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I have reread these and enjoyed them more the second time around, mostly because I felt justified in skipping bits about battle details and the songs (and most of anything to do with the humans, really)

I know that Tolkien was a linguist, and even made up a usable language for the elves, so it rather baffles me that the writing seems so flat. I can only conjecture that it is matter of perfecting language rather than using it as a tool for evoking something in the reader. I am guessing it is just a difference of preferences.

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AMX-30: Char de Bataille 1966-2006

M.P. Robinson

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The AMX-30 was France's principal battle tank for over 30 years and continues to serve the French...

Air Gear: v. 3

Oh! Great

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Itsuki is still getting the hang of his Air Trecks - the super high-tech skates that have helped him...

The Fall of Dragons (Traitor Son Cycle #5)

Miles Cameron

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The Red Knight's final battle lies ahead ...but there's a whole war still to fight first. He began...

Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1921-45

Mark Stille and Tony Bryan

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The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first...

Christiane Amanpour recommended We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam in Books (curated)

"The flip side of the “The Sorrow of War,” this book is a brilliant and telling account of one brutal battle in Vietnam from the American perspective. Moore was the commander of soldiers who were airdropped into the jungle, only to be promptly surrounded and massively outnumbered by North Vietnamese troops. The reporter Joseph Galloway had rare access to the troops, witnessing this desperate battle for survival. I love it for the story of heroic journalism. It is why I so admire books like “Once Upon a Distant War,” by William Prochnau, which is the Vietnam war seen through the eyes of legendary correspondents like Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam, Peter Arnett, and others of that generation, providing stark evidence of their courage and fearless contributions to history and truth."

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