Books: Reading Room
This is a list of books that I am currently reading and that are likely to be
reviewed on the site. I do not review all the books I read, so this list will
never include everything that goes through my poor eyes. So, without further
ado and in no particular order (links point to running notes I am keeping):
History and War
- Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia (Gabriel Gorodetsky, 1999)
- The Second World War (John Keegan, 1989)
- The Failures of Peace: The Search for a Negotiated Peace During the First World War (Kent Forster, 1941)
- Atlas of World Military History (Richard Brooks, 2000)
- War in International Society (Evan Luard, 1986)
- On War (Carl von Clausewitz, 1832)
- History of the Second World War (B.H. Liddell Hart, 1970)
Japan
- Harusame Monogatari: Tales of the Spring Rain (Akinari Ueda, 1809)
- Warrior Rule in Japan (Marius B. Jansen, 1995)
- The Onin War (H. Paul Varley, 1967)
- Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985)
- Hideyoshi (Marry E. Berry, 1982)
- The Book of Kimono (Namanaka Norio, 1987)
- A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Tr. William H. and Helen Craig McCullough)
- Japanese Aesthetics and Culture (Ed. Nancy G. Hume, 1995)
- The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature (Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert Morrell, 1985)
- A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (Donald Richie, 2001)
Korea
- Korea Old and New (Carter J. Eckert et al., 1990)
- Introduction to Classical Korean Literature (Kim Kichung, 1996)
- The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (1996)
- Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the 19th Century (1981)
Travel
- The Desert (John C. Van Dyke, 1901)
- The Roads to Sata (Alan Booth, 1985)
- The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (John Wesley Powell, 1875)