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Member: Ammianus

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TagsWWII (379), Civil War (350), Napoleonic (256), historical fiction (136), Naval (122), ETO (122), Army of Northern Virginia (110), Roman (90), Army of Tennessee (78), Peninsular (74) — see all tags

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GroupsAmerican Civil War, Military History, Second World War History, Wargamer

Favorite authorsDan Abnett, Edward Porter Alexander, Martin Blumenson, Wallace Breem, Raymond Chandler, Bernard Cornwell, Carlo D'Este, Philip K. Dick, Alfred Duggan, Dorothy Dunnett, John Robert Elting, Shelby Foote, C. S. Forester, Alan Furst, Adrian Goldsworthy, Dashiell Hammett, Cecelia Holland, Douglas Reeman, Ross Macdonald, Ammianus Marcellinus, Patrick O'Brian, H. Beam Piper, Mary Renault, Pat Southern, Rosemary Sutcliff, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jack Vance, Donald E. Westlake, Xenophon, Eiji Yoshikawa, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)

About me"Life is simple...read books, drink coffee, feed the cat."
I'm a transplanted Mississippian living in Annapolis MD with my wife & cat. Trained as a military historian I now work as a member of the federal bureaucracy battling the unending deluge of email and herding cats while being pecked to death by ducks. Along with my interest in miltary history I'm also a wargamer and member of the Historical Miniature Gaming Society. My wife, a teacher of gifted & talented kids, and I, have tramped the malls and battlefields from Japan to Slovenia on the lookout for bookstores, battlefields, B&Bs and the odd jewelry store. Alesia, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Glorieta Pass, Omaha Beach and Bastogne are a few of our stops. I'm an ex-Army (91H, 98C) ISFJ kinda guy. We're both MAC users.

About my libraryClassic comic books, Landmark YA histories & the old ACE fantasy/scifi volumes got me started...now it's mostly military history with strong sections of related historical fiction or military science fiction/fantasy along with some hard-boiled detectives. Of course, I've got the obligatory DUNE & the Patrick O'Brians.
Along with Late Rome, the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, Napoleonics, American Civil War, & WWII I do have some particular collection interests: Robert Frederick's First Special Service Force, Merrill's Marauders, German surface raiders of WWI & WWII (Wolf & Atlantis etc), military staff officers (Berthier, Sorrel, B.Smith, Thiebault), the Civil War in the Southwest (Glorieta!) and of course anything by or about that Ammianus Marcellinus fellow!

So many books, so little time...

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Member sinceSep 25, 2006