | | Snyder, Earl A.
Army of Shadows | The WWII Collection | Hennessy, Max
Battle for the Solomons | | Wolfert, Ira
Carrier! Life Aboard a World War II Aircraft Carrier | | Miller, Lt. Commander Max
The Navy's Air War | A Mission Completed | Buchanan, Albert Russell
Torpedo 8: The Story of Swede Larsen's Bomber Squadron | | Wolfert, Ira
The U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima | | Lucas, Jim; Dempsey, David; Josephy, Alvin M.; Beech, W.
One-Man Airforce [Illustrated Edition] | | Gentile, Major Don Salvatore
Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid | | Caidin, Martin
The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron | | Mori, Juzo
Four-Four-Two | | Hughes, Dean
"A Few Acres of Snow" | The Saga of the French and Indian Wars | Leckie, Robert
The March to Glory | | Leckie, Robert
The Battle for Iwo Jima | | Leckie, Robert
**** Behind the Lines | The Extraordinary Story of Jock Mclaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese | Gilling, Tom
The Book of Rifle Accuracy | | Boyer, Tony
SOG | The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam | Plaster, John L.
Secret Commandos | Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG | Plaster, John L.
Facing the Mountain | A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II | Brown, Daniel James
Adrift and Alone | True Stories of Survival at Sea | Yomtov, Nelson
U-Boat Killer | Fighting the U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic | Macintyre, Donald
Coral Comes High | | Hunt, George P.
Nancy Wake | | FitzSimons, Peter
Wrath in Burma | The Uncensored Story of General Stilwell and International Maneuvers in the Far East | Eldridge, Fred
Admiral Halsey’s Story | | III, William F. Halsey; Bryan, J.
By Tank into Normandy | | Hills, Stuart
The U. S. Marines on Iwo Jima | | Henri, Raymond; Lucas, Jim Griffing; Beech, W. Keyes; Dempsey, David; Josephy, Alvin M.
Sink ‘Em All | Submarine Warfare in the Pacific | Lockwood, Vice-Adm. Charles A.
Thirty-Five Missions Over Japan | | Webster, 1st Lt. Philip D.; Webster, Charlotte B.
Bringing the Thunder | The Missions of a World War II B-29 Pilot in the Pacific | Robertson, Gordon
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape | | Felton, Mark
We Were Soldiers Once-- and Young | Ia Drang, the Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam | Moore, Harold G.; Galloway, Joseph L.
Hijacked | The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705 | Hirschman, Dave
The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez | | Benavidez, Roy P.; Griffin, Oscar
Gin: How to Drink It | | Broom, Dave
Lightning Down | A World War II Story of Survival | Clavin, Tom
Genever | 500 Years of History in a Bottle | Beittel, Veronique Van Acker -
American Murder Houses | A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide | Lehto, Steve
The Train to Crystal City | FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II | Russell, Jan Jarboe
The Competitive AR15 | Builder's Guide | Zediker, Glen D.
Pistols of the World | | Hogg, Ian
Ken Waters' Notebook | "Best Wishes for Good Shooting" | Waters, Ken
The P08 Luger Pistol | | Vries, Guus De; Martens, Bas J.
Standard Catalog of Military Firearms | The Collector's Price and Reference Guide | Peterson, Philip
Trees of the Southeastern United States | | Duncan, Wilbur H.; Duncan, Marion B.
The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast | | Anderson, David G.; Sassaman, Kenneth E.
Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values | | Flayderman, Norm
The Spyderco Story | The New Shape Of Sharp | Delavigne, Kenneth T.
Team Cul de Sac | Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's | Sparks, Chris
Knives 2010 | The World's Greatest Knife Book | Kertzman, Joe
Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values | | Shackleford, Steve
Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! | | Rickard, Tim
Puns of Steel | An Argyle Sweater Collection | Hilburn, Scott
The Itty-Bitty Knitty Committee | | Hilburn, Scott
A Higher Call | An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-torn Skies of World War II | Makos, Adam; Alexander, Larry
Red Blood, Black Sand | Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima | Tatum, Chuck
Helmet for My Pillow | | Leckie, Robert
You'll Be Sor-Ree! | A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War | Phillips, Sid
Survival Knives | How to Choose and Use the Right Blade | Ayres, James Morgan
