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[workinwifdakids]

According to Dick Marcinko, founder of Seal Team 6, he named the team "Six" on purpose to confuse the Soviets.

EDIT: And while Marcinko has an inflated sense of his place in his universe, it's a rather innocuous detail to make up out of whole cloth.

So, I just got done reading Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon, about a war between Russia and China over gold and oil in Siberia.

[Greg]

This past week I finished Overthrowing Heaven, Contact with Chaos and The German Wars. That last is a serious and worthwhile read- goes contrary to much conventional wisdom, but fits the facts infinitely better.

Today I started rereading A Fire Upon the Deep and borrowed Anathem from the library.

[Greg]

I finished Eye of the Storm yesterday. Oh, boy. Now I'm already hurting for my next fix. Can't wait 'til October (Tuloriad).

[SeekHer]

I just finished Harry Turtledoves Risng Atlantis and just started his After the Downfall

Was just given a book, that I've been reading in spurts called The History of Islam by Robert Payne...Qquite well done but frustrating in that he doesn't give more then sufficient information on some of the more interesting persons (inventors, scientists)...Good overview of the history of and a basis for further study, like finding a biography on some of the people or better military accounts of some of the battles...written by an Anglo who is certainly enamoured by everything Arab...

I just ordered these books through Amazon:
SNIPING IN THE GREAT WAR by Martin Pegler
Jack Hinson's One-Man War, A Civil War Sniper by Tom McKenney
Kill Zone: A Sniper Novel and
Dead Shot A Sniper Novel by Sgt. Jack Coughlin
The Sniper by James Riordan (“Teen” reading, I find out afterwards)
Sniping: An Illustrated History by Pat Farey
Notes of a Sniper: Vassili Zaitsev's Account of the Battle of Stalingrad
Ronin: A Marine Scout / Sniper Platoon in Iraq by Mike Tucker
Long Rifle: A Sniper's Story in Iraq and Afghan... by Joe LeBleu
Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq by Dan Mills
To Be a Military Sniper by Gregory Mast
Illustrated Manual of Sniper Skills by Mark Spicer
Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counter terrorism Units by Aaron Cohen
A Sniper On The Eastern Front Editor: Geoffry Brookes by Sepp Allerberger

And these books direct from the author, Rod "Breaker" McCoy:
Combat Snipers: How To Become Better Through Superior Sniper Tactics
Deadly Snipers: Sniper Lethality And Protection
Death By Precision Fire: The World War ll German Sniper
Dominant Snipers: Snipers in Urban Combat
Japanese Army Snipers: Imperial Japanese Army Snipers, World War II
Muslim Snipers, Iraq: Islamic Sniper Propaganda
Precision Fire Sniper Kill: German vs. British Snipers, World War II
Red Army Sniper Tactics: Red Army Precision Fire Manual
Soviet Sniperism: Red Army Snipers On East Front

I had ordered these before and finished them:
Trigger Men by Hans Halbertstadt
Hogs In The Shadows by Milo S. Afong
These are the typical, after action reports, of sniper teams in the big sandbox...I found Trigger Men to be better written but Hogs more interesting...

Stalkers and Shooters by Kevin Dockery
Gives a good overview to the history of sniping but really needed a better proofreader because he made a few very minor errors and could have done a little better research on the earlier history or that his editor chopped up unknowingly...

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden -- Fictional WW1 story based on the life of Canadian Ojibway Sniper Francis "Peggy" Pegahmagabow who had the most confirmed kills in the Commonwealth Armies...A wonderful read and the way he developed his characters was excellent but he really needed some more action scenes showing the ingenuity of the snipers and the cultural differences were downplayed quite a bit...Indians hold the place of blacks in Canada and were (are) considered lower on the cultural ladder...

[FelixEstrella]

Just finished Neal Stephenson's latest, "Anathem". Am now rereading "Snow Crash".

[scipioafricanus]

Just finished Unintended Consequences, and I loved it. I picked up the copy after seeing John Ross on "Shooting Gallery" two years ago, but it has been in the book backlog since.

SA

[Baja boy]

I have started reading again --
Read Asher's Khartoum, Churchill's Folly , A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity (O'Reilly) and jusdt finished Crash Proof by Peter Schiff---

Simon, of the "sniper books " , which do you recommend ?

[dfwmtx]

Picked up Clive Cussler's "Spartan Gold" in the airport this weekend. His stuff is a guilty pleasure.

Since I finished Robert Conroy's "1945" this weekend. I recomend it if you're an alt-history buff like I am. Since I finished that I started reading "Rising Sun Victorious: An Alternate History of the Pacific War" by Peter Tsouras. It's fiction, but dry enough to be non-fiction if it was actual history.

[Dub_James]

Just finished Neal Stephenson's latest, "Anathem". Am now rereading "Snow Crash".

One of these days I'll get to read The Diamond Age.

Snow Crash is wonderfully written. I love the flow in his work.

[George guy]

Well, after buying and reading The Last Patriot shortly after its release (following the media hype by the blogosphere and Glenn Beck) and then The Apostle this year, I finally ordered the rest of the Scot Harvath series by Brad Thor, and started from the beginning. Altogether quite good.

Since I was ordering books I went ahead and also got Hostile Intent by Michael Walsh. It's a good deal more far-fetched, partly because the villain is basically a drop-in for George Soros.