Sunday, February 24, 2019

WAR BOOK CLUB MINUTES: February 5th, 2019


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!

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