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On Books & Reading: My TBR Stack – Any Progress Yet?

Jun 7, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Books, Fire & Steel: The End of World War II in the West, James D. Hornfischer, Military History, Peter Caddick-Adams, SSN (Tom Clancy novel), U.S. History, Watergate: A New History, Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960, World War II (1939-1945)

Greetings, Dear Reader. It is late morning in Lithia, Florida, on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. It is a warm, humid day here in the Tampa Bay area. Currently, the temperature is 84°F (29°C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 80% and the wind blowing at 2 MPH (3 KM/H) from the north-northwest, the heat index…
Book Review: ‘SSN’ (originally published as ‘SSN: Strategies of Submarine Warfare’)

May 29, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Amazon, Book Reviews, Books, Cold Waters, Computer and Video Games, SSN (Tom Clancy novel)

The Inspiration: Tom Clancy’s SSN On November 16, 1996, Simon & Schuster Interactive released Tom Clancy’s SSN, a computer video game/submarine simulator based on the Improved Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack sub USS Cheyenne (SSN-773). Co-produced by Clancy Interactive Entertainment and Virtus Corporation, SSN was a single-player third-person perspective game set in what was then the…