Can we please have another /hit/ /lit/ recommendation thread?

>>1682547
Is A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Churchill a good read?

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>>1682547
Currently on vacation in Greece and just started reading this.
Very interesting read, even more if you have the opportunity to visit some described sites in reallife right away!
Knossos is a joke btw, only fantasy park of an old Englishmen

I want a good book on Roman conquest, Crusades, or Medieval Ages.

Anyone have an suggestions?

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>>1682624
>Roman conquest

>>1682642
>>1682624
Start with de bello gallico, very clean and easy read for a book/journal written 2000 years ago.
>nevar forget the six gorillion dead Gauls/Germans

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>>1682624
This is the quintessential book on Roman Imperial conquest.

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>>1682642
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Writing all these down before I roll into Half Priced Books.

Anything on Crusades or neat Medieval shit? I've been looking around for a good Crusades book for a bit but it seems like everything I find is highly politicized.

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>>1682547
Sounds interesting very interesting.
Do you got anything on first spanish conquests in Americas? From Columbus to Incas maybe? Asked once and got some good source suggestions, but a second literature book like yours is a comfortabler read I think.

Any good resources on Roman Britain?

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>>1682732
It's a great book, Anon. Easy addicting read and lots of sources and extra notes.

You might want to also check out this one, too. Or another one by Buddy Levy about Orellana's expedition of the Amazon river. I forget the name, though.

>>1682732
I suggest you The Conquest of America by T.Todorov. It is full of citations from the diaries and documents of the time, and gives an interesting view of the Aztec society compared to the strategies of the conquistadors. Also, it talks about how the historians viewed the "Indios Problem". Really interesting in my opinion.

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>>1682797
Thanks anons!
Will check them out.

>>1682624
>Medieval Ages
A Distant Mirror. I'm reading it now and find it very informative and (if you like this sort of thing) fun.

>>1682797
+1 on Kim McQuarrie. Also read that, good stuff.

1491 (and 1493) should be reading for anyone interested in the Americans pre-Colombus.

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>still no Crusade recommendations
Fuck you nerds. I'm going to reddit.

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>>1682901
Riley-Smith is based

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I really enjoyed this. Found it extremely captivating.

>>1682642

Just started reading this. Same version. Reads very well for being 2000 years old.

I really liked My Struggle

Why is it so hard to find a biography of Joan of Arc that's actually a biography of Joan of Arc?

>>1682901
seconding this

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>>1682547

Everybody who has the slightest interest in WW2 should read this book.

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>>1683379

Say no more.

>>1683648
lol no thanks

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> for prussiaboos like me
Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark

Looking for a book on Assyrian/Persian/Babylonian history at the peak of their civilization. Ill probably go with Herodotus but if anyone has any more modern recommendations, Id be open to it. Im not looking to read an ~800 page book, just an intro of sorts.

>>1683794
just make sure you skip the last chapter, the book has a really shitty ending

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>>1683794
>better

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This book really put it into perspective for me how fucking miserable Stalingrad really was.

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>>1683770

The face of battle was also pretty good.

>>1682848
Seconding this, A Distant Mirror is one of those books that literally every medievalist scholar has on their shelf.

>>1683770
>>1684023
Having only read The Face Of Battle, I'll concur that Keegan is pretty good, but bear in mind he is very much the cliche of the old school proud biased British historian.

Plus he started that whole horses won't charge infantry formations shitfling.

>>1684009
His other book about the Battle of Berlin is hard to read at points because of misery

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If anyone wants to work on their French (or is a frog themselves), this guy is pretty great.
Remarkably unbiased, has a sense of humor that is evident through the linguistic mesh of a reader that learned French through duolingo and /int/, and pretty thorough as well. I'm a hundred pages into this 700 page book and I'm just getting out of the first decade of the period. Plus it's small and has lots of fun little maps and diagrams in the back of army formations at Crecy and such, and of course a beefy bibliography.

Bibliographies:

http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2

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>>1684909
If either of you are interested in more miserable battle books, check out E.B. Sledge's or Robert Leckies memoirs about their time in the Pacific. Sledge's especially paints really grim pictures for Peleliu and Okinawa.

>>1684009
nice, i just ordered this coincidentally

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Having done a quick Wikipedia on this guy, I see he was one of the first journalists on the scene in the Falklands and now I want to read his book about that war.

