History books recommendation thread /lit/? Just finished

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>>8395833
A proper indictment of Belgians everywhere.

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>>8395917
Also Wedgwood's 30 Years War

>>8395865

Hobsbawm is the only Marxist worth reading.

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>>8395920
Very fun history of pre-history with a time traveling narrative device. Very cool

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>>8395923
Good history of the cold war spy game from the russian perspective

Every time I try to read a history book that looks interesting it ends up having long sections devoted to how corn impacted the economy or something like that, and I get bored.

Call me a dummy who doesn't "get" history, but I don't care about that stuff. What are some history books that feel more like a narrative, that have focus on some larger-than-life personalities and great events and stuff?

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>>8395924
A classic

>>8395925
Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander. Modern history books almost always incorporate systemic analysis.

>>8395925
history channel

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>>8395925
Try John Julius Norwich's Byzantium books.

>>8395933
Even Arrian discusses Alexander's tribute extortion problems.

>>8395925
Tom Holland is pretty pop

>>8395941

This would be an accurate answer for dumb bro history if this were 20-30 (?) years ago.

Anyway thanks for the other reccs guys.

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Quite a good book about a little known situation.

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Are these any good?

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>>8395951
There has been some backlash since Foote is very sympathetic to the south (he grew up in vicksburg) but I love these

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Have always wanted to read this to get a view of the mindset of the southern views on slavery, has anyone read it? any good?