Veeky Forums Book Thread: Greek Edition

Any books on castle architecture and design?

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What do you think of it?

i don't really, i'm considering buying it and wanted an opinion on it

here's a compilation of recommended reading lists I've seen so far in these threads (hope this link works)

imgur.com/a/rKUb8

yeah it works ty user

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heres stuff on crusader castles

Not bad. Is there a good one on the Third Reich specifically? The Fascism one is a little too broad.

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this older thread has nearly all the charts posted ever made if you want to add them to your imgur
desuarchive.org/his/thread/3720563/#3724003

Does anyone have any recommended books on Pre-History?

Thanks lad.

The Napole

How is Shirer's Rise and fall of the Third Reich?

i put evans and kershaw instead of him. both of them engage his work and quote him extensively, but they are of the opinion that his work is outdated and their ambition is to supersede his work with more updated scholarship from the late 20th century. i personally haven't read shirer myself.

Thank you I’ll try and add those later tonight

Thanks, lads.

Parents bought me this book for Christmas, is it any good?

Highly recommend George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter, especially if you want lots of examples of Willy's autism.

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I haven't read it, but after reading the reviews I want to.

this was a goldmine thanks a lot for linking that thread, I've uploaded them all into the updated imgur and tried to give them labels to help with navigating it:

imgur.com/a/rKUb8

wish I was as cool as bismark

Pic related is how you do it.

Generation Kill is sorely underrated

What are Veeky Forums thoughts on McLuhan? I read Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media. Is there any of his ideas that are wrong?

Would appreciate any recommendations on Ancient Iberian/Pre-Roman Spain history

>not including Mein Kampf
unironically critical for understanding Nazi thought

>the only book actually written by national socialists is Goebbels diaries, proven forgery
>Evans, Evans, Evans, Burleigh, Kershaw, Kershaw, Keegan, Noakes, Pridham, Kershaw, Tooze, Overy, Hayes, Wright, (((Weinberg))), Gellately, Gellately, (((Goldberg))), Proctor, Stephenson, Kershaw, (((Levi))), (((Baranowski)))
Pffffffff hahahahahahahahah

constitution.org/wj/meow.htm
Is there any more litterature like this ?
I know the author takes an anti-war stance but he says some interesting things about it and mentions books that take a militarist stance.
"Philosophie des Krieges, by S. R. Steinmetz" is one of them though i can't find an english translation for it.
Generally pro-war as a transcending force and unavoidable constant books would be appreciated.

the focus is on secondary sources. mein kampf is universally known anyway so to put it on there would have been redundant. by all accounts it's a shit book too.

the focus is secondary sources. you also forgot to mention stearn, longerich, sereny, homze, ulrich herbert, leitz, fritzshe, aycoberry, peukert, kater, wippermann, koonz, hake and 5 or so other german-sounding names listed on there

>Gitta Sereny was an Austrian-British biographer
>Robert Gerwarth is a British historian
etc
>you also forgot to mention
I didn't forget anything. I highlighted the outrageous majority of the authors being Anglos.

i count over 11 or more nonanglo authors, and about 13 anglo authors, excluding the jewish ones. that is balanced to me, especially considering that the list is for english readers.

Does anyone have a good source on economics of the US? I'm talking taxes, trade, spending budgets, tariffs, etc..

Also, are the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers the same no matter what version? I would like a fancy version for the bookshelf, but want accurate versions.

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Sgt Colbert is my favorite part that Alexander Skarsgard has done.

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Is there a reading list for the reading lists?

what about books about people in their finest/critical moments?
Brunelleschi's Dome is good, i'm planning to read Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling later.
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940-45

Do Veeky Forums recommends another books like this? Architectural & Engineering feats too.

Same user, i forgot Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, epic ride.

I have the Hitler book but I’m intimidated by its length. It is two abridged books after all.

reposting previous comment because i fucked the grammar
Just ordered these
>Hitler by Ian Kershaw
>A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
>1914-1918, The History of First World War by David Stevenson
What does Veeky Forums think of them?

Recommend me a book with a lot of nice pictures.

other recommended reading resources:

>4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Charts
>4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Literature_by_origin
>reddit.com/r/history/wiki/recommendedlist

>!xIYUzIgR
You don't actually need that suffix. I think it's the personal account code for whoever started copy/pasting.
mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ works perfectly fine.

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Hell of a record, I read it at 17 while I was going through a shitload of Bakunin and Kropotkin, probably around the time I read Shirer's Rise and Fall too.

Currently reading this. Pretty interesting and kinda surprising how cruel the spaniards were.

My question is....where they so unnecessarily cruel because it was just how all the countries where at that time?

or

Is it because the guys that went over to colonize and explore (very dangerous jobs) where ruffians, degenerates, thieves and thugs to begin with?

