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>>8924837
David Irving is one of my heroes. He's fucking based. Goes against political correctness like me.

Some stuff about our civil war.

>>8924837

I feel kind of bad for him. Yeah he's a horrible evil man I guess but he shouldn't be persecuted for his beliefs. He's a harmless crank. Other scholars and academics have said worse and come away completely unscathed.

Maybe I'm just "spooked" but it feels wrong to hound people so thoroughly for daring to have the wrong opinions on history, especially because we live in countries that pride themselves on "freedom of expression."

>>8924848

This. He's just a crank, and not even horrible or evil - and no one would care about him if he wasn't being constantly assaulted and silenced.

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>>8924848
>he's a horrible evil man

When did you take this pill instead of seeing the objective truth?

>>8924848
I agree. I always felt bad for Irving, from what I read about him.

I feel like it's exactly guys like Irving who end up correcting your own biases in surprising ways. Like by leaning enough in the direction opposite to you that it makes you thoroughly explore all possible ground between the two of you, in order to figure out EXACTLY where the truth really is.

In any event, Hitler's War is actually good scholarship. Probably considered mildly biased or credulous, but still mainstream.

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>>8924855

>history
>objective truth

>>8924837
>Blows through all the usual History Channel myths and suppositions
Like what? Share a few things, anon.

The last history book I read was one about the life of Vasco da Gama. Can't remember the name or author but it was well written and exciting for the layman. The seafaring bits were especially interesting for me, not having but the vaguest, romanticized idea about how that went. It turns out it was very dangerous, disgusting work and dying of scurvy is just about one of the worst ways to go that God designed for those who feel like meeting him before their time (also for those who feel like having teeth is a nuisance). The bits about the interactions of the first Portuguese explorers and the Indian natives are written like an adventure novel. I can't comment on the accuracy but it's an entertaining read so, if you're not the sort of guy who thinks that's a bad thing, you might enjoy this.

Any good books on the history of history?

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>>8924855

I had a HUGE mostly unrequited crush on this Jewish girl in college, and once you go Chosen you never go back ;)

>>8924858

Isn't that the whole point of free speech? If our thoughts and opinions are correct we should be able to win in an open debate. Suppressing people we disagree with is admitting defeat. I think we're making all the same mistakes all over again, it's like we didn't learn anything from the past 117 years.

>>8924837
>David Irving
Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahhahahahhahahahahahahah! Oh, op.. ahahhahahahahahaahah! Oh god, thought I had stopped laughing half way through that.

His older works were great but they progressively deteriorated, until he became a Leuchter hack.