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    Posted: 13-Mar-2006 at 20:59

 

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Is "Prince Henry, the Navigator -- A Life" any good? I have thought of purchasing a copy many times, but have never done so. Do you recommend it?

I am reading an old biography of "Sir Charles Dilke", written by Roy Jenkins. The author is one of my favourite biographers.

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The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat
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Flyboys by James Bradley.

On the surface it's about the air war in the Pacific WW II, but it covers much of the history that led to the war and doesn't pull any punches. Good Book.
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Hi,
I'm reading El Corazon a contra luz
A novel by Patricio Mann about the slaw death of Selk'man native in the
God Hope strait. A book with balls... and hairs upon it! It's excellent.
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This is a wonderful resource list for classic literature and it is completely free for those interested...

Free Classic Literature

I have no affiliation with this website I only found it very useful and wanted to share the resource...

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The Greek Philosophers, A Compilation

Meno, The Republic, Gorgias: Plato
Principal Doctrines: Epicurus
Meditations: Marcus Aurelius
Discourses: Epictetus
De Rerum Natura: Lucretius
Enneads: Plotinus
Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics Book I, Physics Book II: Aristotle

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Lately:

"Sagas about the Kings of the North" - Snurri Sturulson

"A Mirror of the World" - Mehmed Neshri

" The Crusades through Arab Eyes" - Amin Maaluf

" The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America`s Response" - Peter Balakian
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I am reading a biogrpahy on Mohammed. It is a picture book!
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I'm reading "Strategery" by Bill Sammon, and the Alexiad of Anna Comnena. Not at the same time, of course.
Is someone going to tell Triple H that someone beat him to the title "King of Kings"?
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Currently:

Ataturk and his age. The war of independece and the government of Mustapha Kemal Atatuk by Istvn Flesch
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Do you have some maps of the Greco-Turkish war in 1919-1922?
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Just finished a small novel by James Patterson entitled - Letters from Sam to Jennifer. A bit of a tear-jerker! I cried throughout the entire last chapter!

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Anabasis of Xenophon: Completed

it sounds as dream, Unbelievable as to be History book

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Hi,
Reading "the Manuscript found in Saragossa" by Potocki and loving loving
loving it. Ghosts, talmud fighters and witches moriscas, gitanos and
duels...
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A Study of History -Arnold J. Toynbee. The full, multi-volume, unabridged final edition.

I'm on the Disintergrations of Civilizations section right now.
"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."

-Arnold J. Toynbee
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Excerpt from an Amazon book review - Justin Marozzi traveled in the footsteps of this fearsome emperor of Samarkand (modern-day Uzbekistan) to write this book, which is part history, part travelogue. He carefully follows the path of this infamous and enigmatic conqueror, recounting the history and the story of this cruel, cultivated, and indomitable warrior.

I started reading it yesterday. One of the footnotes talks about some superstitious beliefs about disturbing his tomb. There was a myth about leaving him in peace otherwise the sh__ will hit the fan.

Wiki explains:

On an interesting note, Timur's body was exhumed from his tomb in 1941 by the renowned Russian anthropologist Mikhail M. Gerasimov. The scientist found that Timur's facial characteristics conformed to that of Mongoloid features, supporting Timur's notion, in some part, that he was descended from Genghis Khan. He also confirmed Timur's lameness. Gerasimov was able to reconstruct the likeness of Timur from his skull.

Famously, a curse has been attached to opening Timur's tomb. In the year of Timur's death, a sign was carved in Timur's tomb warning that whoever would dare disturb the tomb would bring demons of war onto his land. Gerasimov's expedition opened the tomb on June 19, 1941. Operation Barbarossa, which claimed more lives than any other war in history, began three days later on June 22, 1941. The legend of Tamerlane's curse features prominently in the 2006 Russian blockbuster Day Watch.

Coincidentally, once the skeletal remains were properly put back, in 1943 the Germans were repulsed at the battle of Stalingrad.

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American history for me.

I finally got around to reading David McCullough's 1776. It is actually a pretty interesting account of the Revolutionary War; it's written in a style that's intriguing, in any case.

In the past few months I've also read The Barbary Coast about Jefferson's sending of Marines to Tripoli and I also read The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, an account of TR's amazon journey in S. America where he almost died, between the time he left the Presidency and his run for a second term with the Progressives.
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I am reading the Da Vinci code for the first time before it comes out in theaters!!!!

----So far it has already been fast paced from the beginning and i cannot put it down!!! its that crazy and good!!!
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I'm currently reading "Man in the Shadows". It's interesting to say the least
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Currently reading:

"History of the Byzantine State" by George Ostrogorsky

"Londinium-London in the Roman Empire" by John Morris

"Preparatory and College Latin Courses in English" by William C. Wilkinson

"The 100-a ranking of the most influential persons in history" by Michael Hart

Plato's "Republic"

"Cassells World History of Warfare" by Holger Herwig, Christon Archer, Timothy Travers, and John Ferris

Just Finished:

"The Extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek" by Barry Cunliffe

Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations"

"First Armies" by Doyne Dawson

"The Renaissance at War" by Thomas Arnold

"Warfare in the Eighteenth Century" by Jeremy Black

"Royalty's Strangest Characters" by Geoff Tibballs

"Hannibal" by Ernle Bradford

"Genghis Khan Conqueror of the World" by Leo De Hartog

All of them are quite good.
"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."--Thomas Mann

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