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sc0tty posted:Can anybody recommend a good introductory book to Ancient Egypt? I will be travelling to Egypt in a few months and would love to learn some more about the major places and people that I might encounter in the major museums, palaces and sight seeing. I'd second this request as well. I've heard good things about Wilkinson's The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt but I've been hesitant to jump in.
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KingBee18 posted:Orlando Figes " A Peoples tragedy: A history of the Russian revolution" is a fairly good read and comprehensive book outlining events from 1891 to 1924 (lenins death). Now he is extremely pretentious and sometimes the book jumps suddenly into a particular debate of academia, so its style changes. Mostly he uses alot of first hand sources to tell the story of the past for him, but these are not always fact checked and some of his assertions otherwise dont stand up. Hes a scummy author- caught rating other history books 1 star on amazon with bad reviews, but 5 stars and praise for his own! Overall however he presents a deep and fresh populist interpretation of the "communist" revolution which shook the world. Is there something else you would recommend that covers more or less the same subject and time frame?
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