ITT: your favorite book(s) about history >not sure if

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>>81478
>long story short people from CT and RI were fucking nuts back then

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not even kidding

>>81725
What is this about?

>>81478
I liked his Shadow of the Sword

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>>82110
How the law of gravity is oppressive to LGBTQAIPAC/DCCDDVDBLURAYCOMBOPACK+++ peoples, and how Isaac Newton was homophobic.

>>82110
its a /lit/ meme but he's a very famous author
he writes what could best be called historical metafiction. All of his serious novels (he occasionally writes shit ones for some reasons) usually blend the folklore, culture, and history of the period seamlessly. He's kind of a cross between cormac mccarthy, william burroughs, and a cryptic historian. Gravity's Rainbow is about a man who's ejaculations cause precise V2 strikes a few days later, but he also has a book called Mason & Dixon that I'd recommend if you like books about the new world, and what I think his best novel is, Against the Day, which is a fucking brick about the turn of the century and like all of his novels is too complicated and weird to explain

Is popular history accepted on /his/?

>>82913
Some people will shit on you but why not post it

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For pure page-turning entertainment value, probably pic related.

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>>81478
It's far better than Cums, Herms and Heels

I've got +400 books in my Goodreads, and read a tonne of history. Rarely give anything 5/5 stars. Here are the history books I have:

- A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
- The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
- The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America
- The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813 / Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Rubicon, also by Tom Holland. As much about the soul of the Republic, and the prevailing moods as the dates.

>>83304
Thanks for the recommendations

>- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
I've heard really great things about this one

>>82119
>if you know what I mean.jpg

What are the best books on Stalingrad? Beevor?

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>>81478
Very good book to read, does an excellent job portraying why so many of today's issues stemmed from the Paris Peace Conference. Also, since the author is a descendant of Lloyd George himself, she goes to great lengths to describe and elaborate upon the personalities of the people within the conference, almost to the point that you forget you're reading a nonfiction book.

>>82210
This is fucking great.

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>>86457
Read The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum if you haven't already.

>>81478
A heading like "the battle for the West" is not a good sign for a good history book . Especially for a time period where the term West would be anachronistic.

>>86539
I will! Thanks senpai

Where do you guys download your books from

>>86600
Thematically it fits because from a /his/ viewpoint Greece was the West, it was split from Persia.

If it had just become another Satrapy fuck knows what would have happened.

The failed invasion of Greece would go on to define how the Greeks saw themselves and start the gradual shift in power from Persia to Greece which then went onto inspire Rome.

Eventually this came to define what the "West" was.

>>86022
Read that one pretty recently. It's great.

>>>/lit/

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>you'll never boil your mother alive when you are 15

>>82110
The military industrial complex during WWII and how rockets keep falling wherever this one American gets an erection.

>>87147
Interesting