Why am I passionate about this?

My expertise regarding the approaching World War III: My father—John Bradley—fought in the horrible battle of Iwo Jima. My young future dad’s best friend—Ralph Ignatowski—was tortured to death underground for three days. My father was forced to find his body. It’s all covered in my book Flags of Our Fathers and the Steven Spielberg/Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. I have spent my adult life interviewing victims of war and produced five books about war’s inanity and horror. 

Good luck to you all surviving World War III.


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Precious Freedom

By James Bradley ,

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The books I picked & why

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James Bradley Why I love this book

The best book about war.

I knew Mr. Vonnegut personally; he spent over forty years thinking about this book and took over fifteen years to write it. Slaughterhouse Five is less than 200 pages. Only a genius could do that.

I have read it six times, and I will read it again as we soon enter World War III.

By Kurt Vonnegut ,

Why should I read it?

33 authors picked Slaughterhouse-Five as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds
 
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
 
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had…


Book cover of The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

James Bradley Why I love this book

This book helps us understand why all the sheep around us are illogically but emotionally walking over the cliff into World War III.

We imagine ourselves as individual agents making our own free will choices, but actually, we are walking, talking bundles of feelings who desperately wish to be judged by other sheep as good members of a tribe. We move as a herd, and to war again the crowd is going. We chant, “Follow the Leader.” But we follow the followers.

By Gustave Le Bon ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The Crowd as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

One of the most influential works of social psychology in history, The Crowd was highly instrumental in creating this field of study by analyzing, in detail, mass behavior. The book had a profound impact not only on Freud but also on such twentieth-century masters of crowd control as Hitler and Mussolini — both of whom may have used its observations as a guide to stirring up popular passions. In the author's words, "The masses have never thirsted after the truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim."…


Book cover of The Prince

James Bradley Why I love this book

Machiavelli will explain why and how our elected political shepherds are driving us herd of sheep to World War III.

Like me, you were required to read Machiavelli when you were young and dumb, and we didn’t grasp the power of his words. Now—even though it’s already too late—consider The Prince again to understand who we really are.

By Niccolò Machiavelli ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Prince as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The ends justifies the means.The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes – such as glory and survival – can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.


Book cover of The Neville Goddard Complete Collection (1939–1961)

James Bradley Why I love this book

Neville Goddard tells us how to move our lives from the horror which our elected political shepherds are moving us to a future of our own choosing.

Through Neville, you will discover that God, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Mohammed, and many more are all saying the same thing. It’s just that we’re not listening.

By Neville Goddard ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Neville Goddard Complete Collection (1939–1961) as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Unlock the Power Within: Transform Your Reality Through the Teachings of Neville Goddard!✅ Are you tired of feeling stuck in the same limiting patterns — no matter how hard you try to change your life?✅ Have you ever felt deep down that your thoughts and emotions shape your world… but you’re missing the exact method to turn that inner power into real results?You’ve read about manifestation…You’ve watched videos, repeated affirmations, visualized daily — but still, nothing really changes.You wake up each morning carrying the same doubts, stuck in the same job, the same relationships, the same limitations.And worst of all,…


Book cover of Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

James Bradley Why I love this book

Lao Tzu’s Tao de Ching has been reprinted more than the Bible.

I recommend you have at least five different translations. I have seventeen. The central guiding version you should dive into is The Tao of Power by R L Wing. At a minimum, have Stephen Mitchell’s sublime Tao de Ching alongside Wing’s The Tao of Power.

I have been absorbing translations of the Tao de Ching for over forty years. Lao Tzu deftly explains how the world works. Grasp it with your intuitive self.

By Lao Tzu , Stephen Mitchell (translator) ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Tao Te Ching as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell

"Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." — Huston Smith, author of The Religions of Man

In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill…


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By James Bradley ,

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