What are you reading right now (II)?

[Bodhisattva]

Vulture Peak by John Burdett

Book 5 of The Sonchai Jitpleecheep Series

 

[Bodhisattva]

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

https://www.amazon.com/Persians-Gre...=books&sprefix=persians,stripbooks,206&sr=1-2

 

[Bodhisattva]

The Bangkok Asset by John Burdett

6th and final book of The Sonchai Jitpleecheep Series

 

[Bodhisattva]

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

 

[Bodhisattva]

The First Punic War by J.F. Lazenby

 

[Padreruf]

Hamlet...been a long time.

 

[Bodhisattva]

The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun by Philip Matyszak

 

[Bodhisattva]

Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry by Adrian Goldsworthy

 

[Bodhisattva]

Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World by Duane W. Roller

 

[Bodhisattva]

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor

 

[dayhiker]

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

 

[Padreruf]

Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. The basis for the show "Irrational" on NBC, with similarities to Dan Ariely's life ( burn victim) and his work in Behavioral Psychology (he's a.professor @ Duke in the business school.

We think we humans are rational and logical -- he proves we are far from that most of the time.

 

[Bodhisattva]

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

 

[dayhiker]

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

Brushing up on what's to come? Sorta blue font.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

 

[dayhiker]

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides

It's about the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. I'm enjoying it so far. He makes you want to throat punch MacArthur and Almond.

 

[UAH]

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides

It's about the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. I'm enjoying it so far. He makes you want to throat punch MacArthur and Almond.

The same people who did the Great War on Youtube and World War ll are now doing a weekly on the Korean War. MacArthur should have never been placed in command or certainly should have been relieved when he continued to clamor for bombing inside China. Ridgeway was able to stabalize the rout after the Chinese entered and avoid UN troops being pushed off the Peninsula which had become a practical certainty under MacArthur.

 

[Bodhisattva]

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss

 

[Bodhisattva]

Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty by Anthony A. Barrett

 

[Bodhisattva]

Pox Romana: The Plague that Shook the Roman World by Colin Elliott