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My “Proposed” Reading List for 2016

Posted on 1 January 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

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With the New Year upon us, I thought I might share what books I have on deck for 2016. Keep in mind I am a writer and amateur historian, so my “professional reading” tends to have a  very heavy emphasis on military history, in particular WW2 and the Cold War. My leisure and fiction reading tends to gravitate that way also, but I also like a good spy novel as well. I also try to squeeze one or two Pulitzer Prize winning novels in there too.

I have an entirely separate section for World War Two Books, and these books change frequently depending on what I am studying or what catches my attention. For now, this is what I have on deck.

Fiction

  • The Revenant (Punke)
  • The Martian (Weir)
  • Ghost Fleet (Singer)
  • All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr)
  • The Orphan Master’s Son (Johnson)
  • The Lions Gate (Pressfield)
  • Red Storm Rising (Clancy)
  • Red Sparrow (Matthews)
  • Assassins Gallery (Robbins)
  • Command Authority (Clancy)
  • Jeff Shaara World War Two Quadrilogy (4 books)
  • Bernard Cornwell Saxon Tales (On Book 4, Sword Song)
  • Agincourt (Cornwell)
  • 1356 (Cornwell)

Non-Fiction

  • Gulag (Applebaum)
  • Iron Curtain (Applebaum)
  • A People’s Tragedy (Figes)
  • Days of Rage (Burrough)
  • Future Crimes (Goodman)
  • The Blue Tent Sky (Aiken)
  • Dead Wake (Larson)
  • The Billion Dollar Spy (Hoffman)
  • Disciples: WW2 Missions of the CIA Directors (Waller)
  • The New Spymasters (Grey)
  • Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century (Horne)
  • The Fall of the Ottomans (Rogan)
  • The Republic of Pirates (Woodard)
  • The Unknown Story: Mao (Chang)
  • Revolution in Texas (Johnson)
  • Lone Star Nation (Brand)
  • The Ghost of Cannae (O’Connell)
  • Moscow 1812 (Zamoyski)
  • Napoleons War (Esdaile)
  • The Greatest Knight (Asbridge)
  • Jerusalem (Montefiore)
  • If By Sea (Daughan)
  • Small Wars, Faraway Places (Burleigh)
  • All the Shah’s Men (Kinzer)
  • War Made New (Boot)
  • Crusade (Atkinson)
  • The Great War of our Time ( Morell)
  • Fiasco (Ricks)
  • Cobra II (Gordon)
  • American Spartan (Tyson)
  • Agent Storm (Storm)
  • Soul of Battle (Hanson)
  • The Savior Generals (Hanson)
  • The Very Best Men (Thomas)
  • Legacy of Ashes (Weiner)
  • The Good Spy (Ames)
  • The Zhivago Affair (Finn)
  • A Spy Among Friends (Macintyre)
  • Company Man (Rizzo)
  • The Manchurian President (Klein)
  • Body of Secrets (Bamford)
  • Shadow Warrior (Woods)
  • Safe for Democracy (Prados)
  • Ike’s Spies (Ambrose)
  • Blacklisted by History (Evans)

World War Two

  • Richard J. Evans Trilogy
  1. The Coming of the Third Reich,
  2. The Third Reich in Power
  3. The Third Reich at War
  • Carlo D’Este World War Two Leaders Biography Trilogy
  1. Eisenhower: A Soldiers Life
  2. Warlord: The Life of Winston Churchill at War
  3. Patton: A Genius for War

Stay Sharp, Stay Alert and Stay Dangerous!

 

 

 

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