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I heartily recommend "Clouds of Glory: The Life and Times of Robert E. Lee" (2014) by Michael Korda. Vivid and fascinating look at who Lee was and what he did before, during, and after the Civil War. Vivid and fascinating study of Lee's extended family going all the way back to Revolutionary...

Selflessness and personal courage personified. My hat is off to this young man. Courage. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/world/asia/pakistan-boy-stops-suicide-bomber/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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Finished the greatest memoir of WW1 or maybe any combat ever published. "Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger who as a young German soldier survived 3 1/2 years of the horrific trench warfare on the Western Front. First published in 1920 it is the most visual and savage epic of the Hell of War I...

Just finished the fascinating and riveting history book "A Higher Call: An incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War Torn skies of World War ll" by Adam Makos. A must read and untold history lesson from a different and utterly personal human point of view. Extreme sadness and yet...

Just finished "Deeply Odd" by Dean Koontz which is the 7th and latest in the wonderful Odd Thomas series. If you haven't read any of the Odd Thomas novels of the supernatural then start with the first which is simply "Odd Thomas" and move up thru all seven. You won't be disappointed if you...

Recently finished two very important and extremely poignant modern European histories by renowned British author and historian Keith Lowe. For anyone wanting to gain some understanding of today's Europe both politically and tribally these two sad/brutal histories have a tale to tell...

Rewatched Breaker Morant a short while ago. One of the finest and most moving movies I have ever seen. Set in South Africa during the second Boer War at the turn of the century. The movie follows 3 Australian cavalrymen who are fighting the Boers in a vicious guerrilla war waged by both...

"A Short History of England: The glorious story of a rowdy Nation" by Simon Jenkins is an absolutely mesmerizing history of part of ancient Briton transfiguring into England from the Roman occupation to the present time. This is not a history of Great Britain/UK but only of the rather tiny...

Anyone else on here been watching the two seasons of Downton Abbey on PBS's Masterpiece Theater. I have thoroughly enjoyed the series about British life before, during, and after WW1 in a massive aristocratic house and grounds named Downton Abbey. The lives of the servants, posh aristocrats...

Just finished the latest CIA assassin/operative Mitch Rapp novel by author Vince Flynn called "Kill Shot". It had some very good moments but overall I thought it was the worst Mitch Rapp novel I have read and I have read all of them. Not a bad novel by any means however. I will take a Jack...

Been spending lots of beautiful days in the exquisite high San Juan Mountains near Ouray and Silverton this summer. The wildflowers and views are gorgeous in July. There are hundreds of miles of old 4x4 mining trails in the area from days long gone. Most are quite easy wheeling but all are...

Two Jeepers and one Rover guy explored in the Moab area from Sunday March 13 thru Thursday March 17. Two of us were from Montrose and one all the way from Iowa. The weather was great. We did Tower Arch and the sandy trail south to Eye of the Whale, Fins and Things, Elephant Hill, Potash Road...

Four trucks from Montrose,CO headed out into Utah's Delores Triangle on 1-15-11. We went west of Grand Junction via Glade Park and the DS Road in to Utah. We wheeled out to the high beautiful overlook above the confluence of the Delores and Colorado Rivers several miles east of the Dewey Bridge...

Just finished "Dead Zero". This is the latest Bob Lee Swagger sniper novel after "I,Sniper". Very good book though not as good as "I, Sniper" at least in my opinion. Well worth reading however. If you have never read any of the Swagger novels then you are missing out on many great reads...

I loved the new True Grit. Have seen it twice. The original was good but the new version is better at least in my eyes. "Mattie" should be up for best actress! She is terrific. I love good westerns. Few made anymore. They are the most American of movies if made with vision and...

Just finished The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth. New novel from a great longtime writer. Excellent fiction of cocaine wars intrigue that keeps you mesmerized especially the last 40 pages as the crescendo builds towards the violent ending. Great read that was hard to put down as most of Forsyth's...

Just read on CNN that GM's deal to sell Hummer to a Chinese automaker fell through today. No reason given in the article. GM now plans to completely close down Hummer production. GM sold 9,046 Hummers in 2009.

Just finished "I,Sniper". One terrific novel by Stephen Hunter that was riveting. I could not put it down. This is the 6th book in the ongoing series about Bob Lee Swagger former Vietnam era sniper. Swagger and the other extreme characters in these books make James Bond and his adventures...