{"id":10239,"date":"2016-01-01T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=10239"},"modified":"2016-01-01T09:13:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T15:13:41","slug":"my-proposed-reading-list-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/01\/my-proposed-reading-list-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"My &#8220;Proposed&#8221; Reading List for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10241\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/cat.jpg\" alt=\"Cat\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;professional reading&#8221; tends to have a \u00a0very 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Revenant (Punke)<\/li>\n<li>The Martian (Weir)<\/li>\n<li>Ghost Fleet (Singer)<\/li>\n<li>All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr)<\/li>\n<li>The Orphan Master&#8217;s Son (Johnson)<\/li>\n<li>The Lions Gate (Pressfield)<\/li>\n<li>Red Storm Rising (Clancy)<\/li>\n<li>Red Sparrow (Matthews)<\/li>\n<li>Assassins Gallery (Robbins)<\/li>\n<li>Command Authority (Clancy)<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Shaara World War Two Quadrilogy (4 books)<\/li>\n<li>Bernard Cornwell Saxon Tales (On Book 4, Sword Song)<\/li>\n<li>Agincourt (Cornwell)<\/li>\n<li>1356 (Cornwell)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gulag (Applebaum)<\/li>\n<li>Iron Curtain (Applebaum)<\/li>\n<li>A People&#8217;s Tragedy (Figes)<\/li>\n<li>Days of Rage (Burrough)<\/li>\n<li>Future Crimes (Goodman)<\/li>\n<li>The Blue Tent Sky (Aiken)<\/li>\n<li>Dead Wake (Larson)<\/li>\n<li>The Billion Dollar Spy (Hoffman)<\/li>\n<li>Disciples: WW2 Missions of the CIA Directors (Waller)<\/li>\n<li>The New Spymasters (Grey)<\/li>\n<li>Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century (Horne)<\/li>\n<li>The Fall of the Ottomans (Rogan)<\/li>\n<li>The Republic of Pirates (Woodard)<\/li>\n<li>The Unknown Story: Mao (Chang)<\/li>\n<li>Revolution in Texas (Johnson)<\/li>\n<li>Lone Star Nation (Brand)<\/li>\n<li>The Ghost of Cannae (O&#8217;Connell)<\/li>\n<li>Moscow 1812 (Zamoyski)<\/li>\n<li>Napoleons War (Esdaile)<\/li>\n<li>The Greatest Knight (Asbridge)<\/li>\n<li>Jerusalem (Montefiore)<\/li>\n<li>If By Sea (Daughan)<\/li>\n<li>Small Wars, Faraway Places (Burleigh)<\/li>\n<li>All the Shah&#8217;s Men (Kinzer)<\/li>\n<li>War Made New (Boot)<\/li>\n<li>Crusade (Atkinson)<\/li>\n<li>The Great War of our Time ( Morell)<\/li>\n<li>Fiasco (Ricks)<\/li>\n<li>Cobra II (Gordon)<\/li>\n<li>American Spartan (Tyson)<\/li>\n<li>Agent Storm (Storm)<\/li>\n<li>Soul of Battle (Hanson)<\/li>\n<li>The Savior Generals (Hanson)<\/li>\n<li>The Very Best Men (Thomas)<\/li>\n<li>Legacy of Ashes (Weiner)<\/li>\n<li>The Good Spy (Ames)<\/li>\n<li>The Zhivago Affair (Finn)<\/li>\n<li>A Spy Among Friends (Macintyre)<\/li>\n<li>Company Man (Rizzo)<\/li>\n<li>The Manchurian President (Klein)<\/li>\n<li>Body of Secrets (Bamford)<\/li>\n<li>Shadow Warrior (Woods)<\/li>\n<li>Safe for Democracy (Prados)<\/li>\n<li>Ike&#8217;s Spies (Ambrose)<\/li>\n<li>Blacklisted by History (Evans)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>World War Two<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Richard J. Evans Trilogy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>The Coming of the Third Reich,<\/li>\n<li>The Third Reich in Power<\/li>\n<li>The Third Reich at War<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Carlo D&#8217;Este World War Two Leaders Biography Trilogy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Eisenhower: A Soldiers Life<\/li>\n<li>Warlord: The Life of Winston Churchill at War<\/li>\n<li>Patton: A Genius for War<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Stay Sharp, Stay Alert and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;professional reading&#8221; tends to have a \u00a0very heavy emphasis on military history, in particular WW2 and the Cold War. 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