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The War Nerd Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Radio War Nerd podcast. Author of "The War Nerd Iliad" & "Pleasant Hell". Email: radiowarnerd at gmail dot com

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Book Cover for: Three Months in the Southern States, Col Fremantle

Three Months in the Southern States

Col FremantleThe War NerdThe War Nerd

I've been reading Three Months in the Southern States, an 1863 journal by Col Arthur Fremantle of the Coldstream Guards. Fremantle, who was played by James Lancaster in Gettysburg, as an insinuating gawp in a pillbox hat, believes everything the CSA elite tells him... https://t.co/WCIKvU7OkU

Hardcover, 2020

$66.90$41.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History, John Logan

The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History

John LoganThe War NerdThe War Nerd

This is from John Logan's excellent book The Great Conspiracy. He's describing the dominant wing of the Democratic Party in 1864. This faction refused to vote for the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery. They did it in a dismally familiar, "centrist" way... https://t.co/02HIVXWmMm

Paperback, 2014

$33.24$16.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All, Stephen D. Engle

Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All

Stephen D. EngleThe War NerdThe War Nerd

On a less joyous CW note: The consensual blindness to obvious treason among mainstream CW writers is astonishing. Case in point: Stephen Engle's biography of Don Carlos Buell—a good book overall—describes in detail Buell's visit to Charleston SC a few days before the war began... https://t.co/9En2mhTpF9

Paperback, 2014

$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia PlathThe War NerdThe War Nerd

We're having a RWN meetup in Glasgow. It's at 2 pm, Sunday March 12, at the Bell Jar Pub, 21 Dixon Avenue, Govan Hill. There will be a prize for the best legend invented to explain why this pub was named after a Sylvia Plath novel. https://t.co/pE94ZfdCUg

Paperback, 2005

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Next!: The Search for My Last First Date, Robert James

Next!: The Search for My Last First Date

Robert JamesThe War NerdThe War Nerd

This is how a stained-glass window in Boise, Idaho used to look. That guy in green? Not James Caan, despite the resemblance. That's Robert E. Lee, standing awkwardly next to his buddy Abraham Lincoln... https://t.co/CyNJXX9Be3

Hardcover, 2014

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Secret Circle: The Hunt, L. J. Smith

The Secret Circle: The Hunt

L. J. SmithThe War NerdThe War Nerd

Here it is, RWN 290, the second appearance of RWN guest Matt Farwell, author of American Cipher and Afghan vet. Matt talks about his new project The Hunt for Tom Clancy, about how Tom Clancy's books became, not by accident, so popular... https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-54359035 https://t.co/g0bg7eaFxv

Paperback, 2022

$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, Ryan Gingeras

The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

Ryan GingerasThe War NerdThe War Nerd

Up now: Part 1 of our two-part series on the last days of the Ottoman Empire and the so-called Young Turks. We interview Ryan Gingeras @nords41, author of The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire and The Fall of the Sultanate. https://t.co/cBRkfcGPeC

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Book Cover for: Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918, Louis Barthas

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

Louis BarthasThe War NerdThe War Nerd

The latest RWN newsletter should be in subscribers' email now.. This one is in appreciation of Louis Barthas' WW 1 journals, translated and published as Poilu. The biggest shock for me wasn't the carnage... Subscribe & join the WN Legion! https://t.co/cVB7onNf9t https://t.co/NySPZDUM5w

Paperback, 2015

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Three Months In The Southern States: April - June 1863, Lieut -Col Fremantle

Three Months In The Southern States: April - June 1863

Lieut -Col FremantleThe War NerdThe War Nerd

I've been reading Three Months in the Southern States, an 1863 journal by Col Arthur Fremantle of the Coldstream Guards. Fremantle, who was played by James Lancaster in Gettysburg, as an insinuating gawp in a pillbox hat, believes everything the CSA elite tells him... https://t.co/WCIKvU7OkU

Paperback, 2013

$13.75$6.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain

Life on the Mississippi

Mark TwainThe War NerdThe War Nerd

Researching the next RWN Civil War episode, I came across a real surprise: Ol' Man River does not mark the Louisiana/Mississippi border. Not exactly anyway. If you've read Twain's Life on the Mississippi, you know how violently the river used to carve away at its banks... https://t.co/wCSmcX9muy

Paperback, 1985

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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