Iain C. Martin's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
The Lord of the Rings, Goodbye Darkness, The Mask of Command, Six Armies in Normandy, At Dawn We Slept, The First and the Last, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, All Quiet on the Western Front, Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa, We Were Soldiers Once -- and Young, The Great Gatsby, A Helmet for My Pillow, A Rumor of War, Into Thin Air, Shadow Divers.
What I'm Reading
Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage by Noah Andre Trudeau
FDR by Jean Edward Smith
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black
FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends by Resa Willis
Favorite Authors
Shelby Foote, Bruce Catton, John Keegan, William Manchester, Martin Middlebrook, Richard B. Frank, Joseph H. Alexander, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Shaara, Jon Krakauer, Robert Kurson, Brad Matsen, Robert Sherrod, Robert Dallek.
Influences
John Keegan, James M. McPherson, Bruce Catton, Stephen Ambrose, Martin Middlebrook, Shelby Foote, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Barbara Tuchman. Also, Walt Whitman, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Shaara.
About Iain
Iain C. Martin is a freelance writer, historian, and the National Accounts Manager for Tantor Media, an audio book publisher in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. He holds a MA from Southern Connecticut State University in American History. Iain lives in Clinton,...
Iain’s Favorite Books
The Lord of the Rings, Goodbye Darkness, The Mask of Command, Six Armies in Normandy, At Dawn We Slept, The First and the Last, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu...