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

I TRY to be good, I really do... But there are SO many books in the world. I mean a LOT. So, from time to time I add a few, so few, to my Wish List. I have been good lately though... I was going through the cheap section and actually DELETED three (or four?) books that I’d already bought elsewhere or where hardbacks that had already been replaced by paperbacks. So, I felt pretty good about adding only 10, 15, or maybe 20 more.... But here are the last 10... 

The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett 

How to Kill a Language:  Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words by Sophia Smith Galer 

Heatwave: The Summer of 1976 – Britain at Boiling Point by John L Williams 

Opening the Gates of Hell: Operation Barbarossa, June–July 1941 by Richard Hargreaves 

Castles: A Fortified History of the World by Dan Jones 

Plunder: The Last of the War in Europe, 1945 by Max Hastings 

The Visionaries: The Making of the Post World War II Order in the West by James Holland 

Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry that Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy 

How to Win a Trade War: A Friendly Guide to an Unfriendly World by Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown 

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares 

Quite a nice mix there, I think! My butterfly mind is alive and VERY well...!