>>1684009
Mark reads this in Peep show and talks abit about in the series

>>1682848
>>1684897
I wouldn't really recommend this for somebody who doesn't already know a little about the 14th century.

The author tells a lot of half-truths and leaves out a lot of information to paint the same old tired MIDDLE AGES WERE A HORRIBLE HELL ON EARTH that's been proven false time and time again.

bamp?

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This one is great if you like Victorian-era politics. It features many great Willy moments, if you're into waggling at all.

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I heard this is good, I'm going to go buy it right now. Maybe grab that Stalingrad book if they have it.

>>1683807
Persian Fire

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>>1687495
that's a great book, possibly my favourite of all time.
Stalingrad is also fantastic, an utterly miserable read at times for obvious reasons, but that is part of why it is so great I guess

Anything wrong with "Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico" by Hugh Thomas? Just got it, I'll check out the other books in this thread

I'm think about getting Ernst Jungers storm of steel to help give me a perspective of soldiers fighting in WW1. Is this a good choice or is his book overrated?

>>1687530
No, it's a fine book.

Conquistador is just more popular because it's written better and more like a non-fiction adventure novel.

>>1684949
Are you supposed to download them and use some reader to make it more user friendly?

>>1683807
>>1687511
>>1687522

Excellent recommendation

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Anything on the overall theme of Sasanians against the Romans? I've already read and enjoyed The Two Eyes of Earth by Mathew Canepa, and I'm looking for a similar book but more centered around political narrative history. More "conventional" if you like to call it that.

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>>1682547
>>1682624
>>1682702

The Northern Crusades, by Erick Christiansen. Relatively short and simple yet very complete. A magnific introduction and in my opinion very easy to read.

For anyone interested in the Great Game, these are some of my favorite books about the subject:

The Great Game by Peter Hopkins - The classic book on the game. I highly recommend that you read it if you want to learn more about the subject. It is a bit dated as Soviet documents were not as open when it was written.

Tournament of Shadows by Meyer and Brysac - The same applies to the this book. This one is also a bit more updated and it goes past the traditional end of the game.

Trespassers on the Roof of the World by Peter Hopkirk - A book on the various attempts by Europeans to get to Lhasa. Okay, but not as great as the other 2. Its scope is quite a but smaller.

Journeys into Bokhara by Alexander Burnes - A firsthand account of Burnes travels up the Indus and then his subsequent journey through Kabul and Bokhara.

Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva by James Abbot - Abbot goes to Khiva, and then eventually St. Petersburg during a coming invasion.

A Ride to Khiva by Frederick Burnaby - Two years after Russia seizes Khiva in the 1870's, Burnaby journeys against the orders of his superiors to the city in which Europeans were banned from travelling to.

A lot Sir Francis Younghusband's work - He led the British expedition to Tibet in 1904 and wrote a ton of books on his various travels.

Kim by Rudyard Kipling - A fictional account of a young British boy indistinguishable from a native of the India. His various exploits lead to him getting caught in the web of the game. The book that made the Great Game popular. Get an annotated version, especially if you can't read Hindi or Urdu.

I've read a bit more on the subject though if you're even only superficially interested in it I highly suggest the first 2.

>>1685870
>half-truths

Can you elaborate? If I read the book, will I be reading false information?

Does anyone have recommendations on the rise of the USSR and the Russian revolution?

>>1682547
Yo what's the best CV Wedgewood?

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Too fucking late to this but I might as well recommend a book I read not too long ago:

Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It

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>>1682547
A must-read for every /mu/tant.

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>>1683807

>>1687618
Greatrex & Lieu - The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628
Dignas & Winter - Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals

>>1683379
bumping again for an actual Joan of Arc biography

>>1687535
It is a very good book. It's generally frowned upon in academia because it is pro-war and Junger is very upfront about his love of the conflict for his part in it, but it is still a good primary source.

>>1685870
>the author tells a lot of half-truths and leaves out a lot of information
such as?

I mean, her narrative is based on the life of one middle-ranking noble, with extra sources of course. So I don't think it's meant to be the single definitive source on reality of the era. Reading a book on WW2 wouldn't tell you that life was fairly calm and cozy in Argentina at the time, for example. That's the kind of healthy skepticism all readers should be taking, right?

>>1687770
"Ten Days that Shook the World" by John Reed

>>1688549
>It's generally frowned upon in academia

Really? I had a professor in uni that specifically made us read it to contrast with all quiet for an assignment .

