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Marko’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Marko’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Marko Kloos
Goodreads Author
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in Germany
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March 2012
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https://www.goodreads.com/marko_kloos
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Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines, #1)
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2013
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30 editions
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Lines of Departure (Frontlines, #2)
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2014
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20 editions
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Angles of Attack (Frontlines, #3)
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2015
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15 editions
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Chains of Command (Frontlines, #4)
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2016
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15 editions
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Fields of Fire (Frontlines, #5)
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2017
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10 editions
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Points of Impact (Frontlines, #6)
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2018
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9 editions
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Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars #1)
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2019
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9 editions
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Orders of Battle (Frontlines, #7)
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2020
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6 editions
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Ballistic (The Palladium Wars #2)
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2020
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9 editions
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Centers of Gravity (Frontlines, #8)
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2022
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5 editions
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Spicy Pillow Syndrome
I was typing on my old MacBook Pro today and noticed that the bottom case was wobbling back and forth a little despite being on a flat desk.
I grabbed my trusty iFixit toolkit, took off the case bottom, and found this:
That’s what we call a “spicy pillow”, a lithium-ion battery that has chemically degraded to the point of releasing gas. The only way to fix it is
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“Keep in mind that without the law, we’re not a military, just an armed gang that dresses alike.”
― Lines of Departure
― Lines of Departure
“In truth, warfare has changed very little since our great-great-grandfathers killed each other at places like Gettysburg, the Somme, Normandy, or Baghdad. It’s still mostly about scared men with rifles charging into places defended by other scared men with rifles.”
― Lines of Departure
― Lines of Departure
“There’s no perfect place, you know. You always end up trading one kind of shit for another. Me, I’ll stick with the shit I know.”
― Terms of Enlistment
― Terms of Enlistment
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“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
“People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was a fight to the death with the forces of evil, and the stakes were survival and civilization itself. It is no simple thing to make people believe such things and later persuade them to accept a settlement based on compromise.”
― A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
― A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
