Books I read in 2019

Each year I write a list of books I read during the year. This is the 2019 list:

1. Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution. Tells the history of the most famous military drone: The Predator.
2. Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing. A combat wing is a collection of different military aircraft organized to complete a specific mission. This book tells you about the different aircraft, the weapons, and the organization.
3. Bomb Hunters: Life and Death Stories with Britain's Elite Bomb Disposal Unit in Afghanistan.  
4. A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight. Tells the story of a carrier based squadron of torpedo bombers during the battle of Midway and Guadalcanal. 
5. Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. There are many books on how to make games, but this book is written by the game developer who made RimWorld. That game sold more than one million copies, so you better study the book. He wrote it before he made RimWorld. 
6. Dust Off - Army Aeromedical Evacuation in Vietnam. Tells the story of medical helicopters in the Vietnam War. Is available for free!
7. The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era. One often forgotten achievement of humanity is that we have electricity in our homes. But this system is crumbling because the system is old and will also change to be more environmentally friendly, so if you want to learn about the feature of how to deliver electricity, you should read this book. 
8. Logistic Support. Much has been said about the battles of the Vietnam War - but not what happened behind the scenes. To fight a battle you need ammunition, food, etc. How can you transport it from US to Vietnam in the best way? This book will give you an overview of the logistics behind the Vietnam War. Is available for free!
9. Wind, Sand and Stars. Is a memoir written by a french pilot who in the 1930s was flying mail across the french empire. 
10. Topgun: An American Story. Is written by one of the founders of Topgun (and yes it is "Topgun" and not "Top gun" as in the movie). Despite the name, the book is not only about Topgun - it's a biography of the authors career in the US Navy.  It starts with the Vietnam war, some Topgun in the middle, and ends when he commands an aircraft carrier. His basic idea is that the pilot is more important than the aircraft, so it includes some criticism of the latest aircraft in the US Navy: the F-35, arguing that a cheaper aircraft with a more skilled pilot would have been a better solution.
11. Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? Tells the history of the chicken. 
12. Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam. Khe Sanh was a military airfield in Vietnam and this book tells the story of when it was under siege for more than two months.  
13. The Colosseum. Tells the history of the famous Roman amphitheater. The most interesting part is how little we know of what actually happened in the Colosseum. Not many sources exists, so movies have taken a lot of creative freedom. 
14. Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo. Tells the story of what happened to the Zoo in central Baghdad after the 2003 Iraq war. 
15. When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam. 
16. Worm: The First Digital World War. Tells the story of the Conficker computer worm which was a virus people thought would cause the end of Internet.
17. We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever. With the longest sub-title ever there's no need for further descriptions.
18. Circle the wagons - The history of US Army convoy security. Is available for free. 
19. Nine Lives: My time as the MI6's top spy inside al-Qaeda. 
20. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors. Consists of several examples of where minor mathematical errors have resulted in big consequences. For example, ground crew confused the units of measurement when they put fuel in an aircraft, so the aircraft ran out of fuel and almost crashed (the fuel gauges were also broken). 
21. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character. A book about the Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman (spoiler: he didn't want the prize). 
22. Permanent Record. Biography on Edward Snowden.
23. Unity 2017 Game Optimization - Second Edition: Optimize all aspects of Unity performance. 

Books in Swedish

1. Det bevingade verket. Tells the history of the Swedish Air Force. 
2. Med invasionen i sikte. Tells the history of the Swedish Air Force 1958-1966, and how a war with the Soviet Union would have happened. 
3. ÖB:s klubba - Flygvapnets attackeskader under kalla kriget. Tells the story of the ground attack part of the Swedish Air Force during the Cold War. 
4. System 37 Viggen. Consists of shorter stories written by people who were involved with the Viggen project, which was a Swedish military aircraft. 
5. Svenska hackare. Gives you an overview of who has been hacking what with a focus on Sweden.
6. Poltava. Tells the story of a famous battle between Sweden and Russia in the 18th century. 
7. På spaning efter det okända - Bilder från kalla krigets ubåtsjakt. Each chapter is written by someone who was involved in the 80's anti-submarine hunts in Sweden. 
8. Ubåtsfrågan 1981-1994. The Swedish government set up a total of three groups with the task of analyzing the assumed underwater violations of Swedish waters that have been going on mainly in the 80's. This is the second group's report.