>>1688203
Second this, read it while writing a paper some years ago

>>1687535
If you want more insight about the technical sides of infantry warfare during ww1 you should definetely read Erwin Rommels "Infanterie greift an". He fought at almost every front of the war and the book is featured with many of his own drawings and first and accounts of the battles. It also helps to overcome the static trench war meme that still seems very common.

>>1688909
Your professor is an exception.

>>1687953
I don't how I feel about black metal. Like, it's really good music, but you will probably go to hell if you listen to it.

>>1689253
I feel the opposite, being a fedora-tipper not much worried about such things, and find black metal both pretty inferior music and pretty cringe. I guess if you like, just go ahead and like it.

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>>1682547

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This book is absolutely precious

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ALSO.
Don't forget that the best resource for finding books is
gen.lib.rus.ec

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>>1682547

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>>1682573
I dunno, I got a copy at a garage sale but haven't read it yet.

>>1682547
Right now I'm reading Caldwell's Small Wars, seems pretty good so far. Pic related was also good.

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>>1690321

>>1682642
>tfw you have a 87-101 year old version of De Bello Gallico.

Feels pretty corny pals.

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I'm reading through Phillip the Bold right now. This series is awesome so far and I think anyone who has any interest in the High Middle Ages should learn about Burgundy.

>>1690321
Are you going to just clickbait us like a cunt, or throw us a bone here?

>>1687495
I loved that book. Orwell is very readable and he has a charming dry wit that catches you off guard at times. I definitely recommend it.

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>>1682547

>"check out these dumb assholes fighting their idiot war, let's take a closer look"

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>>1682547

fucking hell this was upsetting, great though

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>>1682547

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>>1682547

this was pretty interesting for a brief kind of storybook account of the Shinsengumi

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Just got done reading this, reads pretty quickly even though it's long

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This is a great book about the lead up to World War I and very well done. Really gets into the motivations of the heads of states at the time.

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Good book on the history of the papacy. Only gets to Bendict XVI

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Great book on the Korean War. Written by the same guy who wrote The Best and the Brightest.

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Good book by someone who was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power.

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If anyone is interested in historical fiction i'd highly recommend the surgeon's stories. It starts in the 30 years war and continues up to the napoleonic wars.

I have to admit I have only read the first one but i'll also post the intro monologue because it's just so good.

>>1684936
How good is duolingo if I want to learn french?

Any Historiography recommendations?

>>1694977
okay i wanted to take it from the book but there's no version to copy from so it's basically this if you replace the word listener with reader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY81Gxl16H4

>>1695003
In Defense of History is my general go-to

Any good books on nip history?

>>1690579
That looks rad. How long is each book and how much did they cost you? Are they a good introduction if your knowledge of Burgundy is limited to general knowledge and the wiki?

>>1695183
The first two books are about 250 and the second two are about 450. In total they cost me $50 or so because I got some used on Amazon.

I came into this only knowing about Charles the Bold and a vague overall understanding of 14th century Europe and it's been fine.

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>>1682547

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>>1688203
>Greatrex & Lieu - The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628

It's apparently part 2. Is there an actual part 1 that is also a narrative history? I recently got "The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363" by Dodgeon and Lieu, but it's a documentary history, basically a compilation of primary sources.

Are there any books, that help me getting into european fine arts?

>>1682624
Georges Duby and Le Goff, but you'd prob need to pirate or order them
>>1682848
>>1684897
probably not the best work to start with

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>>1682547
Reading this right now, after having a hard time finding anything good on the Taiping in English.

>>1694609
this is widely discredited by historians. evans' history of the third reich #1-3 is a better choice if you're interested

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Try to find a better WW2 memoir.
>protip: you can't

>>1682788
Apparently Roman Britain is hard to write about, because we hardly know anything about it. Not much survived.

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>>1696177
I always thought it was good to read it from the perspective of someone who was there while it was happening. However, Ian Kershaw is the best if you want to get how the Third Reich worked.

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>>1682901

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>>1683253
Don't cut yourself on that edge

>>1694991
It's alright, but bear in mind it can't be done by itself, and you absolutely need someone to speak to if you want to actually speak French.

I did it for about a year in conjunction with french subtitles, books and /fr/ lurking, yet I didn't really speak it at all so my reading ability is pretty good but I could at best clumsily order food when I actually went to France.

