Someone around here, in what is no doubt a deliberate attempt to sabotage my already poor time management, handed me a copy of "The Mitrokhin Archive" (Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, Penguin).

This is a "history of the KGB in Europe and the West", based mainly on files that Mitrokhin secretly collected during his long career as a KGB ( Read more... )

Been home sick all week. Didn't read much of "Islands, Mounds and Atoms", but learned a lot about the Punic wars.