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.
4 comments:
A LOT of interesting titles there, especially Stolen Revolution and The August Coup.
Most definitely. I remember the Russian 'coup' quite well so it'll be interesting to understand the details behind it all.
1873 sounds interesting.. I spent a lot of time in uni learning about 19th century revolutions, and while I can't remember a lot of details now, what sticks with me is there were a lot of sweeping (and fascinating) changes going on that get a bit lost these days between the focus on the Napoleonic Wars and WWI.
Yes... LOTS of upheaval between 1815 and 1914. It was a fascinating 100 years. There was a LOT of political unrest post-WW1 as well. The interwar years were anything BUT peaceful!
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