Books I have read
- Ivan's War: The Red Army 1939–1945, by
Catherine Merridale, Faber & Faber, 2005.
- The Old Way: A Story of the First People, by
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Sarah Crichton Books, New York, 2006.
- The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of
Plants, Anna Pavord, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (From the Beaten Track):
The Letters of Richard P. Feynman, edited and with an introduction
by Michelle Feynman, foreword by Timothy Ferris, Basic Books, 2005.
- A Writer at War: Wassily Grossman with the Red Army
1941–1945, edited and translated by Antony Beevor
and Luba Vinogradova, Pimlico 2006
- THUD!, by Terry Pratchett, Corgi Adult, 2005
- Security and Usability, by Lorrie Cranor and Simson
Garfinkel (Eds.), O’Reilly, 2005.
- In the Lion’s Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in
the Court of Henry VIII, by Derek Atkins, Pimlico.
- Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940–1945, by
Jörg Friedrich, List Taschenbücher, 2004. A
very depressing book, but also very interesting because it illuminates
a side of the second world war that was unknown to me.
- Orcs, Omnibus Edition, by Stan Nicholls, Gollancz,
2004. Yawn. I bought it because it promised
something different from the usual. In the end a deus ex
machina had to explain everything and the fighting scenes were
horrible. Put a throwing knife into someone’s eye at thirty paces?
Come on! I took it with me on a holiday trip and threw it away while
I was there so I’d save some weight.
- Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War, by
Gordon Corrigan, Weidenfeld Military, 2004. The
only war book that I have put aside after some pages. The basic
hypothesis is that the public perception of the Great War as
a useless slaughter of Britain’s youth is wrong. The hypothesis
may be true, but I don’t like the smart-alecky tone, or the
lack of neutrality.
- Kindheit in Ostpreußen, by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, btb, 1998.
- The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks, Picador, 1986.
- Berlin–Moskau: Eine Reise zu Fuß, by
Wolfgang Büscher, rororo, 2006. A man
walks from Berlin to Moscow, walking parallel to Napoleon’s army
and (more importantly) treading in the steps of Army Group
Centre.
- The Second World War, by John Keegan, Pimlico
- (Infantry) Attacks, by Erwin Rommel, Athena Press
(English Edition, not available in German)
- Stalingrad, by Antony Beevor, Penguin, 1998
- Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in
Burma, with a new Epilogue 50 Years On, by George MacDonald
Fraser, HarperCollins, 2000.
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- The Big Over Easy, by Jasper Fforde, Hodder and
Stoughton, 2006.
- The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black
Death, by John Kelly, Harper Collins
- A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s
Intelligence Agencies, by James Bamford, Anchor Books
- Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in
Nelson’s Fleet, by James Lowry, Chatham Publishing
- Looking for Jake, by China Miéville, Del Rey,
2005.
- The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, by William
F. Friedman and Elizebeth Friedman, Cambridge University Press,
1957.
- A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the
Most Notorious Pirates, by Captain Charles Johnson (introduction
and commentary by David Cordingly), Conway Maritime Press, 1998.
- By The Sword, by Richard Cohen, Modern Library,
2002.
- Berlin: The Downfall 1945, by Antony Beevor,
Penguin, 2003.
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, Morrow, 1999.
- Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson, Morrow, 2003
- The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson, Morrow, 2004.
- The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson, Morrow,
2004.
- Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily
Hacker, by William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin and Aviel
D. Rubin, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003.
- Inside Network Perimeter Security / The Definitive Guide
to Firewalls, VPNs, and Intrusion Detection Systems, by Stephen
Northcutt, Lenny Zeltser, Scott Winters, Karen Kent Frederick, and
Ronald W. Ritchey, New Riders, 2003.
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
- Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English
Experience.
- A Rage To Live: A Biography Of Richard And Isabel
Burton.
- sendmail, by Brian Costales with Eric Allman.
- Das Jahrhundert der Obszönität, by Gerhard
Henschel and Eckhard Henscheid.
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