While doing research for a school project on black slavery, four white high school students make a shocking discovery about the forgotten history of white servitude in Colonial America. They learn it was just as cruel and widespread as black slavery, and are now forced to make a choice: Turn in a politically correct project…
Category: Book Suggestions
Know Your Confederate History: Confederate Sniper Jack Hinson and his Rifle
The Story of Civil War Sniper Jack Hinson and His Rifle I can also recommend the book Jack Hinson’s One Man War, A Civil War Sniper by Lt. Col. Tom McKenney, USMC (Ret.)
Know Your WW2 History: The Invasion of Poland
The History and War Blog did an Outstanding Four Part Series on the Invasion of Poland beginning in 1939. Part 1: The Attack on Poland 1-17 September Part 2: Soviet Invasion and the Fall of Poland Part 3: The Exodus Part 4: The Aftermath Also as a cool supplement, Jeff over at The Inch…
WW2 Books Worth a Damn: Das Boot (The Boat)
“The thrilling wartime novel that inspired Wolfgang Petersen’s Academy Award-nominated, blockbuster film! Written by an actual survivor of Germany’s U-boat fleet, Das Boot is one of the most exciting stories of naval warfare ever published, a tale filled with almost unbearable tension and suspense. In autumn 1941, a German U-boat commander and his crew set…
Top 5 Biographies of Robert E. Lee
1. R.E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman Published in 1934, this four-volume book by Douglas Southall Freeman chronicles all of the major events and highlights of Robert E. Lee’s military career. The book discusses everything from Lee’s experiences in the Mexican-War to his surrender at Appomattox. Freeman depicts Lee as an honest, straightforward man who is…
Audible Books for Free: One Second After & One Year After
When the Post-Apocalyptic genre really took off, One Second After was one of the first books that I read that had a profound impact on me as both a writer and prepper. I went on to read the other two books in the series: One Year After and The Final Day. The final installment of…
Literary Corner: Remembering J.R.R Tolkien
Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien: January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973 “I am in fact a Hobbit.” — J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity…
Orwell’s Bugman in 1984
H/T Calculus of Decay
The Children of Men in Real Time?
Study finds ‘alarming’ decline in sperm count across world So it appears another classic dystopian novel is proving to be eerily prophetic. First it was 1984, then Soylent Green, then Camp of the Saint’s now it is The Children of Men. For those who have not read the novel I will spare you any…
Know Your WW1 History: American Pravda, Lost Histories of the Great War
American Pravda: Lost Histories of the Great War “On reading this, I did a double-take and almost questioned my sanity. Surely, Hochschild must be aware that exactly at that point in time, the government of Germany had publicly proposed international peace talks without preconditions aimed at ending the war, suggesting that the massive, pointless…