Monday Rolling

Good morning, Stroock's Books reader(s) and condolences to Stroock's Books Catholic Contingent. We'll say the mourner's Kaddish for the late pope. 

War Night: Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975 is rolling. This morning, War Night is ranked #11 in its Amazon category and has 4 ratings each of 5 stars. Oh look there's War Night's first five star review on Goodreads. Full disclosure, we know the reviewer. Our rule is we don't know if we wrote a good book till we get ten ratings. So we're halfway there. 

Israel Radar had an interesting idea about a potential Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites. Mentally, we've always imagined one big Pearl Harbor job (as in Israeli Strikes) on half a dozen nuclear sites at once. But what if the Israelis hit one nuclear site and ask, 'You wanna negotiate now?' Interesting

Related...The Times of Israel reports, 'Bennett hospitalized overnight after feeling unwell, undergoes cardiac catheterization...Former PM admitted to Meir Medical Center following a workout and is in good condition, says his spokesperson; will remain hospitalized for monitoring and treatment.' You don't say! We know a thing or two about cardiac catheterization. This is exactly how it went down for us.

Kind of related...2015 so Mean. FB tells us we posted this ten years ago: 'So I'm all gimpy and walking around with a cane (don't ask), and I'm just telling people its an old shrapnel wound I got over Macho Grande.' Yep, that's the beginning of our diagnosed gout problem. We got two more anniversaries this year, see above for one of them. 

Pursuant to our idea about writing a series of military history articles about the American Revolution, the leader of this blog's Confederate contingent asked about books on the American Revolution in the south and the Loyalists in general. The best books we know are The Road to Guilford Courthouse by John Buchanan, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens by Lawrence E. Babits and the American Revolution in the Southern Colonies by David Lee Russell. See also this article we did long ago, about Colonel Otho Holland Williams. 

Mel Gibson's The Patriot, is a sensationalized but more or less accurate action/adventure about the American Revolution in the south. Benjamin Martin is based on Francis Marion. Tavington is based on Banastre Tarleton, who was a heck of a villain. 'Bloody Ban' they called him. But honestly Tarleton got a bad wrap. He was really just an aggressive cavalry commander with a ton of panache. The British Nathan Bedford Forrest?