For the President's Eyes Only | Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush | Andrew, Christopher
The Crash of Little Eva | | Ralph, Barry
The Castaway's War | One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan | Harding, Stephen
Beyond Valor | World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat | O'Donnell, Patrick K.
Unlikely Liberators | The Men of the 100th And 442nd | Duus, Masayo Umezawa
With the Old Breed | At Peleliu and Okinawa | Sledge, E.B.
The Soldier Who Came Back | | Foster, Steve; Clark, Alan
They Call It Pacific | | Lee, Clark
Islands of the Damned | A Marine at War in the Pacific | Burgin, R.V.; Marvel, Bill
The Prison Called Hohenasperg | An American Boy Betrayed by His Government During World War II | Jacobs, Arthur D.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb | | Rhodes, Richard
Unbroken | A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Hillenbrand, Laura
The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific | | Feldt, Eric A.
Devotion | An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice | Makos, Adam
Spearhead | An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II | Makos, Adam
Harm’s Way | | Bassett, James E
American Murder Houses | A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide | Lehto, Steve
A Hell of a War | | Fairbanks, Douglas
On Valor’s Side | | Gallant, T. Grady
Enigma | The Battle For The Code | Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh
One Damned Island After Another: The Saga of the Seventh | | Howard, Clive; Whitley, Joe
Island Victory: The Battle Of Kwajalein Atoll | | Marshall, Lt.-Col. Samuel L. A.
Requiem for Battleship Yamato | | Yoshida, Mitsuru
The Last Men of the Revolution | Containing a Photograph of Each from Life, Accompanied by Brief Biographical Sketches ... | Hillard, Elias Brewster
The Revolution's Last Men | The Soldiers Behind the Photographs | Hagist, Don N.
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier | Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin | Martin, Joseph Plumb
Steep Trails | California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canon | Muir, John
Floodpath | The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles | Wilkman, Jon
Life on the Mississippi | | Andrist, Ralph K.
Shot Down | The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth | Snyder, Steve
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare | How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops | Lewis, Damien
Rise and Kill First | The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations | Bergman, Ronen
Devil's Guard | | Elford, George R.
Two-Gun Cohen | | Levy, Daniel S.
Attack Transport: The Story of the U.S.S. Doyen | | Marsden, Lawrence A.
The Last Panther | Slaughter of the Reich | Faust, Wolfgang
Saipan | The Beginning of the End | Hoffman, Carl W.; Corps, United States. Marine
Drawn to Injustice | The Wrongful Conviction of Timothy Masters | Masters, Timothy; Lehto, Steve
Fire Lover | A True Story | Wambaugh, Joseph
Echoes in the Darkness | | Wambaugh, Joseph
The Lorraine Campaign | | Cole, Hugh M.
Devotion | An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice | Makos, Adam
Voices of the Pacific | Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II | Makos, Adam; Brotherton, Marcus
Harm's Way | | Bassett, James
My Life in the Red Army | | Virski, Fred
Carolina Crimes | Case Files of a Forensic Photographer | Shuler, Rita Y.
Duel Under the Stars | The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II | Johnen, Wilhelm
Cryptonomicon | | Stephenson, Neal
Structures or Why things don’t fall down | | Gordon, J.
Thunder Below! | The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II | Fluckey, Eugene B.
South Carolina | A History | Edgar, Walter B.
The Official Overstreet Identification and Price Guide to Indian Arrowheads | | Overstreet, Robert M.
Ignition! | An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants | Clark, John Drury
Into the Rising Sun | In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat | O'Donnell, Patrick K.
81 Days Below Zero | The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness | Murphy, Brian
Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea | The Daring Capture of the U-505 | Gallery, Daniel V.
Okinawa | The Last Battle of World War II | Leckie, Robert
Long-Range Precision Rifle, Expanded Edition | The Complete Guide to Hitting Targets at Distance | II, Anthony Cirincione
Honor Before Glory | The Epic World War II Story of the Japanese American GIs Who Rescued the Lost Battalion | McGaugh, Scott
Pacific Alamo | The Battle for Wake Island | Wukovits, John F.
Into the Abyss | An Extraordinary True Story | Shaben, Carol
Murder in the Midlands | Larry Gene Bell and the 28 Days of Terror that Shook South Carolina | Shuler, Rita Y.
Stuka Pilot | | Rudel, Hans Ulrich
Blind Man's Bluff | The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage | Sontag, Sherry; Drew, Christopher; Drew, Annette Lawrence
Conflict | The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953 | Leckie, Robert
Strong Men Armed | | Lecke, Robert
Lost in the Yellowstone | Truman Everts's Thirty-seven Days of Peril | Everts, Truman
Torpedoes Away! | | Hawkins, Maxwell
The Wars of America: Volume 1: Quebec to Appomattox | | Leckie, Robert
The Wars of America: San Juan Hill to Tonkin | | Leckie, Robert
George Washington's War | The Saga of the American Revolution | Leckie, Robert
The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz | The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen | Schilperoord, Paul
Guests of the Emperor | The Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp | Holmes, Linda Goetz
From Sea to Shining Sea | From the War of 1812 to the Mexican War; The Saga of America's Expansion | Leckie, Robert
None Died in Vain | The Saga of the American Civil War | Leckie, Robert
The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II | | Noppen, Ryan K.
The Bravest Man | Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang | Tuohy, William
40 Thieves on Saipan | The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles | Tachovsky, Joseph
Ghost Riders | When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II | Felton, Mark
Delivered from Evil | The Saga of World War II | Leckie, Robert
The Fighting Bunch | The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution | DeRose, Chris
Lucky 666 | The Impossible Mission | Drury, Bob; Clavin, Tom
Warfare | | Leckie, Robert
Guest Of The Emperor | The Personal Story Of Ex-POW Frank O. Pro I it’s, U.S.M.C. | Bergee, Lee
D-Day Girls | The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II | Rose, Sarah
Citizen Soldiers | The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany | Ambrose, Stephen E.
Lab 257 | The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory | Carroll, Michael C.
Samurai! | The Autobiography of Japan's Bravest Fighter Ace | Sakai, Saburo; Caidin, Martin; Saito, Fred
Japan's Secret War | | Wilcox, Robert K.; Wilcox, Robert H.; Price, Derek John de Solla
Mission Beyond Darkness | | III, Lt.-Comdr. J. Bryan
B-29 Superfortress: The Plane that Won the War | | Gurney, Gene
Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace | | Johnson, Robert S.; Caidin, Martin
Widow Maker | A Novel of World II | Johnson, E. R.
JOE FOSS, FLYING MARINE - The Story Of His Flying Circus As Told To Walter Simmons [Illustrated Edition] | | U.S.M.C., Colonel Joseph "Joe" Foss
The Saga of Pappy Gunn | | Kenney, George Churchill
Serenade To The Big Bird | | Stiles, Bert
Japanese Destroyer Captain | Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway -- the Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes | Hara, Tameichi; Saito, Fred; Pineau, Roger
The Real Tenko | Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese | Felton, Mark
Blood on the Rising Sun: The Japanese Invasion of the Philippines | | Marquez, Adalia; Romulo, Carlos P.
U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific | | Frank, Gerold; Horan, James D.; Eckberg, J. M.
Unsinkable | Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett | Sullivan, James
Samurai | | Sakai, Saburō; Caidin, Martin; Saito, Fred
South from Corregidor, by John Morrill | | Morrill, John
China Marine | | Sledge, E. B.
Cover of Darkness: The Memoir of a World War Two Night-Fighter | | Chisholm, Roderick
Where Away | A Modern Odyssey | Perry, George Sessions
Okinawa Victory in the Pacific | | Nichols, C.S.; Shaw, H.I.
The Forgotten 500 | The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II | Freeman, Gregory A.
Air War in the Pacific: The Journal of General George Kenney, Commander of the Fifth U.S. Air Force | | Kenney, George C.
Arctic Rescue: A Memoir of the Tragic Sinking of HMS Glorious | | Healiss, Ronald
Victory in Papua | United States Army in World War II - the War in the Pacific | Milner, Samuel
Tail Gunner | Rivaz, R C