>>1693928
But he was one of the generals in said idiot war.

Anybody have any recommendations on India?

>>1696318
I have a book about it but I haven't read it yet.

>>1696344
Do you know if it has decent reviews and what time period is it?

>>1696318
Full Mahabharata. I read the Bhagavad-Gita first, it was a good philosophy book but lacks the fun stories of FLYING CHARIOTS SHOOTING MOTHERFUCKING MAGIC NUKES and Karna being best boy.

>>1696318
John Keye's History of India

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>>1685308
>Mark comparing every life situation he has to some aspect of WWII

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this one has great analysis and a lot of data that other authors might not get to

this is the most complete account of the forces behind the English diaspora, be warned both this and the above are college level so their not narrative histories their academic studies with a ton of numbers and detailed analysis of every minor point

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>>1696414
somehow i forgot the image

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Great book on the Civil War. Goes really in depth of what the US was like at the time before the Civil War. Super long, but very well researched and detailed.

>>1695172
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>>1688203
This is a good book.

Any recommendations for Alexander the great, his military campaigns, and the successor kingdoms? I also would like something on the German tribes at the time of the Roman Empire (Roman authors need not apply).

>>1696372
'history'

I want to read about Roman history, where should I start?

Requesting a good read on Doggerland.

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>>1698073
Here you go

>>1698073
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>>1696132
The Devil Soldier by Caleb Carr comes to mind. The story of an American sailor turned mercenary who led the Ever Victorious Army.

I know literally nothing about chinese history.
I'll read over wikipedia, then is there a good book to introduce it to me overall?

Any good books about the bronze age and bronze age collapse?

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>>1698624
>>1698073
Got any recommendations that are lighter than Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire? (I'm not the same guy.) Also, here's a flow chart.

>>1687522
>>1687511
>Troll.
>>1687604
Hanson and him are shit.

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>>1696415
>>1696414

>>1700009
Had to read that for a World History class in college. Actually pretty good, though I think the author attributes a little too much of the modern world to Khan. Starts getting into butterfly effects and shit.

>>1700009
Meme tier.

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>>1696231
This is volume one, these two combine make the best bio on Hitler and the Third Reich.

Anybody really have anything on precolonial Africa?

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>>1700009
Take everything in this book with a large amount of salt since the author is an anthropologist specializing in Native Americans, rather than someone with any background in Mongol studies.

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Is this good /his/?

>>1700355
It's not a history book, but a fictional story set in in an undetermined imperial nowhere land, likely Africa.

I've read it, albeit years ago on a Coetzee bender. It's good, though a little grim I guess, but I'm not sure what you're expecting from it. IIRC, it revolves around unspecific colonial troops defending some frontier shit hole they don't care about and how they treat and view natives (the barbarians), with torture and killing with impunity.

Spoiler alert: the 'barbarians' never come.

>>1701200
I appreciate the insight.

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Read this recently and it's a fantastic and very comprehensive look at Napoleon's entire life, although it is very much pro-bony.

Highlights include excerpts from letters and essays written by Napoleon in his edgy teenage years about killing himself, and Napoleon nearly converting to Islam to get the residents of Cairo to like him.

>>1700320

Is this good? Always wanted to read more on HRE and medieval Germany.

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>>1682624
Start with the earliest most influential of a stepping stone for Rome's future general's. Without maintaining the biased pro Roman perspective, read up on Hannibal's brilliance also.

for WW2 propaganda books, read The Ministry of Illusion and From Calagri to Hitler.

What could anyone recommend on:
Fall of Rome
Migration period
Early germano-roman kingdoms
Franks, Merovingians & Co
Frankish Empire
The period from Charlemagne to Otto I
Early Holy Roman Empire
Communes

any suggestion welcome

>>1687953
The interviews in this book are Literally made up, according to several of the supposed interviewees. Fuck off
>>1689253
Youre a pussy

>>1701276
thanks desu

Any suggestion for the Austrio-Hungarian Empire?
Thanks.

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>>1701356
'Huns, Vandals and the Fall of the Roman Empire' by Thomas Hodgkin. Great expansive work in the era that's wonderfully ethnographic and contains some great maps.

>>1701907
>'Huns, Vandals and the Fall of the Roman Empire' by Thomas Hodgkin. Great expansive work in the era that's wonderfully ethnographic and contains some great maps.

