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re: Most Interesting Historical Non-fiction?
Posted on 5/17/11 at 2:17 pm to keakdasneak
Posted on 5/17/11 at 2:17 pm to keakdasneak
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Timely suggestion: Rising Tide
Yep, timely and solid book.
Also:
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Posted on 5/17/11 at 2:24 pm to audodger
Hellhound on His Trail - about the manhunt to capture Martin L. King's assassin
Looming Tower - deals with the history of al-qaeda up until 9/11
Founding Brothers
1776
Legacy of Ashes - Hist of the CIA
Looming Tower - deals with the history of al-qaeda up until 9/11
Founding Brothers
1776
Legacy of Ashes - Hist of the CIA
Posted on 5/17/11 at 2:27 pm to Tiger JJ
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Can anyone suggest some good books on WWII and the Eastern Front? I've just finished a 4-part Dan Carline podcast on the Ostfront, and it really opened my eyes. It just is not taught in American schools hardly at all.
The Fall of Berlin 1945
About half way into the book but it spends a lot of time talking about the Russian advance from the east.
This post was edited on 5/17/11 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 5/17/11 at 2:28 pm to audodger
Jared Diamond is a good start. 
Posted on 5/17/11 at 2:55 pm to lashinala
DYNAMITE book!
Even better book.
It's something like 800 pages, but all the chapters are a couple of pages, so you can chew through it pretty quickly. Probably the best book I've ever read.
Posted on 5/17/11 at 4:48 pm to audodger
Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans by Winston Groom. This book gives an excellent back story to events that led to two men who hated each other to team up to fight the British.
Posted on 5/17/11 at 5:54 pm to audodger
Best book about the early Cold War - A Preponderance of Power by Leffler. Very thick.
Posted on 5/17/11 at 6:17 pm to audodger
Posted on 5/17/11 at 7:26 pm to audodger
Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens...both by Steve Coll.
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:17 pm to offshoreangler
Fatal Voyage: The sinking of the USS Indianapolis. By Dan Kurzman
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:21 pm to audodger
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:22 pm to audodger
I like this one:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
It's very broad based, but you may find some subjects in there that you want to read more in-depth.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
It's very broad based, but you may find some subjects in there that you want to read more in-depth.
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:29 pm to Tiger JJ
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Can anyone suggest some good books on WWII and the Eastern Front?
Any of Antony Beevor's books. D-Day, Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin, his works on the Spanish Civil war if you can find it.
Rick Atkinson's Day of Battle and An Army At Dawn.
Posted on 5/17/11 at 9:50 pm to offshoreangler
Gangs of new york
Gates of fire. Although it is a fiction book but that's only b/c the conversations and the names of the people can't be verified. It's about the last stand of the 300 and every history buff will recommend it if you want to know about the battle, the author tells it as real as possible.
Gates of fire. Although it is a fiction book but that's only b/c the conversations and the names of the people can't be verified. It's about the last stand of the 300 and every history buff will recommend it if you want to know about the battle, the author tells it as real as possible.
Posted on 5/18/11 at 7:21 am to Tiger JJ
quote:His podcasts are amazing.
I've just finished a 4-part Dan Carline podcast on the Ostfront, and it really opened my eyes. It just is not taught in American schools hardly at all
Posted on 5/18/11 at 7:41 am to fouldeliverer
Has anyone read, "The lost city of Z: Deadly Obsession in the Amazon"?
I have heard mixed reviews and not sure if I should give it a try. Anyone?
I have heard mixed reviews and not sure if I should give it a try. Anyone?
Posted on 5/18/11 at 8:01 am to jose canseco
Two ABSOLUTE MUST READ historical books...
1) The Bedford Boys..the book flies by and by then end it's as if you are among the boys that grew up together, joined up together, trained together.....and were eventually decimated together in the first 5 minutes of the Normandy Invasion...
It's.Awesome.
2) Other than the Shelby Foote Trilogy (which are about 1,000 pages per volume, this is THE Authorative narrative on the Civil War era. PERIOD.
1) The Bedford Boys..the book flies by and by then end it's as if you are among the boys that grew up together, joined up together, trained together.....and were eventually decimated together in the first 5 minutes of the Normandy Invasion...
It's.Awesome.
2) Other than the Shelby Foote Trilogy (which are about 1,000 pages per volume, this is THE Authorative narrative on the Civil War era. PERIOD.
This post was edited on 5/18/11 at 8:02 am
Posted on 5/18/11 at 8:36 am to Tiger Ryno
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge. About Pelilu and Okinawa battles in the Pacific. Really got the point across about just how bad those battles were.
Posted on 5/18/11 at 8:40 am to audodger
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Recently, I have become very interested in history, but know very little of it. I want to start reading historical non-fiction, but I don't know where to start. Any ideas?
MCF for the win!!
he's basically taking as much info from the actual historical events and constructing a narrative around them. pretty damn good stuff. i recoomend starting with 'the last king'
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