The Last 10 Books (I added to my Wish List) - January 2026
I tend to go in splurges when I’m adding books (and other things) to my Wish List. Often if I’m reading something the author will reference a book or other author which will prompt some investigation. For example, I’ve been reading about the immediate post-war period recently, so I’ve become a little obsessed with the Cold War. Other things that might prompted a quick bit of splurging are YouTube videos or movies. So, here’s what I’ve added recently...
The Two Hundred Years War: The Bloody Crowns of England and France, 1292–1492 by Michael Livingston
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between by Michael Dobbs
The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle by Richard Vinen
1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World by Phil Craig
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko
The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav Zubok
No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One by Andrew Lambert
A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars by Alwyn Turner
Unsurprisingly, they’re all non-fiction and all history – but it's my ‘thing’. When (or even IF) I get around to reading these is anyone's guess, but that not an issue and never has been. I have to keep track of things SOMEHOW!
6 comments:
I was pondering To Run the World a few weeks back.
I mean, the book. I don't want to run the world personally. I'm a libertarian, and it seems like an awful lot of work .
Running small projects was bad enough - although I did once run a project involving over 300 people so not *that* small! By contrast my smallest project involved only 6!
Running an entire planet....? I can't even conceive of how it *could* be possible!
Can't wait to see what you think of The Unwanted. It was so awful, we could have saved so many.
Wait till you read my review of '1946'....
That Kennan biography is on my TBR, too. I hadn't heard about the Hawk and the Dove, but it looks good. If you haven't already read Isaacson's The Wise Men, it was pretty good & fits.
I've recently finished a book on 1946 and Kennan was mentioned quite a few times. Sounds like an interesting guy! Thanks for the rec... I seem to be developing a bit of a 'thing' for the Cold War ATM. Maybe I'm missing it... [lol]
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