This sounds EXACTLY like the kind of thing I'm looking for
Thanks a lot anon

Can someone recommend a good book about the Habsburg Monarchy? I'm not so interested in the dynastic aspect, more into economic and environmental history (long shot I know). Thanks.

>>1701914
No problem. It's well written and a great read. Reading it is one of the things that really got me into history!

>>1682642
Just ordered it because of you, thanks :D

>>1682573
His style can be overbearing and patronising.

>>1701928
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/incest

Any recommendations about the Russian empire ?

Can anyone recommend a book on rhodesia that doesnt devolve into the authors opinions and shit-flinging

>>1682547
kropotkin, the conquest of bread

>>1682547
>((Levy))

>>1701327
If you are ok with a history book arranged by topical content and a flood of names without context, it is good.

>>1703695

Thanks. Just got an epub version and I'll check it out.

>tfw already finished a book recommend to me in this thread and it's still up
Somebody give me something about Franks, Germanic tribes, HRE, or feudal Japan. Preferably with good writing.

>>1701928
Judson wrote a positive book about the Habsburg Empire recently - might be worth investigating.

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Good short book on the Civil War. Less than 280 pages on it.

>>1701200
Wait so it's just a rehash of the desert of the tartars?

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Any good historical comics/manga?

I know picrelated has fictionalized elements but there's a lot of true history in it as well and it's an interesting look at late Victorian society

>>1707008
Some inspiration perhaps, but not really. Coetzee's version does not glorify war or colonialism in any way -- quite the opposite.

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How is this not on here yet?

Any good books on Franco-Prussian War?

>>1707589
Because it's a shit book

>>1707775
how so

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Anyone have any good books on East Germany?
Would also like one on the Weimar republic and the early Soviet Union.

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>>1707750
Either pic related or The Franco prussian war by Geoffrey Wawro are pretty good.

>>1707796
Thank you

Also, i second this
>>1707792

>>1707778
It's literally babbies first WWI book. People have posted better books in the thread already.

>>1707778
It's a good entry point for WWI, not a bad book, but if you want to get a better overview I'd recommend The first world war by John Keegan, most of the books by Hew Strachan. Maybe Dreadnought and castles of steel by Robert K. Massie for some if you're interested in the naval aspect of the war.

>>1707775
>>1707859
I actually didn't know that; I'll look into those other ones for sure

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>>1704710
pls

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I've been reading a lot of historical nonfiction over the past year, it's such a great genre, here are some I really enjoyed

Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887-1941, David Evans and Mark Peattie

Comprehensive coverage of Japanese naval history from around the Battle of Tsushima all the way to the start of WW2. It also goes into detail about the naval air arm, Chinese conflict, and internal military politics, definitely recommended for anyone interested in Imperial Japan.

Revolutionary Russia, Orlando Figes

General history of Soviet Union. Provides a good overview and excellently written but you should find specialised literature for individual events.

And now Robert Massie, who is an amazing writer and has produced some outstanding books:

Peter the Great

Biography of the above, usually thought of as one of Russia's greatest Tsars. His campaigns against Carolus Rex in the Great Northern War are particularly interesting.

Catherine the Great

Biography of the above and how she went from being a shit-tier German noble to the most powerful womyn in the world. Also highly recommended.

Castles of Steel

I feel like this is the same book as this
>>1687441
but I have some other international version. No more Russian politics, this is about the rivalry between the British and German navies and the build up to war, and then extensive coverage on the Battles of Coronel, Heligoland Bight, and Jutland, so on. I guess I have a thing for naval warfare but this is good for general WW1 history too.

Bitter Harvest, Ian Smith

I've been interested in Rhodesia for a long time but I know it's divisive here, I agree with /pol/ that the entire thing was a preventable tragedy but not much else. This is Ian Smith's autobiography about his life but mostly his tenure as PM once his country unilaterally declared independence. Gives good insight into how the entire western world royally fucked them, gradually tightening the noose.

>>1694561
Any good? I keep seeing these in book stores.

The War of Wars, Robert Harvey

Excellent companion to this
>>1701276. History of the Napoleonic Wars and their individual campaigns.

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Tony Judt

Self evident, but really well written for such a massively busy era, with so much to cover. Out of all the books I've posted you should read this one if you don't have much time. Covers most of Europe's governments and their evolution over time, cold war issues, the rise of the EU, homegrown terrorism, economics, very general.

