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Re: Read anything good recently?
Shake Hands With The Devil by General Romeo Dallaire. Details the failed response to the Rwandan genocide. Agonizing read.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a good shout, as are William Manchester's two volumes on Winston. Never got through Martin Gilbert's Churchill books.
Jon Krakeur books are always worth a second read. Especially Into the Wild aboot a upper-middle class American kid who sells dispouses American society and ends up in dead in the Alaskan wilderness. Into Thin Air was good as well, although at the crucial part of the Everest disaster he was suffering from hypoxic altitude sickness.
Not a big reader of fiction, but remember reading The Beach (whilst on a beach in the Dominican Republic) and thought it was good. Movie was shite beyond belief.
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