Good idea Palama, thanks.

Gene, I am sensing a trend in genre... Can't quite put my finger on it though. That's a hell of a list!

By Title

Title | Subtitle | Authors
"A Few Acres of Snow" | The Saga of the French and Indian Wars | Leckie, Robert
40 Thieves on Saipan | The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles | Tachovsky, Joseph
81 Days Below Zero | The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness | Murphy, Brian
A Hell of a War | | Fairbanks, Douglas
A Higher Call | An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-torn Skies of World War II | Makos, Adam; Alexander, Larry
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier | Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin | Martin, Joseph Plumb
Admiral Halsey’s Story | | III, William F. Halsey; Bryan, J.
Adrift and Alone | True Stories of Survival at Sea | Yomtov, Nelson
Air War in the Pacific: The Journal of General George Kenney, Commander of the Fifth U.S. Air Force | | Kenney, George C.
American Murder Houses | A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide | Lehto, Steve
American Murder Houses | A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide | Lehto, Steve
Arctic Rescue: A Memoir of the Tragic Sinking of HMS Glorious | | Healiss, Ronald
Army of Shadows | The WWII Collection | Hennessy, Max
At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy | | Bulkley, Robert J.
Attack Transport: The Story of the U.S.S. Doyen | | Marsden, Lawrence A.
B-29 Superfortress: The Plane that Won the War | | Gurney, Gene
**** Behind the Lines | The Extraordinary Story of Jock Mclaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese | Gilling, Tom
Bataan Uncensored | | Miller, E. B.
Battle for the Solomons | | Wolfert, Ira
Beyond Valor | World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat | O'Donnell, Patrick K.
Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid | | Caidin, Martin
Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values | | Shackleford, Steve
Blind Man's Bluff | The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage | Sontag, Sherry; Drew, Christopher; Drew, Annette Lawrence
Blood on the Rising Sun: The Japanese Invasion of the Philippines | | Marquez, Adalia; Romulo, Carlos P.
Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! | | Rickard, Tim
Bringing the Thunder | The Missions of a World War II B-29 Pilot in the Pacific | Robertson, Gordon
By Tank into Normandy | | Hills, Stuart
Can Do! The Story of the Seabees | | Huie, William Bradford
Carolina Crimes | Case Files of a Forensic Photographer | Shuler, Rita Y.
Carrier! Life Aboard a World War II Aircraft Carrier | | Miller, Lt. Commander Max
China Marine | | Sledge, E. B.
Citizen Soldiers | The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany | Ambrose, Stephen E.
Condition Red | Destroyer Action in the South Pacific | Chadde, Steve W.; Bell, Frederick J.
Conflict | The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953 | Leckie, Robert
Coral Comes High | | Hunt, George P.
Cover of Darkness: The Memoir of a World War Two Night-Fighter | | Chisholm, Roderick
Cryptonomicon | | Stephenson, Neal
D Day Through German Eyes | The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 by Holger Eckhertz | Simon, Benjamin; Summary, Smart Readers'
D-Day Girls | The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II | Rose, Sarah
Dark December (Annotated) | The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge | Merriam, Robert E.
Delivered from Evil | The Saga of World War II | Leckie, Robert
Destroyer Squadron 23 | Combat Exploits of Arleigh Burke's Gallant Force | Jones, Ken
Devil's Guard | | Elford, George R.
Devotion | An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice | Makos, Adam
Devotion | An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice | Makos, Adam
Drawn to Injustice | The Wrongful Conviction of Timothy Masters | Masters, Timothy; Lehto, Steve
Duel Under the Stars | The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II | Johnen, Wilhelm
Echoes in the Darkness | | Wambaugh, Joseph
Enigma | The Battle For The Code | Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh
Escape from Corregidor | | Whitcomb, Edgar D.
Facing the Mountain | A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II | Brown, Daniel James
Fire Lover | A True Story | Wambaugh, Joseph
Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin | With Emphasis on the Savannah River Site | Marcy, Barton C.
Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values | | Flayderman, Norm
Floodpath | The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles | Wilkman, Jon
For the President's Eyes Only | Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush | Andrew, Christopher
Four-Four-Two | | Hughes, Dean
From Sea to Shining Sea | From the War of 1812 to the Mexican War; The Saga of America's Expansion | Leckie, Robert
General Leemy's Circus | | Snyder, Earl A.
Genever | 500 Years of History in a Bottle | Beittel, Veronique Van Acker -
George Washington's War | The Saga of the American Revolution | Leckie, Robert
Ghost Riders | When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II | Felton, Mark
Gin: How to Drink It | | Broom, Dave
Guest Of The Emperor | The Personal Story Of Ex-POW Frank O. Pro I it’s, U.S.M.C. | Bergee, Lee