The Great Influenza, John Barry

Documenting the time humanity nearly got btfo by a dead pig a Kansas army chef served for dinner in January 1918. That pig eventually managed to kill 100 million people in revenge, good for him, the absolute madman

Ghost Wars, Steve Coll

An account of all the regimes the the American government has overthrown in the past 50 years, but focuses on the operations against Soviet Afghanistan the the repercussions up to 9/11

This Kind of War, T. R. Fehrenbach

Military history of the Korean War.

>>1707792
Stasi by John Koeler

>>1706256
Thank you, looks promising.

>>1701907

Looks interesting. Where can I get a pdf copy of it?

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>>1698073

Currently reading this. It's a well written narrative history of Rome to the end of the Republic. Sulla, Pompei, Cicero, Ceasar, Lucullus and others are well covered.

>>1707778

I've read that although it nicely sets up the the tensions between various countries it rushes over the events between the Archduke's assassination and the ultimatum sent to Serbia. For a book that's concerned about the causal factors of the war, it's not a very good book.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R18CL9FGSXHKZ0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewpnt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00IB43Q6C#R18CL9FGSXHKZ0

Apart from the works of Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Morgenthau, what are some core classical realist texts?

Does the Legend of Till Eulenspiegel count as /his/-/lit/?

>>1710542
>Tom Holland
hahahahahahahahahahaha LMFAO
get a load of this fuckin guy
>well written
hahahahahaha f.am can you believe this fuckin rube hahahahahaha

PLEASE GIB COLD WAR BOOKS, ESPECIALLY IF RELATED TO CIA, AIR FORCE COMBAT, ESPIONAGE, SOUTH AMERICA OR THE NIDDLE EAST

>>1710793
this

>>1707792

A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes is very well regarded as both a readable and comprehensive look at the early Soviet Union, although it is pretty massive.

>>1710768
Found the Muslim.

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>>1710758
>Till Eulenspiegel
Are you German? Where do you live?

Anyone got any recommendations for books on US Modern Foreign Policy? Maybe 1960-Present?
Really interested in the Gulf War, Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as Vietnam.

>>1711828
Ghost Wars

>>1711828
The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic
America's Longest War
The Pentagon Papers Abridged
Inevitable Revolutions

These all cover US foreign policy, most cover Latin America but the others cover Vietnam.

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>>1707132
"che" by breccia. it's about guevara.
there's a comic about the paris commune by that french comic artist. The one where the eyes are almost nothing more than dots.
He also did one for WW1. Later a semi-related film came out as well, intro cut of a dead horse in a tree is the only thing I remember about it. Really can't find the name right now... Nvm, it's this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tardi Has quite a few historical things.
Obviously Maus by Spiegelmann
persepolis you could call historic.
Joe Sacco's comic journalism is kind of historic. Good anyway.

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>>1712091
Le Cri du Peuple is the one about the paris commune.

>>1708834
Check out the looming tower

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Has anybody read this? Is it any good?

>>1711785
I'm Russian. I ended up reading that book when I was like 13 when I was at my grandparents' place with nothing else to do, couldn't exactly find one definite way to spell it so I rolled with that one.

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Any recommendations similar to 'Life in a Medieval City'? Historical scene setting sort of books?

>>1713000
OK, interesting. The character is from the medieval era, so it spread around a bit, but the tradition seems to be 'strongest' in the part of Germany I live in. It's more for kids nowadays though.

Napoleon by Frank mclynn is a great bio and covers a great amount of the wars & battles literally only negative I've ever seen about the book is that he tries to psychoanalyze Napoleon too much.

Popol Vuh, the Mayan mythology book. Obviously not historical but shows how fucking crazy those guys were.

I'm personally interested in trying to find a book on Russian history from around 1850-1917

>>1713712
In that book he's Flemish for some reason and it takes place during the Reformation.

>>1711828
No Good men among the Living.

Mullah cable just wanted to be a phone repairman. ;(

>>1713741
>I'm personally interested in trying to find a book on Russian history from around 1850-1917
I have a social history, one of if not the first ever written in modern standard. Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia. It covers what it says on the tin.

>>1713199
Life in a Medieval Barony. It's on Gutenberg. It's a little weird, in that it explains everything about castle and city life in the middle ages but following a fictional family in a fictional Western European country. It's also really old, so some things are outdated, but it's a pleasurable read and you'll learn some interesting things.

bump
Still need som recommendations om
- Alexander the Great and his campaigns
- Doggerland
- German tribes during Roman era
- Trade in Europe (prehistory-1800)

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Does anyone have any recommendations about cossaks?

