I made an entry in the 2007 or 2008 thread, but never kept it up. I'm going to do better this year. Actually I have a head start since I've been keeping a "books read" list on my PDA. Here it is... dates are when I completed reading the book (sometimes I read two or more at once). I won't bother putting in Amazon links, if you need info just highlight, right click and search in Amazon. You do have Amazon as your default search engine, right?
. If there is a link it's because it doesn't show up in Amazon for some reason. If you can't find the book via Amazon, it should be listed in LibraryThing.com.
BIHotVC is Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century
BIHotC is Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Car
Last Updated 12/31/09; total for 2009, 120 books read
2009 Read Book List Newest added at top:
"Tommy Gun: How General Thompson's Submachinegun Wrote History" by Bill Yenne 12/25/09
"Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room" by Michael K. Bohn 12/22/09
"Faster Than Sound: The Story of Supersonic Flight" by Bill Gunston 12/18/09
"Military Money: Fiscal History of the U.S. Army Overseas in World War II" by Walter Rundell Jr. 12/17/09
"Down Range: Navy SEALs in the War on Terrorism" by Dick Couch 12/14/09
"Iraq 1941" (Osprey Campaign 165) by Robert Lyman 12/10/09
"Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" by Jeremy Scahill 12/9/09
"Asteroids: A History" by Curtis Peebles 12/9/09
"Night Action" by Captain Peter Dickens 12/5/09
"Modern Warship Design and Developement" by Norman Friedman PDF 12/4/09
"Arming The Fleet: U.S. Navy Ordnance in the Muzzle-Loading Era" by Spencer Tucker 12/1/09
"The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900" by Diana Preston 11/24/09
"Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938" by R. A. Scotti 11/18/09
"Don't Bunch Up: One Marine's Story" by William Van Zanten 11/16/09
"Mosby's Rangers: The True Adventures of the Most Famous Command of the Civil War" by Jeffery D. West 11/13/09
"Rocketman: My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations" by Ky Michaelson 11/13/09
"The March Up: Taking Bagdad with the 1st Marine Division" by Ray L. Smith and Bing West PDF 11/11/09
"We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway 11/11/09
"Ferrari" by Leonard Setright (BIHotC) 11/6/09
"Measuring America: How the United States was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History" by Andro Linklater 11/3/09
"Tanganyikan Guerrilla: East African Campaign 1914-18" (BIHotVC) by Major J R Sibley 10/26/09 (100th book of 2009!)
"Wall Street: A History From It's Beginnings To The Fall of Enron" by Charles R. Geisst 10/26/09
"The Samson Option" by Seymour M. Hersh 10/20/09
"Setting The Stage (The Vietnam Experience)" by Edward Dolye and Samuel Lipsman 10/19/09
"The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher" by Debby Applegate 10/15/09
"Soviet Helicopters: Design, Developments and Tactics" by John Everett-Heath 10/9/09
"Steel Victory: The Heroic Story of America's Independent Tank Battalions at War in Europe" 10/9/09
"Twilight of the Hapsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph" by Alan Palmer 10/6/09
"Snake Driver!" by Bob Rosenburgh 10/5/09
"Ghost Force: The Secret History of the SAS" by Ken Connor 9/30/09
“Ground War Vietnam, Vol. 1 1945-1965 - Vietnam Studies Group” by Jim Mesko 9/28/09
"Fire on the Mountain" by John N. MacLean 9/28/09
"England in Transition" by Dorothy George 9/23/09
"Triangle: The Fire That Changed America" by David Von Drehle 9/22/09
"Tan Phu: Special Forces Team A-23 in Combat" by Leigh Wade 9/20/09
"Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776" by Ian Williams 9/16/09
"The Battle For Saigon: Tet 1968" by Keith William Nolan 9/15/09
"Out in the Midday Sun" by Kate Caffrey 9/14/09
"Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver In The Pacific" by Robert C. Dick 9/10/09
"Delta: The History of an Airline" by W. David Lewis and Wesley Phillips Newton (GU) 9/10/09
"Dusty Warriors" by Richard Holmes 9/8/09
"Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull" by Barbara Goldsmith 9/4/09
"War In The Streets: The Story of Urban Combat from Calais to Khafji" by Colonel Michael Dewar 9/3/09
