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I've vastly expanded my Book Depository wishlist due to this thread. In return I'd like to offer Peter Englund's The Beauty and the Sorrow. I found it to be a fantastic collage of personal experiences from the First World War. It is a little dramatised, and you won't find much in the way of insights into the grander social/political narrative, but it does provide a unique look into the lives of real people. I enjoyed it very much.
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Just ordered myself a copy of this: Pretty excited. Christopher Clark is pretty excellent (His book Iron Kingdom is really very good if you're interested in Prussia). Not to mention it's the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I this year.
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Kuiperdolin posted:The Crusades: statistically one of HITLER's ancestors probably fought in them or something Speaking of which, is there a go-to book for a narrative history of the First Crusade? I enjoy the writing style of Christopher Clark, Helen Castor and Tom Holland if that helps in any way.
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Charlie Mopps posted:Take a look at Thomas Asbridge's The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam or Jonathan Riley-Smith's The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading . Thanks! The first one was one I was already looking at, so I'll just go ahead and grab it.
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Apr 24, 2016 09:12
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Swagger Dagger posted:I read The First Total War in a college class on the French Revolution and enjoyed it quite a bit. I second this book. I read it in my second year of Uni and it was great!
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