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What are the best books currently available in English about the Allied invasion of Sicily?
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Violet_Sky posted:Crossposting from the History podcast thread: It doesn't get all the way into wartime, but Peace and War by Nigel Jones is a pretty good overview of the state of British society immediately before World War 1
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Mar 9, 2022 16:51
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Kalman posted:(Which is dubious/a stretch/bullshit because, y’know, the CIA has shown itself to be so extremely good at keeping secrets over those 60 years.) This is the most tiresome argument. We know almost nothing about Operation Gladio, and most of what little did come out was because of an unrelated investigation into a bank in the 90s. Hell, we call the whole thing "Operation Gladio" even though we know there were different names for the operation in each country because Gladio is the only name we do know.
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Apr 26, 2022 18:54
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I know Dan Carlin isn't super respected in history circles, but I find his podcast entertaining enough. So when I saw a copy of his book for cheap I picked it up. Whoo boy it is rough. His style is entertaining in podcast form but he writes in basically the exact same style and in book form it's real bad. And his shortcomings as a historian stand out way worse.
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May 15, 2022 03:33
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History books that start each chapter with the author talking about how they went to a place and talked to a person who is vaguely related to the topic of the chapter should have a big warning label on the front so everyone can clearly see that they belong in the garbage.
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Jul 22, 2022 12:25
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yaffle posted:Is that what Hennessy does? I read it 15 years ago and only really remember enjoying it. I don't know, my post was unrelated to yours
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Jul 22, 2022 13:15
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Lawman 0 posted:This is a post about 1421 isn't it? The book that inspired it was Beloved Beasts by Michelle Nijhuis, but I've seen it before and it's always terrible. That gimmick works fine for a TV show, because you gotta have some kinda picture to put on the screen. But it's a book, I'm imagining all of it, I don't need to hear about your loving field trip.
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Aug 1, 2022 21:17
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Can anyone recommend a good book about Frederick II?
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Nov 19, 2022 20:13
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Tim Blanning’s biography. Wrong Frederick II
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Nov 19, 2022 21:24
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=255
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Dec 31, 2022 14:13
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I was at Barnes and Noble the other day and they had two big rear end hardcover books about Waco in the new releases section. Waco by Jeff Guin and Waco Rising by Kevin Cook Are either of those any good?
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Feb 18, 2023 02:45
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withak posted:As opposed to the "a person did this, then they did that, and so on" type of history? You have clearly never read any military logistical histories. Those things are extremely focused on when new shipping depots opened and how much tonnage of materiel could be moved through them, and how much that affected the overall tonnage reaching the front, and how much was being held back for the push on this island for a battle that ended up not happening, and so on.
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Feb 22, 2023 15:13
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:almost done with Eric Foner's book on Reconstruction. I am feeling rather devastated. an important read for those like me who had a [scene missing] gap in knowledge about the post-Civil War era, whether due to poor public education or me sleeping in class (both may be partly to blame). Not a book, but the 5-4 podcast is an extremely good overview of major SCOTUS cases. They mainly focus on 20th century cases but occasionally dip back further. I can also recommend Blessings of Liberty by Benedict. I know the title makes it sound like a jerkoff book, but it's actually a quite even handed overview of constitutional history. It's really good at showing how constitutional interpretation has shifted to respond to the politics of the day, from the early days when all the cases were about boring poo poo like building harbors and founding banks, to the Lochner era when the Reconsturction amendments were used to let corporations do whatever they want and the power of the contract was unimpeachable, to the hard fuckin swing in the Great Depression when they suddenly decided that actually minimum wage laws are legal and so on. It is a textbook though so it's stupid expensive.
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Apr 13, 2023 15:25
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What's the best single volume history of the Napoleonic wars?
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Apr 28, 2023 16:12
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https://twitter.com/saywhatagain/status/1653097062823518209?s=20
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May 4, 2023 17:31
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Are there any good books about the invasion of Grenada? I’m sure Osprey has put something out, god bless them, but I’m hoping for something that includes the political context.
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Sep 14, 2023 20:21
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When Montezuma Met Cortés is extremely good and built around contradicting the received wisdom about the Aztecs that most people in the US get through cultural osmosis so it's good for people who haven't really looked into the history before. And it's about stuff from before the United Snakes of AmeriKKKa was even invented
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Oct 5, 2023 04:08
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I'm reading this book called For the Soul of France because I wanted to know more about the Dreyfus Affair and I thought that's what it was about, it turns out it's not it's mainly a quick overview of post-1848 French political history and then a bit about the Dreyfus Affair. Goddamn. The bit of French 19th century history you get in America is usually just the Revolution and then Napoleon. But the whole 19th century was buck wild in France.
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Oct 23, 2023 05:26
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Is there a good single volume history of Israel, or failing that just the founding/early years of Israel? Preferably one that acknowledges the humanity of Palestinians, no Exodus-style blowjobs
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Oct 31, 2023 21:38
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Gaius please
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Oct 31, 2023 23:05
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I’m reading a book called Weimar Culture by Peter Gay, I’m pretty deep into it and not come across any discussion of queer people or culture in Weimar Germany, so I flip through the index and discover this book doesn’t even have so much as a single reference to Magnus Hirschfeld. This is flagrant fake advertising, I want a refund.
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Nov 17, 2023 01:05
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I started reading Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation and in the introduction they say that a big part of their thesis is that the problem was the US didn't intervene early or hard enough. I don't think I'm gonna vibe with this book.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:18
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I’m reading Six Frigates. It’s extremely good. I’m not going to let this turn me into a boat guy.
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Jan 5, 2024 02:43
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah. i was reading the war that ended peace a book i very much reccomend, and its mostly about the origins of ww1 and alot of the early stuff is basicaly just how willie wanted to have a bigger better navey then england and Dreadnought arms race was the nuclear build up of its day, and because of how ww1 was fought, it never happened outside one battle. This is why I refuse to become a boat guy. The first world war can be blamed directly on The Influence of Sea Power Upon History. And therefore all WW1's knockon effects, which includes WW2 and basically all bad things that happened in the 20th century are the fault of Alfred Thayer Mahan liking boats too much.
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Jan 5, 2024 17:46
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Six frigates owns so much. He talks about how the US government offered cash prizes to any American who could build some kind of contraption and successfully use it to blow up a British ship. After detailing the various Looney Tunes-esque adventures this spawned, it ends with just a fantastic sentence.
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Jan 8, 2024 03:54
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My copy of Only The Good Die Young shipped. Kinda takes some of the gloss off of Jacobin having them all printed and ready to go if they took a month to ship them.
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Jan 10, 2024 18:06
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FPyat posted:I read more than a hundred pages of a book about the Crimean War before it occurred to me that that conflict is eerily relevant to the present day. I've always wondered, what was the Crimean War?
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Feb 17, 2024 15:15
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