The Last 10 Books (I added to my Wish List) - June 2026 

I ordered a book off my Wish List last week and almost before I realised it had added three more to it. This happens a LOT, at least to me. One of the things that prompts such behaviour is, of course, the ‘useful’ feature of “people who bought/viewed this also bought/viewed” which leads me down a book adding rabbit hole powered by the surge of a sudden tsunami. The other major gateway drug to book adding is the growing number of BookTubers that regularly show up on my feed. Most of their videos don’t cause me to go on an adding frenzy, but some... oh my.... Only one recently added book was from another source. I had just re-watched the classic 1964 movie Zulu (which I remember watching at the cinema bit COULDN’T have been IN 1964 as I don’t think my dad would’ve taken a FOUR-year-old to see it!) which go me wondering about the real battle... So, the new additions are: 

Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift by Ian Knight 

Ricochet: Guns, Greed, and the American Way of Violence by Mike McIntire 

Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers by Hannah Lucinda Smith 

Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati 

The August Coup: The Destruction of the Soviet Union and the Making of New Russia 1985-1991 by Robert Service 

1873: The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed 

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight 

Stealing Hitler's Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V-2 Rocket Out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain by Guy Walters 

Pearl Harbor: Japan's Greatest Disaster by Mark Stille 

Alexander: God, King, Man by Edmund Richardson 

It's the usual history heavy mix but still a fair range of subject areas. But, as usual, I’ve ZERO idea when I’ll get around to actually reading them – if I ever do... But that’s all part of the fun.