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 | I am almost finished reading Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. One must be careful reading such material, since some translations of Hitler purposefully make the man out to be a raging lunatic (for obvious political reasons), when actually he was a decent-minded and noble Christian who was deeply concerned for the fate of his Nation and his Race. The translation by James Murphy, originally done in the 1930’s, is widely available today and is very fair and objective. |
| Earlier this year I read Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, which contains much insight on the Saxon invasion and settlement of Britain, and also on the early lifestyles of the English, their religion and attitudes towards their kindred neighbors, especially the Scots, Picts, Germans and Irish. Actually, Bede admitted that the English are Germans, and he called all the Scots and the inhabitants of Eire by the name “Irish”, or “Hibernian” in his Latin. |  |
  | Last year I read both Procopius and Polybius. The volumes in Harvard’s Loeb Library are certainly the finest editions of the Classics, since they are usually done quite well and by some of the best scholars, and they include the original language of each particular writer (Greek or Latin) along with an English translation. |
| I have recently acquired and shall hopefully soon read both the last two volumes of Euripides, which I’ve waited several years for in anticipation of their being published, and also The Argonautica, and a new volume of Aeschylus. Pliny’s Natural History is also on my short list. |   |
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