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re: Recommend some good history books
Posted on 12/6/15 at 7:52 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 12/6/15 at 7:52 am to DavidTheGnome
Texas by James Mitchner if you're looking for an interesting historical novel.
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Posted on 12/6/15 at 9:45 am to Beantownbulldog
Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury. John Ransom's Andersonville Diary.
Posted on 12/6/15 at 9:49 am to DavidTheGnome
About to finish this one. Really good book.
Posted on 12/6/15 at 9:56 am to crimsonsaint
Swansong 1945
Posted on 12/6/15 at 11:31 am to DavidTheGnome
Founding Brothers
Posted on 12/6/15 at 11:32 am to DavidTheGnome
Peter Brown's The World of Late Antiquity
Most of the stuff recommended in this thread is pop history, not real history.
Most of the stuff recommended in this thread is pop history, not real history.
Posted on 12/6/15 at 11:41 am to Palo Gaucho
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Rebel Yell
Highly recommend Rebel Yell
Posted on 12/6/15 at 11:47 am to DavidTheGnome
The Wizards of Langley.
It's about the genesis of the CIA... Fantastic little stories about their first office near the reflecting pool, and ultimately moving out to Langely.
Very cool read.
It's about the genesis of the CIA... Fantastic little stories about their first office near the reflecting pool, and ultimately moving out to Langely.
Very cool read.
Posted on 12/6/15 at 12:42 pm to DavidTheGnome
Lincoln's autocrat
Biography of Edwin stanton
He was an interesting guy
Biography of Edwin stanton
He was an interesting guy
Posted on 12/6/15 at 12:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
Reagan's Revolution and Rendezvous with Destiny by Craig Shirley. Documents the 1976 and 1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaigns. He also has a third book about Reagan's post-Presidency that I haven't read yet.
Also December 1941 by Craig Shirley, documents what was happening in America during that month, the same month that Pearl Harbor was bombed. Interesting before and after contrast.
If you're interested in Louisiana politics, the 1991 John Maginnis book Cross to Bear about the 1991 Gubernatorial campaign is good.
There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher matters, on her premiership in Britain by Claire Berlinski.
Michael Jordan: The Life, by Roland Lazenby.
Also, it's not technically history, but My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas is very good.
Also December 1941 by Craig Shirley, documents what was happening in America during that month, the same month that Pearl Harbor was bombed. Interesting before and after contrast.
If you're interested in Louisiana politics, the 1991 John Maginnis book Cross to Bear about the 1991 Gubernatorial campaign is good.
There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher matters, on her premiership in Britain by Claire Berlinski.
Michael Jordan: The Life, by Roland Lazenby.
Also, it's not technically history, but My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas is very good.
This post was edited on 12/6/15 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 12/6/15 at 12:55 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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The Killing series by Bill O'Reilly has been excellent.
Someone gave me Killing Lincoln as a Christmas gift. I haven't read it yet because my book stack is pretty tall. But the Killing Reagan book has been shredded for historical inaccuracies by credible people like Shirley and George Will, so I'm inclined to throw the Killing Lincoln book I have in the trash.
Posted on 12/6/15 at 12:57 pm to maine82
D-Day by Ambrose
Pegesus Bridge by Ambrose
Young Men and Fire by McClean
Pegesus Bridge by Ambrose
Young Men and Fire by McClean
Posted on 12/6/15 at 12:58 pm to NC_Tigah
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Anything by David McCullough
I read the John Adams book, it was very good.
Posted on 12/7/15 at 9:31 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 12/7/15 at 9:34 am to DavidTheGnome
Lost to the West-smooth read on Byzantine Empire
How the West Won- Rodney Stark. An interesting, unapologetically non-PC presentation of western history
How the West Won- Rodney Stark. An interesting, unapologetically non-PC presentation of western history
Posted on 12/7/15 at 9:37 am to DavidTheGnome
Bloodlands.
It's essentially the story of the people that were quite literally trapped in between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany.
It's essentially the story of the people that were quite literally trapped in between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany.
Posted on 12/7/15 at 9:37 am to biglego
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, the last large scale surface ship battle.
Posted on 12/7/15 at 9:39 am to DavidTheGnome
Historical novels (fictionalized) that are outstanding:
The Ten Thousand - Michael Curtis Ford
Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressfield
Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
For pure historical books written by a master:
History of the English Speaking People - Winston Churchill
Blackhawk Down, Killing Pablo and Guests of the Ayatollah - all by Mark Bowden
Vietnam - Stanley Karnow
Hell in a Very Small Place - Bernard Fall
The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far - Cornelius Ryan
Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
The Civil War: A Narrative - Shelby Foote
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
The Ten Thousand - Michael Curtis Ford
Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressfield
Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
For pure historical books written by a master:
History of the English Speaking People - Winston Churchill
Blackhawk Down, Killing Pablo and Guests of the Ayatollah - all by Mark Bowden
Vietnam - Stanley Karnow
Hell in a Very Small Place - Bernard Fall
The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far - Cornelius Ryan
Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
The Civil War: A Narrative - Shelby Foote
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Posted on 12/7/15 at 9:51 am to Ace Midnight
I think I'm about to try Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare.
Should be very uplifting reading
Should be very uplifting reading
Posted on 12/7/15 at 9:55 am to DavidTheGnome
Try "The Whisperers" by Orlando Figes. It gives the most riveting interviews from people who lived in Stalin's Russia and how they coped in their private lives. It should be required reading on college campuses to see how the Russian people were brutalized by godless, tyrannical communists.
Say you lived in a modest 4 room apartment before the revolution. Afterwards, the government would move in 3 more families of peasants and if you were lucky you and your family got to keep a room. You could trust no one and if you said anything negative about the government, chances are your "room-mates" would turn you in. Thus, at night, alone in your bed with our wife or husband, was the only time you could "Whisper" about how you really felt about your life, job, government. Are current PC trends and college campus regulating "hate speech" headed this way?
Say you lived in a modest 4 room apartment before the revolution. Afterwards, the government would move in 3 more families of peasants and if you were lucky you and your family got to keep a room. You could trust no one and if you said anything negative about the government, chances are your "room-mates" would turn you in. Thus, at night, alone in your bed with our wife or husband, was the only time you could "Whisper" about how you really felt about your life, job, government. Are current PC trends and college campus regulating "hate speech" headed this way?
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