This month our genre is Military Non-Fiction! We talk about defining war, sword fighting, genocide, and conscription. Plus: Trebuchets!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

News

• RJ’s Bio (and everyone else’s bios too!)
• Anna and Matthew will be at the 2018 ALA Conference in New Orleans!
• Come to our Podcast Meetup! (1-2pm, Saturday, June 23rd, at the Networking Uncommons)

Books We Read This Month

• Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
• • Battle of Mogadishu (Wikipedia)
  • Black Hawk Down (film) (Wikipedia)
• Firing Line by Richard Holmes
• A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 by David J. Silbey
• • Philippine–American War (Wikipedia)
• East Timor: The Price Of Freedom by John G. Taylor
• • Indonesian occupation of East Timor (Wikipedia)
  • East Timor genocide (Wikipedia)
  • Timor-Leste: what it’s like to travel in a land without tourists
• The Book of Five Rings: A Graphic Novel by Miyamoto Musashi, Sean Michael Wilson, Chie Kutsuwada, and William Scott Wilson
• • Five elements (Japanese philosophy)  (Wikipedia)
  • Miyamoto Musashi (Wikipedia)
• War’s Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
• • The Fallen of World War II (animation)
• Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War by Patrick M Dennis
• • Conscription Crisis of 1917 (Wikipedia)
• The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World by Sharon Weinberger

Other Media We Mention

• Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
• • Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant (Wikipedia)
  • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents (Wikipedia)
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
• • Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman’s Last Journey by Ralph Leighton
• Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson
• • A trebuchet focused Cul de Sac comic
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• • Our episode on Religious Non-Fiction
• Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
• Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
• Palestine by Joe Sacco
• Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
• Band of Brothers (Wikipedia)
• Saving Private Ryan (Wikipedia)
• Apocalypse Now (Wikipedia)
• Coming Home (Wikipedia)
• The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme by John Keegan
• An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare by Joanna Bourke
• Mud: A Military History by C.E. Wood
• Imperialist Canada by Todd Gordon
• Independence Day (Wikipedia)
• Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
• Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler
• Call of Duty (Wikipedia)
• Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes
• The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin
• War Child: A Child Soldier’s Story by Emmanuel Jal
• • Emmanuel Jal – Warchild (YouTube)
• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
• The Golden Voice of the Royal Capital by Tyler Hauck
• • “One of the greatest-ever stars of Cambodian popular music was Ros Sereysothea, who made some electrifying rock’n’roll in the ’60s and ’70s. Her career ended when she was murdered by the Khmer Rouge, as were two million of her fellow Cambodians. This is her story.”
• The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs by Michael Belfiore
• On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

Links, Articles, and Things

• National Atomic Testing Museum
• The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery by William Gurstelle
• “Second annual ‘Punkin Chunkin’ scheduled for Oct. 21”
• Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program
• Chief of Staff of the Air Force Professional Reading List
• List of wars involving the United States (Wikipedia)
• Cambodian genocide (Wikipedia)
• Malayan Emergency (Wikipedia)
• Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966 (Wikipedia)
• Papua conflict (Wikipedia)
• United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (Wikipedia)
• Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Heart!
• Bushido Blade (Wikipedia)
• Gun fu (Wikipedia)
• • Equilibrium (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 3rd when we’ll talk about other things we’re reading or the 2018 ALA Conference in New Orleans! Which will it be? We don’t know!

Then come back on Tuesday, July 17th when we’ll be discussing Nordic/Scandinavian Noir!