Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos that Chicago Boyz readers viewed and/or ordered in November 2015 via Amazon links on this blog. (A cumulative list of Chicago Boyz readers’ Amazon purchases is here.)
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Items with orders
Books
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 – Voyaging
Eggs are Expensive, Sperm is Cheap: 50 Politically Incorrect Thoughts for Men
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government
On the Rails: A Woman’s Memoir
Seven Reasons Why You Can Trust the Bible
Steel Rails to Victory: A Photographic History of Railway Operations During World War II
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Logitech Unifying receiver for mouse and keyboard
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns [Online Game Code]
Kindle eBooks
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great
Agents of the Apocalypse: A Riveting Look at the Key Players of the End Times
Best Easy Day Hikes Washington, D.C. (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (Columbia/Hurst)
Items with no orders
A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
Alone: Book 1: Facing Armageddon
An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Churchill: A Study in Failure 1900-1939
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Death Is Lighter than a Feather
East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (Contemporary Asia in the World)
Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Gryphon Precinct (Dragon Precinct)
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories By Richard Matheson
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
Patton’s Air Force: Forging a Legendary Air-Ground Team
People, Places & History (The Best of Sgt. Mom)
Rachel Ashwell’s Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting & Decorating Guide
Rachel Ashwell’s Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting and Decorating Guide
Radical Son: A Journey Through Our Times from Left to Right
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)
Seize the Fire : Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Ship Killer: A History of the American Torpedo
That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) (The Space Trilogy 3)
The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society
The Almanac of American Politics 2014
The Closing of the American Mind
The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War
The Origins of English Individualism: The Family Property and Social Transition
The Pattern of the Chinese Past
The Plain Style: Protestant Theology in the History of Design
The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope
The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen & Unconditional Surrender
The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion
The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889
Theirs Was the Kingdom (Swann Family Saga)
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
They Who Knock at Our Gates A Complete Gospel of Immigration
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, Book 11)
War Stories: 50 Years in Medicine
War: Ends and Means, Second Edition
What’s the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Women beyond the wire: A story of prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-1945
The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos…
Such a great book. I still refer to it often. It’s where I first read about Boyd.
I also read ‘Patton’s Airforce’. It’s a detailed operational history of the XIX TAC, but it reads more like a journal piece with heavy emphasis on statistical records A little on the dry side, I would have preferred more analysis on tactics, but I suppose much of that information may be lost or forgotten. Maybe deliberately.
It’s got some great maps, though.
I’m reading “Deep in the Heart” by our very own Sgt Mom, after just finishing her book “Daughter of Texas”, both of which are very good! If you enjoy historical fiction these are the books for you.
Sgt Mom’s books would also make great Christmas gifts!
Thanks, Jeff – and I have two more out this year as well! Sunset and Steel Rails is historical fiction, whereas Chronicles of Luna City is more of a contemporary comic diversion.
This year and the coming one look to be so very, very bleak that I believe we need all the comic diversion we can muster.
I will likely receive both the Chronicles of Luna City and Sunset and Steel Rails for Christmas, since I suggested the idea to my wife. Lone Star Sons will probably be a birthday present.
Enjoy, Jeff … and I am working this very minute on another Lone Star Sons story… for next year, of course.
Currently reading The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge by Hillsdale College professor Paul A. Rahe. Before that I read A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels. This book was of particular interest to me as one of my best friends, an American, was a Captain in the Rhodesian SAS and is mentioned in several place in the book.