Guests of the Emperor | The Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp | Holmes, Linda Goetz
Harm's Way | | Bassett, James
Harm’s Way | | Bassett, James E
Helmet for My Pillow | | Leckie, Robert
Hijacked | The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705 | Hirschman, Dave
Honor Before Glory | The Epic World War II Story of the Japanese American GIs Who Rescued the Lost Battalion | McGaugh, Scott
Ignition! | An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants | Clark, John Drury
Into the Abyss | An Extraordinary True Story | Shaben, Carol
Into the Rising Sun | In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat | O'Donnell, Patrick K.
Island Victory: The Battle Of Kwajalein Atoll | | Marshall, Lt.-Col. Samuel L. A.
Islands of the Damned | A Marine at War in the Pacific | Burgin, R.V.; Marvel, Bill
Jagdverband 44 | Squadron of Experten | Forsyth, Robert
Japan's Secret War | | Wilcox, Robert K.; Wilcox, Robert H.; Price, Derek John de Solla
Japanese Destroyer Captain | Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway -- the Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes | Hara, Tameichi; Saito, Fred; Pineau, Roger
Japanese Secret Pojects | Experimental Aircraft of the Iija and Ijn, 1939-1945 | Dyer, Edwin M.
JOE FOSS, FLYING MARINE - The Story Of His Flying Circus As Told To Walter Simmons [Illustrated Edition] | | U.S.M.C., Colonel Joseph "Joe" Foss
John Taffin's Book of the . 45 Caliber | | Taffin, John
Ken Waters' Notebook | "Best Wishes for Good Shooting" | Waters, Ken
Knives 2010 | The World's Greatest Knife Book | Kertzman, Joe
Kriegie | Prisoner of War | Simmons, Kenneth
Lab 257 | The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory | Carroll, Michael C.
Life on the Mississippi | | Andrist, Ralph K.
Lightning Down | A World War II Story of Survival | Clavin, Tom
Long-Range Precision Rifle, Expanded Edition | The Complete Guide to Hitting Targets at Distance | II, Anthony Cirincione
Lost in the Yellowstone | Truman Everts's Thirty-seven Days of Peril | Everts, Truman
Lucky 666 | The Impossible Mission | Drury, Bob; Clavin, Tom
Men Against Fire | The Problem of Battle Command | Marshall, S. L. A.
Mission Beyond Darkness | | III, Lt.-Comdr. J. Bryan
Mosquito: Menacing the Reich | Combat Action in the Twin-engine Wooden Wonder of World War II | Bowman, Martin W.
Murder in the Midlands | Larry Gene Bell and the 28 Days of Terror that Shook South Carolina | Shuler, Rita Y.
My Life in the Red Army | | Virski, Fred
Nancy Wake | | FitzSimons, Peter
None Died in Vain | The Saga of the American Civil War | Leckie, Robert
Of Rice and Men: From Bataan to V-J Day, a Survivor’s Story | | Reynolds, Bob
Okinawa | The Last Battle of World War II | Leckie, Robert
Okinawa Victory in the Pacific | | Nichols, C.S.; Shaw, H.I.
On Valor’s Side | | Gallant, T. Grady
One Damned Island After Another: The Saga of the Seventh | | Howard, Clive; Whitley, Joe
One-Man Airforce [Illustrated Edition] | | Gentile, Major Don Salvatore
Ours to Hold it High | The History of the 77th Infantry Division in World War II | 77th, United States. Army. Infantry Division\,
Pacific Alamo | The Battle for Wake Island | Wukovits, John F.
Patton and His Third Army | | Wallace, Brenton Greene
Pistols of the World | | Hogg, Ian
Puns of Steel | An Argyle Sweater Collection | Hilburn, Scott
Red Blood, Black Sand | Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima | Tatum, Chuck
Requiem for Battleship Yamato | | Yoshida, Mitsuru
Rise and Kill First | The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations | Bergman, Ronen
Road To Huertgen: Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition] | | Boesch, Lt. Paul
Saipan | The Beginning of the End | Hoffman, Carl W.; Corps, United States. Marine
Samurai | | Sakai, Saburō; Caidin, Martin; Saito, Fred
Samurai! | The Autobiography of Japan's Bravest Fighter Ace | Sakai, Saburo; Caidin, Martin; Saito, Fred
Secret Commandos | Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG | Plaster, John L.
Serenade To The Big Bird | | Stiles, Bert
Shot Down | The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth | Snyder, Steve
Sink ‘Em All | Submarine Warfare in the Pacific | Lockwood, Vice-Adm. Charles A.
Sink ’Em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific | | Lockwood, Charles A.
SOG | The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam | Plaster, John L.
South Carolina | A History | Edgar, Walter B.
South from Corregidor, by John Morrill | | Morrill, John
Spearhead | An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II | Makos, Adam
Standard Catalog of Military Firearms | The Collector's Price and Reference Guide | Peterson, Philip
Steep Trails | California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canon | Muir, John
Strong Men Armed | | Lecke, Robert
Structures or Why things don’t fall down | | Gordon, J.
Stuka Pilot | | Rudel, Hans Ulrich
Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate | | Calvert, James
Survival Knives | How to Choose and Use the Right Blade | Ayres, James Morgan
Tail Gunner | | Rivaz, R C
Team Cul de Sac | Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's | Sparks, Chris
The Battle for Iwo Jima | | Leckie, Robert
The Battle for Leyte Gulf | The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle | Woodward, C. Vann
