I don’t get much time to read these days. Hoping that once “Blasting Through” is released, I will get back to it. In the meantime, here are ten of my favorites. Have you read any on this list? If so, what was your take?
1. “Annapurna - First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak,” by Maurice Herzog. (First climbing book)
2. “Hell on Ice - The Saga of the ‘Jeannette,’" by Commander Edward Ellsberg
3. “The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition,” by Caroline Alexander
4. “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - An Indian History of the American West,” by Dee Brown
5. “Unbroken - A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption,” by Laura Hillenbrand
6. “We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam,” by LTG Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway
7. “Into Cambodia - Spring Campaign, Summer Offensive, 1970,” by Keith William Nolan
8. “A Hell of a Bomb - How the Bombs of Barnes Wallis Helped Win the Second World War,” by Stephen Flower
9. “Relentless Strike - The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command,” by Sean Naylor
10. “The Thousand-Mile War - World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians,” by Brian Garfield