Monday, October 26, 2009

Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt

NYTimes.com
"No one can ever take away the shocking victory by Henry and his 'band of brothers,' as Shakespeare would famously call them, on St. Crispin’s Day, Oct. 25, 1415. They devastated a force of heavily armored French nobles who had gotten bogged down in the region’s sucking mud, riddled by thousands of arrows from English longbowmen and outmaneuvered by common soldiers with much lighter gear. It would become known as the Battle of Agincourt...."

Saturday, January 3, 2009

2008 reading list

Most for the first time, some not:

Alexander, Caroline. The Bounty
Bach, Steven. Leni
Baer, Robert. See No Evil
Baldacci, David. The Whole Truth
Barr, Nevada. Winter Study
Berendt, John. The City of Falling Angels
Bernstein, Richard. Out of the Blue
Borg, Marcus. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time
Bugliosi, Vincent. Outrage
Buruma, Ian. Murder in Amsterdam
Cain, Chelsea. Heart Sick
Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road
Cherryh, C.J. Downbelow Station
Coben, Harlan. Deal Breaker
Conot, Robert. Justice at Nuremberg
Crais, Robert. The Watchman
DeLillo, Don. Libra
DeLillo, Don. White Noise
Doss, James. Shaman's Bones
Doss, James. Shaman's Game
Doss, James. Grandmother Spider
Doss, James. White Shell Woman
Dwyer, Jim and Kevin Flynn. 102 Minutes
Evans, Colin. Blood on the Table
Flynn, Stephen. America the Vulnerable
Frank, Pat. Alas Babylon
Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning
Friedlander, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews, the Years of Persecution
Gibson, William. Spook Country
Green, Tim. Exact Revenge
Grimwood, John Courtenay. End of the World Blues
Hamill, Denis. Ten Spot
Hamill, Pete. Downtown
Kean, Thomas and Lee Hamilton. Without Precedent
Kelly, John. The Great Mortality
Kerr, Philip. The One From the Other
Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine
Langewiesche, William. American Ground
Laskin, David. The Children's Blizzard
Leon, Donna. Aqua Alta
Leon, Donna. Blood from a Stone
Leon, Donna. The Death of Faith
Leon, Donna. Fatal Remedies
Leon, Donna. Friends in High Places
Leon, Donna. Venetian Reckoning
Mason, Daniel. Piano Tuner
Matthieson, Richard. I Am Legend
Maupin, Armistead. The Night Listener
Mitchell, Kirk. Cry Dance
Mitchell, Kirk. Dance of the Thunder Dogs
Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle. The Mote in God's Eye
Parker, T. Jefferson. California Girl
Parker, T. Jefferson. Red Light
Parker, T. Jefferson. Silent Joe
Parker, T. Jefferson. Storm Runners
Parker, T. Jefferson. Where Serpents Lie
Perret, Geoffrey. Lincoln's War
Persico, Joseph. Nuremberg
Pirsig, Robert. Lila
Pirsig, Robert. Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Preston, Douglas and Lincoln Child. Thunderhead
Price, Richard. Samaritan
Raab, Selwyn. Five Families
Reynolds, Alastair. Chasm City
Richardson, Mark. Zen and Now
Robinson, Peter. Strange Affair
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye
Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World
Smith, Jean Edward. Grant
Speer, Albert. Spandau
Stephenson, Neal. The Confusion
Stephenson, Neal. Zodiac
Stewart, Rory. The Places In Between
Stewart, Rory. Prince of the Marshes
Trevor-Roper, H.R. The Last Days of Hitler
Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us
West, Cornell. Democracy Matters
Williams, Walter. The Rift
Wills, Gary. What Jesus Meant
Wilson, F. Paul. Midnight Mass
Wilson, Robert Charles. Axis
Winchester, Simon. The Crack in the Edge of the World
Winchester, Simon. Krakatoa
Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World