false 1056087 male New York, NY 04/2008 11/2009 41 86 78 true 5623546 read 2 true 2178757 currently-reading 6 true 2178756 to-read Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Paperback) by Richard B. Frank]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75897846 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517301s/4998.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:22:37 -0700
Revolving around the entire book are the worries US officials had about...more...]]> Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe (Paperback) by Leo Bretholz]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29220227 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177186992s/685967.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:55:49 -0700
A qu...more...]]> With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Mass Market Paperback) by E.B. Sledge]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71472024 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256050820s/1989154.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:41:34 -0700 As stated on the cover, this book was referenced in Ken Burn's latest effort, "The War."
Highly recommended.
]]> The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Hardcover) by John Kelly]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19462275 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182544008s/1292213.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:48 -0700 John Kelly give us insight on how most likely the flea made its way down from the Russian steppe to advance into Europe via ...more...]]> Gulag: A History (Paperback) by Anne Applebaum]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28864870 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174487532s/406148.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:19:02 -0700
Anne Applebaum has written an unbelievable tome on what is now known as the former Soviet Union's gulag archipelago. Years spent reading and researching Russian archives, lett...more...]]> The Things They Carried (Paperback) by Tim O'Brien]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19464013 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172022055s/133518.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:50:21 -0700 more...]]> Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal (Vintage) by Matthew Parker]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59499148 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UFv3LQXoL._SL75_.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:29:35 -0700 more...]]> In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) by Bruce Chatwin]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56723380 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170974536s/79909.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Wed, 20 May 2009 06:02:55 -0700
Having just visited Patagonia this year, I can vividly see much of the terrain Chatwin describes. When the book was first published, many de...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53243352 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255666050s/5350543.jpg 1056087 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207365714p2/1056087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1056087-mike Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:14:23 -0700