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!
2 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!
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