Tag: The Burning Mountain (1983 novel)
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, January 14, 2023, or: Low Temperatures, Cold Symptoms Put the Kibosh on a Planned Book Review
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in Alfred Coppel, Blogging, Books, Code-Name Downfall: The Top-Secret Plan to Invade Japan – and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Military History, Personal Thoughts, The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan (1983)A cold front passed through Central Florida between yesterday afternoon and early this morning, so the temperature in Lithia (as I write this) is 47°F/8°C under mostly cloudy skies on Saturday, January 14, 2023. The house is warmer than that, thank the Force, but I still have that nagging cold, and the combination of low…
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On Books & Reading: ‘Hell to Pay’ Gets Added to My TBR Stack
As I reported yesterday on my blog post Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, November 3, 2022, or: Movies, Moods, and Aspirations, Amazon Prime delivered my copy of D.M. Giangreco’s Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, a non-fiction book about the plans, projections, and preparations for the U.S.-led Allied invasion of…
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On History & World War II: Commemorating the 77th ‘Non-Anniversary’ of ‘X-Day’
As you – probably – know if you’re a frequent visitor to this space, I have been a World War II buff since I was a young boy (of six!) living in Bogota, Colombia. Because the war was massively global in scale – far more so than the First World War, in fact – and…
A Certain Point of View, Too 