by zen | Apr 4, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft ad the Call of National Security by Bartholomew Sparrow The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan The Memoirs of Ernst Rohm by Ernst Rohm Heinrich Himmler by Peter...
by zen | Sep 23, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Diary of the Dark Years by Jean Guéhenno Augustus by Adrian Goldsworthy The Nixon Tapes edited by Douglas Brinkley & Luke Nichter Japanese Swordsmanship: Technique and Practice by Gordon Warner &...
by zen | Aug 13, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics by Frederic Spotts Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind by Mark Pagel How Hitler Could have Won WWII by Bevin Alexander The American Way of War: A History of...
by zen | Aug 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Orientalist by Tom Reiss Some biographies are as much about the era or the milieu as the man. The Orientalist is one of them. This is not to say that Tom Reiss has written a bad book. On the contrary, it is an...
by zen | Jul 15, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson When I first posted that I had received a review copy of American Spartan from Callie, it stirred a vigorous...