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Looking for a good youtube series on ancient civillizations/empires, just about rise and fall, religion and wartime type stuff, I'm just not as knowledgeable as I'd like to be on the subject. It has always interested me but I don't really wanna jump into a bunch of academia on the subject, book recs would be accepted too.

Video related is what made me interested in this recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymI5Uv5cGU4&list=FLtgha2yZrzxp7cg4_Zo35Uw&index=1

>>1682583
Seconded.

>>1682547
Anyone have recommendations on South Asia or the Cold War?

Also, this one is very specific, but Indo-European cultures in general, particularly ancient/prehistoric groups, can be anthropologically or linguistically focused.

>>1696249
Incredibly good book. Loved everything about it.

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>>1696132
Good book, but it really does not cover the crucial early formative years of the rebellion and give a good answer into why this all came into being. I'd recommend "The Taiping Revolutionary Movement" by Jen Yu-wen if you want to go deeper into that topic. Pretty much the definitive work on the Taiping Rebellion and has a near encyclopedic scope to it. Downside: very expensive and you should probably read at least one book on the Taiping Rebellion before you tackle it.

I just finished reading all three volumes of pic related. It is a monumental(2000+ pages), ultra thick read that is so very badly edited(page long paragraphs galore) but my god the depth of information in these books are nothing short of jaw dropping. From a Amazon review:

"Albertini was an influential Italian newspaper editor and senator until ousted by Mussolini. He observed events in 1914 as a political insider, knew many of the protagonists, and was able to interview a number of them after the war. He had another advantage: by the time he completed the book, the diplomatic papers of each of the combatants had been published in their entirety, the memoirs had been written, the charges and counter-charges issued and disputed, etc. There is naturally more coverage of the Italian role in the crisis than in other studies, but the book is so well written (in Isabella Massey's splendid translation) that even readers not interested in Italy's response to its allies' machinations are likely to find these chapters engrossing."

If you are a serious WWI buff or history buff, you really should at this book. Note: do NOT make this your first book on the origins of WWI, read at least two or three others on it, and have a good understanding of late 19th/early 20th century politics and events. Honestly can't say enough good things about this book senpai

I'm trying to learn more about the late 15th C in western Europe (Specifically Burgundy, Switzerland and HRE). I'm thinking about starting with Richard Vaughan's books on the Valois dukes of Burgundy, but what else is there? Anything modern?

>>1710793
The Way of the Knife

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>>1682547

>>1716630
>recommendations about cossaks?
Don't trust them. And they never forget.

>>1716650
Try reading a book, ignoramus.

Anybody have anything good on reconstruction?

I need books about europeans' colonialist and "racist" views of China and Japan during the early 20th century and more specifically the 1920's up until 1932
Also need books about how westerners and japanese used to live in concessions
Any good books you guys would recommend me?

>>1682642
read this book like 3 times. there's one with napoleon bonaparte notes at the end of each chapter making a critique of caesars actions, its awesome

>>1684009
this book had a huge effect on me. Awesome suggestion.

Could anyone recommend me anything good on the Eastern Front of WWI, the Korean War, or the Balkan front in WWI?

>>1720137
>Also need books about how westerners and japanese used to live in concessions
The Great Game and the Boxer War in China by David Silbey actually has entire chapters regarding life in the legation cities before, during, and immediately after the Boxer Rebellion. Obviously, it's not the focus of the book, but interesting nonetheless.

>>1720137
Oh and regarding views of the Chinese, while not the period you want, The Devil's Handwriting has a chapter on German views of the Chinese before and after they colonized Qingdao.

>>1697641
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox is a great monograph on the big man
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Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield is a great quick read for the Wars of the Diadochi

Highly recommend them both

>>1720917
Well that's what I get for being lazy on my phone.

Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire

>>1682547
Thanks for starting this thread senpai. Just added Conquistador to my Booko wishlist.

>>1708758
Going to second Revolutionary Russia by Orlando Figes

>>1694609
DO NOT READ THIS PIECE OF TRASH!

>>1700308
Gavin Menzies meme tier? Thomas Cahill meme tier? Jared Diamond meme tier?

