{"id":3558,"date":"2010-10-10T05:09:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T05:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2010-10-10T05:09:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T05:09:33","slug":"book-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3558","title":{"rendered":"Book Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy review copies that arrived this week from authors and publishers. Sweet!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Derek Leebaert<\/strong><\/p>\n

Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Anthony Shaffer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by Hugh Shelton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Clint van Winkle<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really enjoyed Leebaert’s early Cold War history, The Fifty Year Wound<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and therefore, have high hopes for Magic and Mayhem<\/strong>.\u00a0 By contrast, Operation Dark Heart<\/strong> has already been the subject of controversy when the Pentagon bought up the entire first edition in order to wheedle an idiosyncratic list of redactions <\/a>from the publisher for the second edition.<\/p>\n

A note to readers, General Shelton, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/strong>, and LTC Anthony Shaffer are both associated with the new military affairs and history site, Command Posts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In addition to review copies, I shelled out some hard-earned cash for a few other titles:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 by James J. O’Donnell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Anthony Pagden<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Christopher Hibbert<\/strong><\/p>\n

What new books have you just picked up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy review copies that arrived this week from authors and publishers. Sweet! \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan\u00a0by Derek Leebaert Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan\u00a0by Anthony Shaffer Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior\u00a0by Hugh Shelton Soft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,414,420,133,304,586,102,87,165,51,78,336,39,445,1,18,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ancient-history","category-authors","category-book","category-defense","category-dime","category-diplomacy","category-foreign-policy","category-historians","category-history","category-ideas","category-intellectuals","category-military","category-reading","category-uncategorized","category-war","category-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}