The Book of Rifle Accuracy | | Boyer, Tony
The Bravest Man | Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang | Tuohy, William
The Castaway's War | One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan | Harding, Stephen
The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific | | Feldt, Eric A.
The Competitive AR15 | Builder's Guide | Zediker, Glen D.
The Crash of Little Eva | | Ralph, Barry
The Diary of a Forty-niner | | Canfield, Chauncey L.
The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz | The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen | Schilperoord, Paul
The Far Shore | | Ellsberg, Edward
The Fighting Bunch | The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution | DeRose, Chris
The Forgotten 500 | The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II | Freeman, Gregory A.
The Good Shepherd | A Novel | Forester, C. S.
The Itty-Bitty Knitty Committee | | Hilburn, Scott
The Last Lion | Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 | Manchester, William; Reid, Paul
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill | Alone, 1932-1940 | Manchester, William
The Last Men of the Revolution | Containing a Photograph of Each from Life, Accompanied by Brief Biographical Sketches ... | Hillard, Elias Brewster
The Last Panther | Slaughter of the Reich | Faust, Wolfgang
The Lorraine Campaign | | Cole, Hugh M.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb | | Rhodes, Richard
The March to Glory | | Leckie, Robert
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare | How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops | Lewis, Damien
The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron | | Mori, Juzo
The Navy's Air War | A Mission Completed | Buchanan, Albert Russell
The Official Overstreet Identification and Price Guide to Indian Arrowheads | | Overstreet, Robert M.
The P08 Luger Pistol | | Vries, Guus De; Martens, Bas J.
The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast | | Anderson, David G.; Sassaman, Kenneth E.
The Prison Called Hohenasperg | An American Boy Betrayed by His Government During World War II | Jacobs, Arthur D.
The Real Tenko | Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese | Felton, Mark
The Revolution's Last Men | The Soldiers Behind the Photographs | Hagist, Don N.
The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II | | Noppen, Ryan K.
The Saga of Pappy Gunn | | Kenney, George Churchill
The Short Stories of Larry Potterfield - Volume 2 | | Potterfield, Larry
The Soldier Who Came Back | | Foster, Steve; Clark, Alan
The Spyderco Story | The New Shape Of Sharp | Delavigne, Kenneth T.
The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez | | Benavidez, Roy P.; Griffin, Oscar
The Train to Crystal City | FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II | Russell, Jan Jarboe
The U. S. Marines on Iwo Jima | | Henri, Raymond; Lucas, Jim Griffing; Beech, W. Keyes; Dempsey, David; Josephy, Alvin M.
The U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima | | Lucas, Jim; Dempsey, David; Josephy, Alvin M.; Beech, W.
The Wars of America: San Juan Hill to Tonkin | | Leckie, Robert
The Wars of America: Volume 1: Quebec to Appomattox | | Leckie, Robert
They Call It Pacific | | Lee, Clark
Thirty-Five Missions Over Japan | | Webster, 1st Lt. Philip D.; Webster, Charlotte B.
Thunder Below! | The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II | Fluckey, Eugene B.
Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace | | Johnson, Robert S.; Caidin, Martin
Torpedo 8: The Story of Swede Larsen's Bomber Squadron | | Wolfert, Ira
Torpedoes Away! | | Hawkins, Maxwell
Trees of the Southeastern United States | | Duncan, Wilbur H.; Duncan, Marion B.
Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea | The Daring Capture of the U-505 | Gallery, Daniel V.
Two-Gun Cohen | | Levy, Daniel S.
U-Boat Killer | Fighting the U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic | Macintyre, Donald
U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific | | Frank, Gerold; Horan, James D.; Eckberg, J. M.
Unbroken | A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Hillenbrand, Laura
Unlikely Liberators | The Men of the 100th And 442nd | Duus, Masayo Umezawa
Unsinkable | Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett | Sullivan, James
Victory in Papua | United States Army in World War II - the War in the Pacific | Milner, Samuel
Voices of the Pacific | Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II | Makos, Adam; Brotherton, Marcus
Warfare | | Leckie, Robert
We Were Soldiers Once-- and Young | Ia Drang, the Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam | Moore, Harold G.; Galloway, Joseph L.
What Every BODY is Saying | An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People | Navarro, Joe; Karlins, Marvin
Where Away | A Modern Odyssey | Perry, George Sessions
Widow Maker | A Novel of World II | Johnson, E. R.
With the Old Breed | At Peleliu and Okinawa | Sledge, E.B.
Wrath in Burma | The Uncensored Story of General Stilwell and International Maneuvers in the Far East | Eldridge, Fred
You'll Be Sor-Ree! | A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War | Phillips, Sid
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape | | Felton, Mark
Zoomies, Subs, and Zeros (Annotated) | | Adamson, Hans; Lockwood, Charles A.