>>1720627
I prefer No One Left To Lie To by Christopher Hitchens. While it mightn't really qualify as a perfectly historical text it is a beautifully written beatdown of Bill Clinton and his legacy.

>>1720605
>>1720601
Thanks,really appriecate it

>>1716655
Can someone fucking (You) this?

>>1721841
no

Can I get some recommendations on the sengoku period? I hear a lot of crazy stuff about it, like Takeda Shingen fighting off Kenshin with a fan. Anything about those two, or Nobunaga would be good.

>>1716655
On (proto) Indo-Europeans I suggest "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language" by David W.Anthony.

Does anyone have any recommendations on books about the Roman Kingdom and/or Rome at its genesis/very early stages? Only book I know of is the one by Livy but I'm looking for something a bit more modern.

>>1721920
Thank you, but I have read that the second section of this book is a tenuously related and very dense account of Russian archeological surveys. Is it still worth getting, even if only for the first section, which has a direct focus on the Indo-Europeans? Is the second not so bad after all?

>>1721961
In all honesty, I have skipped many of those, as you say, dense archaelogical accounts and still got a lot from the book and managed to follow the narrative easily. So, I'd still recommend it; try it - it's on gen lib rus ec. Have you read Mallory's In search of the Indo-Europeans? The argument is similar as in The Horse etc. but he is more readable when it comes to the more "technical" stuff, although he might be a bit poetic at times.

>>1722002
I haven't read much of anything, and will give Mallory a shot if he isn't too dated. Thank you.

>>1699526
Have a similar flowchart for the Middles Ages or the Renaissance/Early Modern Era?

>>1722244
Nope, I haven't seen one around either.

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>when the Chinese take the convoy and start covering the wounded with white phosphorus, and the narrative breaks up into how each of the survivors made it out
>the dude who lost his hands, got shot multiple times, and realized the Chinese wanted him to escape as a living example of what happened i the valley
Most disturbing account of any US battle to ever exist.

>>1696199
Truth.

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>>1682547

>>1694609
>>1696177
What's wrong with it?

>>1720341
what version is this? the penguin?

>>1721891
>>1695172
>>1704710
bump for recommendations folded 100,000 times

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>>1710793
This is very good. It's an assassination book, but its quest to find the ethical reasons for it leads it into some valuable analysis of the Cold War, militarism, and Kennedy's relationship with Khruschev in particular.

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>>1717348
similar

>>1710793
>ESPECIALLY IF RELATED TO CIA
The Pentagon Papers Abridged is right up your fucking alley.

>>1725716
>an american life
>only american for 14 years

hmmm

>>1726146
Really gets your noggin joggin

>>1726146
>he treats states and cultures like theyre the same

Pls don't die

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Franz Schmidt is an interesting read.

>>1700320
I love this book. It and Danubia are wonderful.

I'm on an HRE kick.

Any good books on late 19th/early 20th century Russia? 1880ish-1917, 1905 Revolution and the fall of the Tsars pre-1917

>>1703355
Mukiwa by Peter Godwin

it's a memoir and he's pretty left wing but it still paints a decent picture of life in Rhodesia

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English civil war, anyone got any recommended reading on that one?

Already got all the Osprey books about it so the uniforms and such reference material is already covered

>>1730124
I'm not him but am also interested in Rhodesia and would prefer a historical account rather than memoir; I am not daunted by leftist authors and even prefer them.

I saw "Rhodesians Never Die" but it is quite pricey; does anyone know if anything superior, maybe cheaper as well?

>>1716655
Bumping for Cold War lit

Anyone got a good book on early modern Swiss history? It seems really interesting

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>>1682702

Any good books on Carthage?

>>1696299
This sounds based as fuck. Tell me about it.

>>1687535

No finer first hand account of the first world war exists. It is presented as is and eloquently at that. Just finished it and would definitely recommend.

>>1732913
See >>1725536

>>1682547
Does anyone have any recommendations for anything related to the Scythians, Hittites, or other ancient Anatolian peoples?

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Great war biography

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Absolutely cracking read, history at it's best right here

Excellent use of detailed military history, a coherent narrative as well as having some great little anecdotes.

I recommend this even for readers who aren't necessarily interested in Soviet or Central-Asian history, it's that good

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>>1737757

>>1736962
I'm looking for something with a broader scope; Vietnam was only a proxy theater for the Cold War. The book can include it, certainly, even expound on it at great depth, but I would prefer if it covered the entire Cold War more generally.