What tare the best history books that you have read?

>>7649604
>Rüdiger Safranski's Schopenhauer and the wild years of philosophy.
>Peter Burke's the great cat massacre.

>>7649604
>reading any book about Napoleon in 1812 other than War and Peace

>>7649604
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

>>7649626
>Rüdiger Safranski
His Nietzsche biography was pretty good

>>7649604
havn't read that many but i have read segur's napeoleon's russian campaign

give that a go

>>7649640
I have read War and Peace though.

Wanted some more background on the war.

Generation Kill
1776 was pretty good
Bernard Lewis's Middle East book was good
When Asia Was the World was a quick read
Currently reading All the Shah's Men and liking it so far

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Monologe im Führerhauptquartier.

>>7649604
>The Roman Revolution

>>7649640

I'm in the process of reading a memoir by a French soldier in Napoleon's army. They go into Russia, but I haven't gotten there yet.

Also, you can't go wrong with autobiographies.

A Savage War of Peace

Algerian war was nuts

Tragedy and Hope

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This one really BTFOs all the ethnocentric propaganda and reveals history as it really is

>>7653137
Is this intensely sensationalist?

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This is a great entry level read
Would also rec The Spanish Civil War" by Hugh Thomas for a more in depth factual analysis of the war

>>7649604
herodotus ...
>reading his descriptions of the bronze three-headed serpent at delphi then stumbling into it at the hippodrome in istanbul. amazing.

>>7650476
>Marxist

>>7650476
Poor thing.

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For those into the (American) Civil War.

I'm reading another installment of the Oxford History of the United States (The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauf) and it is so much less interesting than Battle Cry.

bumping this

>>7653137
Anyone else have an opinion on this aside from Will?

>>7654669
Zinn is a cuck and a shill. GTFO with that pleb tier shit.

>>7654678
no

Into the Silence by Wade Davis is probably the best I have read recently

>>7654678
I havent read it, which is why I'm asking. Thank you for the post in your finely honed meme dialetic. I