Items discussed: * indicates the book is available at RPL
*12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos/Jordan B. Peterson:
*A Township at War/Jonathan F. Vance:
*The Edge/Dick Francis:
Far East Air Operations 1942-1945 (Despatches from the
Front)/John Grehan & Martin Mace:
*Inside the Nazi War Machine: how three generals unleashed
Hitler’s Blitzkrieg upon the world/Bevin Alexander:
*Killing the Rising Sun: How American vanquished World War II
Japan/Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard:
*The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St.
James, 1932-1943/I.M. Maiskii:
*The Murder of King Tut: The plot to kill the child king – a
nonfiction thriller/James Patterson & Martin Dugard:
*Never Split the Difference/Christopher Voss:
The Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the
Ypres Campaigns 1914 – 1918/Christine E. Hallett:
*Sam Steele: a biography/R.C. Macleod:
*Twists of Fate/Paco Roca:
Bonus Feature:
During the discussion, a point was made that doctors from
U.S. medical schools volunteered to be battlefield surgeons in order to…er,
practice; trust the inimitable H.P. Lovecraft to write a horror story on this
theme.
Herbert West-Reanimator:
It formed the basis for the famous horror movie, Re-Animator
(1985):
Enjoy, if you dare.
Next meeting, Tuesday March 5th at 7 pm in Public
Meeting Rm. #1 – subject, Amphibious Warfare – or anything involving water (or
anything you’d care to bring).
Hope to see you then!