I am in awe of you, sir!

In addition to "Empire of the Summer Moon", am concurrently listening to "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi as well as thumbing through "The Illustrated Book of Five Rings". Cool to see woodblock prints and pictures of armor and swords to envision both the time period and technology of the times.

Once I get past those two, next up will be: "The Answer Is..." by Alex Trebek.

The JBL Story - 60 Years of Audio Innovation by John M. Eargle

My speaker guy lent this to me today, due back in a couple of months so putting a stop of other books and other distractions (…sorry Dan…). More pictures and diagrams than text so I should be able to go through this rather quickly. I’ll be more interested in the Consumer Products chapter but the broad array of product lines should still be entertaining.

Rogue Lawyer- John Grisham.

Hate Inc
Matt Taibbi

In this characteristically turbocharged new book, now in a new post-election edition, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider’s guide to the variety of ways today’s mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as “the news” is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.

In the Internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism’s dirty tricks.

After a 2020 election season that proved to be a Great Giza Pyramid Complex of invective and digital ugliness, Hate Inc. is an invaluable antidote to the hidden poisons dished up by those we rely on to tell us what is happening in the world.
320 pages • Paperback ISBN 978-1-68219-260-3 • E-book 978-1-68219-259-7.

(End of professional write up).

My Thoughts…
Halfway through. How a book can be so unexpectedly refreshing (a mid lefty reporter) strips it all down for a warts and all look at the media. The chit storms, half truths and The Sides not being dishonest as much as committing sins of knowing omission.

Refreshing and also infuriating. At least a few times a night, I read passages from the book emphasizing the bs Taibbi has written. Conspiracy Theories give away to Conspiracy Fact.

Vindicated are the people who “knew” CNN, FOX News, and MBCSN are universally untrustworthy. Lost are still those looking for Cronkite style news of the 70s. Little spin and closing with And that’s the way it is….

Just about nobody tells us the way it is any longer. Taibbi is a flicker of light.

finished "King Rat" by James Clavell...life among Western POWs ( Aussies, Brits and Americans) during WWII on an island in the Pacific, guarded by Japanese and Korean soldiers...

halfway through "The Mark of the Assassin" by Daniel Silva