"Seize The Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time" by David Prerau 9/1/09
"Combat Swimmer: Memoirs of a Navy SEAL" by Robert A. Gormley 8/31/09
"How Steam Locomotives Really Work'' by P. W. B. Semmens and A. J. Goldfinch 8/28/09
"Submarine Design and Development" by Norman Friedman 8/27/09
"The Gold Ring" by Kennth D. Ackerman 8/23/09
"Israeli Special Forces" (The Power Series) by Samuel M. Katz 8/18/09
"Benetton - Formula 1 Racing Team" - Alan Henry 8/18/09
"What If? Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been" edited by Robert Cowley 8/14/09
"The Fields of Bamboo" by SLA Marshall 8/13/09
“Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America” by Eric Jay Dolin 8/11/09
"Terry Jones' Medieval Lives" by Terry Jones & Alan Ereira 8/8/09
"The Making of an African Legend: The Biafra Story" by Frederick Forsyth 8/6/09
"San Francisco's Cable Cars" by Joyce Jansen 8/5/09
"The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow 8/5/09
"Building The Suez Canal" by S. C. Burchell 7/29/09
"Roberts Ridge" by Malcolm MacPherson 7/28/09
“ENIAC” by Scott McCartney 7/26/09
"Dustoff: The Memoir of an Army Aviator" by Michael J. Novosel 7/24/09
"What Hath God Wrought" by Daniel Walker Howe 7/23/09
"Death Ground" by Daniel P. Bolger 7/20/09
"The Bullet-Catchers" by Tony Geraghty 7/10/09
"Dr. Johnson's London" by Liza Picard 7/6/09
"Umbrella Mike" by Brock Yates 6/30/09
"U.S. Army Special Forces" (Power Series) by Fred J. Pushies 6/29/09
“Fire on the Rim” by Stephen J. Pyne 6/28/09
''Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'' by Lynne Truss 6/28/09
“Summer of '49'' by David Halberstam 6/25/09
“Six Silent Men: Book 1” by Reynel Martinez 6/22/09
“Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen” by Walter Henry Nelson 6/16/09
"Empires of the Word" by Nicholas Ostler 6/15/09
''A Closer Shave: Man's Daily Search for Perfection'' by Wallace Pinfold 6/14/09
“Railways of Australia” by Singleton and Burke 6/14/09
"Brown Water, Black Beret" by Thomas J. Cutler 6/11/09
"Jackboot" by John Laffin 6/4/09
"Jaguar: Britain's Fastest Export" by Lord Montagu of Bealieu (BIHotC) 6/1/09
"Battle For Hue: Tet 1968" by Keith William Nolan 5/30/09
"Washington's Spies" by Alexander Rose 5/27/09
"The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage 5/24/09
"Porsche 356" by Dennis Jenkinson 5/23/09
"Mexico: Biography of Power" by Enrique Krauze 5/23/09
''15 Months in SOG: A Warrior's Tour'' by Thom Nicholson 5/17/09
"The River Congo" by Peter Forbath 5/16/09
"The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road 1567-1659" by Geoffrey Parker 5/10/09
''19th Century Torpedoes and Their Inventors'' by Edwin Gray 5/4/09
''The Command of the Ocean'' by N.A.M. Rodger 5/1/09
"Washington at War'' by David Brinkley 4/28/09
“Rotterdamn invasion of Holland” (BIHotVC) by Wilhelmina Steenbeek 4/24/09
"Elizabeth's London" by Liza Picard 4/23/09
"Secret Underground Cities" by N.J. McCamley 4/21/09
"Weapons of Desperation" by Lawrence Paterson 4/17/09
"Vimy Ridge 1914-1918" (BIHotVC) by Kenneth Macksey 4/17/09
"South African War Machine" by Helmoed-Romer Heitman 4/15/09
''The Race'' by Tim Zimmermann 4/13/09
'"Operation Buffalo" by Keith William Nolan 4/7/09
''The Campaign of the Century" by Greg Mitchell 3/30/09
"Future Weapons" by Kevin Dockery 3/21/09
"The Box" by Kisseloff 3/19/09
The Fire of His Genius - Sale 3/14/09
Retreat from Gettybury - Brown 3/12/09
Brooklands (BIHotC) 3/8/09
The Perils of Peace (Flemming) 3/6/09
The New Mercenaries (Mockler) 3/1/09
The Hot Zone (Preston) 2/22/09
The Bloody Crucible of Courage (Nosworthy) 2/20/09
Condor Legion (BIHotVC) 2/16/09
Operation Barras - Fowler 2/13/09
Military Helicopters (Brassey’s) 2/9/09
American Silent Films 2/9/09
Sabre Squadron (Spence) 2/5/09
Guns of the Elite Forces (Walter) 2/1/09
Infantry Weapons (John Weeks BIHotVC) 1/23/09
The Soviet-Afghan War (ed Grau & Gress) 1/19/09
After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC (Steven Mithen) 1/15/09
Weapons of Delta Force (Battle Gear) 1/15/09
Zeebrugge (Barrie Pitt) 1/12/09
Battle Rattle: The Stuff a Soldier Carries (Battle Gear) by Hans Halberstadt 1/12/09
Thunderstruck (Erik Larson) 1/2/09