Skip to content
Collected Miscellany
Avid Readers, Occasional Bloggers
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • About
  • Contributors

Tag: Iraq War

Reviews

Brothers Forever by Tom Sileo and Colonel Tom Manion

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

An awesome book about not only the sacrifices that the men and women of our country make fighting our wars, but also the sacrifices their families and other lov...

Reviews

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I listened to the audiobook in the car during my daily commute and enjoyed it. I really liked the sections dealing with Owen Brick and the other world of civil ...

Reviews

Home and Away by David and Nancy French

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Overall, an interesting story that offers a unique and valuable perspective for our times.

Reviews

Heart for the Fight by Brian Stann

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

When I received Brian Stann‘s Heart for the Fight: A Marine Hero’s Journey from the Battlefields of Iraq to Mixed Martial Arts Champion in the mail,...

Reviews

Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq by Steve Fainaru

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

I think the book is well done - it brings to light a world that is not easily uncovered due to the secrecy of the security firms and the U.S. government.

Reviews

The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq by Bing West

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

Wars fought like World War II may be in the past for the United States. Our country’s wars of the future will be more counterinsurgency focused where our ...

Seek

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Notes & Asides

  • I really enjoy The Pinkcast. But this one, on dealing with frustration, is particularly useful these days. Check it out.

    - #
  • OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing...

    - #
  • Highly recommend the three Lord of the Rings episodes from the Great Books podcast. Start with The Fellowship of the Ring episode.

    - #
  • While the laws that we live under matter a great deal, Christians need to recover the primacy of the personal over the political more than anything else. If we can’t love our neighbors in a personal, politically agnostic, face-to-face way, they’ll turn to synthetic and unreal ideological communities to fill the gap left by the loneliness of their daily lives.

    The road back to sanity, solidarity, and social trust on both sides of the political spectrum will involve turning away from this ideological cul-de-sac and back toward personal communities once more. If Christian churches won’t do this, they risk being exploited as political playthings of the powers that be. -- Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March

    - #
  • You’ll notice we are not having a national debate about paying off poor people’s mortgages. We could do that just as easily if the self-declared champions of the poor had any interest in anything other than their own status and their own appetites.

    They don’t.

    The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle

    - #

Last 10

  • “The Devil’s to Pay” John Buford at Gettysburg: A History and Walking Tour by Eric J. Wittenberg
  • Freiheit! by Andrea Grosso Ciponte
  • Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War by David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg
  • Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire
  • The Stoic Test: Daniel H. Pink on how to deal with frustration
  • A Man by Keiichirō Hirano
  • I’m done (promise)
  • LOTR on the Great Books Podcast
  • When you want to give up your New Year’s Resolution after two weeks…
  • Thomas Chatterton Williams: Wrestling with Race and Culture

Categories

What Kevin’s Reading

Tags

Amazon Kindle authors Bible blogging blogs Books Children's literature Christianity Christmas conservatism espionage Espionage Fiction faith fantasy Fantasy Fiction featured Fiction Folklore God Goodreads Historical fiction History illustration Jesus Literature memoir military history mystery non-fiction nonfiction Olen Steinhauer podcasts Politics Publishing Reading Religion and Spirituality Speculative fiction thriller thrillers translation Twitter video World War II Young Adult Fantasy young adult fiction

NetGalley

50 Book Reviews
Professional Reader

Archives

Connect

Mail Facebook RSS Tumblr Twitter
© 2021 Collected Miscellany
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy