>what is Veeky Forums currently reading?
I saw an user mention this book a while back and it intrigued me since I know absolutely nothing about this area of the world during this time period (or colonial Britian/Russia). It's really been interesting so far.
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"In the service of the republic"
Czechoslovak secret agent that is also ocultist mage is trying to stop Hitler and Hungarian vampire that is supporting him, Memeberg von Ulanbatar is also ther as you can see. Iam on page 19 so
The previous post is my last purchase user. I just made it.
I'm buying Hopkirks's book due to a recent interest in Central Asia and Umberto Eco's recommendation. The reviews in amazon seem to describe a page turner. Are they right?
Compilation of articles from different academics. Pretty dense and interesting.
Yes. He has written it so it's fun to read while not being tedious. I planned on reading a chapter a night I'm currently on chapter 10 (got it 2 nights ago).
Imagine John Keegan's "Faces of Battle" applied to a Greco-Roman background. It's really good.
My Life, Autobiography Oswald Mosley
'The Great Game' is easily my favorite book on the subject. Hopkirk gives you the facts while weaving the tale like a story. For any of you guys out there who are seriously interested in the Great Game I implore you to read this book. Following 'The Great Game' I suggest you read an annotated verison of 'Kim' by Rudyard Kipling. It's historical fiction that brought mainstream knowledge of the Great Game in the early 20th century. There are many other books that I would suggest reading as well. The Great Game is a wide subject. Another good summarization of the Game comes in the book 'Tournament of Shadows' by Karl Meyer and Sharon Brysac.
Following these books, some nice supplementary books on the game would include the various first person accounts of travelers in the game, as well as some dramatized non fiction coming from in that time period or slightly after it. A few of my suggestions are Alexander Burnes' journals(translated by Hopkirk's wife) and Moorcroft's journals. Hopkirk has some other good books regarding the Game as well. 'Setting The East Ablaze' and 'Trespassers on the Roof of the World' are books with smaller scopes but are still very interesting. 'The Hero of Herat' details the defense of Herat by British Agent Eldred Pottinger. It is somewhat dramatized and is a third party account of what happened. Hopkirk's last book before he died was 'The Search For Kim'. If you loved Kim like I did then you'll find this book amazing. It essentially talks about the real life experiences that Rudyard drew upon to write the characters and events of Kim.
If you have any questions on the Great Game, I'd love to answer them. I did a thread about it once a long time back that garnered some attention.
Just to clarify, 'The Hero of Herat' is not a book by Hopkirk. It was written in the early 20th century.
>If you have any questions on the Great Game, I'd love to answer them. I did a thread about it once a long time back that garnered some attention.
good thread; I recall it. cheers for being one of the handful of decent posters here.
>tfw I will never be able to travel To Afghanistan without worrying about the taliban.
Not to be a dick, but use the catalog next time, we already have a thread with this exact title.
>the just finished The Greater Britain yesterday
Is mien kampf a meme?
In case you didn't already hate serbs, it turns out WW1 era legislation was one of the main contributing factors that turned American agriculture and cuisine in to a bunch of industrialized bulk farms turning food into processed packaged garbage comprised chiefly of corn syrup
Magicians of the gods
Did you like it?
Veeky Forums doesn't read
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I don't want to be a bummer but hasn't most of this guy's stuff been discredited? Do any other anons know more about it?
yeah I thought it was interesting. The fascist state that Mosley proposes is a lot more appealing than national socialism
I found it boring. He keeps whining about jews pretty much every page.
Re-reading this with the audio book. Thotsky is sounding more like he would've made Stalin look like Gandhi.
The slave state by Albert Speer, it talks about the movements and direct/indirect controls of the SS in the german industrial and economic sector.
Nice one but even the Chinese Gov after initially praising it dismissed it as fake
A friend of mine brought me this today, it talks about the last century most famous white mercenaries in Africa (I hope is not some white guilt propaganda but something actually well written) on the back it nominates a guy named Bob Denard someone know who he is ?
He's been thoroughly discredited, and I'm surprised anyone even took his first book (1421) seriously at all. I haven't read 1434, but if it's anything like the 1421, then get ready for:
>every out of place artifact must be due to this Chinese fleet
>stupidly over-romanticised orientalism
>convergent evolution wasn't possible and everything similar must be chinese influenced
>I literally have no idea what "terra incognita means"
>there's totally a conspiracy to suppress this and it can't possibly be that I'm full of shit
I don't even know how you are able to take such poor pictures.
The author won't fucking stop calling A*glos who live in Ireland "Irish", I hate planter revisionism
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It sucks being unable to go there, especially since Afghanistan held so much of the Great Game. I'd suggest the Central Asian nations(especially Khazakstan and Tajikistan), Pakistan, and India if you really want to go to some Great Game areas.
sounds dope, any english translations?
Just bought this, am I in for a treat?
it focuses mostly on culture, technology, and art. If you like military and politics, you'll probably find it boring.
this is dense at first but really picks up after the first third or so
Damn...
A shitty phone and a dark room are the secrets
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>The Private Heinrich Himmler: Letters of a Mass Murderer
shows pretty well nazis were basicly r9k, the beta uprising
if you see an angry bitter virgin, beat it down before it gets political power
Uzbekistan also, the khiva khanate was there.
Got all of Winston Churchills Histories of The English Peoples at a garage sale. Anyone read them? How are they, i havent really got into them yet.
I also ordered pic related. Heard its like a bunch of osprey books in one. I always like reference books like that so im excited.
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