Their cruelty required only inconsideration. When you stop considering the interest of the opposition you can become cruel. Doesn't take a ruffian to do that.

From what I've read though, they went beyond inconsideration. Being inconsiderate or aloof of your actions is one thing. They almost seemed to enjoy it.

Hail.

This is how subhumans try to emulate the austerity and discipline of the superior peoples. You can see the exact same pattern with Ustaše, when the Croatian undermen enjoyed committing crimes after a model they have seen at Germans, and distorted it to fit their small Southern European brains and lowly culture in the meantime.

As you have pointed out, they went beyond inconsideration trying to copy the discipline of the superior Folks - German and English.

De las casas was writing a highly political work so take some of it with a grain of salt. Of couse its hard to deny that the Spaniards were cruel but casas had a political agenda in mind

and what agenda was that?

Its not hard to find out... from wiki:
>Arriving as one of the first European settlers in the Americas, he initially participated in, but eventually felt compelled to oppose the atrocities committed against the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. In 1515, he reformed his views, gave up his Indian slaves and encomienda, and advocated, before King Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, on behalf of rights for the natives. In his early writings, he advocated the use of African slaves instead of Natives in the West-Indian colonies; consequently, criticisms have been leveled at him as being partly responsible for the beginning of the Transatlantic slave trade. Later in life, he retracted those early views as he came to see all forms of slavery as equally wrong.
>Traveling back to Spain to recruit more missionaries, he continued lobbying for the abolition of the encomienda, gaining an important victory by the passing of the New Laws in 1542. He was appointed Bishop of Chiapas, but served only for a short time before he was forced to return to Spain because of resistance to the New Laws by the encomenderos, and conflicts with Spanish settlers because of his pro-Indian policies and activist religious stances. The remainder of his life was spent at the Spanish court where he held great influence over Indies-related issues. In 1550, he participated in the Valladolid debate in which Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda argued that the Indians were less than human and required Spanish masters in order to become civilized. Las Casas maintained that they were fully human and that forcefully subjugating them was unjustifiable.

He was a political advocate for indian rights so is it surprising he exaggerates atrocities against them for polemical effect? This is a guy who convinced Charles V, the most powerful man in Europe, to pass a set of laws protecting natives.

>feels remorse for his wrongs and attempts to record and rectify them
>"Lol, he's just an SJW stooge".
Alrighty then.

Wew, where did i say anything about sjws? I admired las casas actually. Im just arguing for a more nuanced picture of him. You know the proddies l, for example, used las casas to construct the “black legend” around spanish history? Theres a fine line to tread when thinking about his work. clearly perpetuates similar nonsense though hes probably trolling

>Elliot Rodgers
>My Twisted World

under western authors in the 8gb collection, well done

>tfw your post is ignored

Simon Schama's Citizens good or nah?

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Currently reading The Road Not Taken by Max Boot

>linking to reddit unironically

>A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn has a lot of fans on Reddit. /r/askhistorians is critical of it. This link may be an on-line edition.

Why am I not surprised?

I don't see the issue. People's History should be criticized. Harshly.

How accurate is this?

What are some good books on Nixon?

I'm not looking "liberal boogeyman" type stuff, just genuine look at what he did as President. Maybe some personal stuff too.

Any books on Viking history? 6th to 9th century.

Richard Nixon: The Life by John Farrell

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What are some good autobiographies?

Bismarck: the Man and the Statesman

>The Confessions by Saint Augustine
>Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger

Today I learned Bismark did some writing.

Junger is already on the list

Now that I think about it, Storm of Steel is a memoir.

Ian Smiths one is great

>anything Rhodesia
Now I have to read that.

>tfw they're all sold out and selling for $280 or more
Fucking WHY?!

I don't want some bullshit kindle/nook shit

youtube.com/watch?v=CZjFZjZBD78

Rhodesia...

What a time it was.

If Ian Smith rose from the grave and called for the formation of an army to liberate Rhodesia, I would join in a heartbeat.

Any of Adrian Goldsworthy’s works (Caesar, Augustus, Anthony and Cleopatra etc)
“Napoleon: a life”
American Lion
Theodore Rex Trilogy
Ron Chernow’s founding father bios
Suetonius’ imperial biographies
Stalin Court of the Red Tsar
Ian kershaw’s Hitler series

I enjoyed "Japanese Destroyer Captain" which is essentially an auto-biography.

AUTObiographies...

>Ron Chernow
He echoes. I'm not full /pol/, but I can admit that jews are subject to bending facts to their will and interests. I would need more information.

>Ian kershaw’s Hitler series

Speaking of these, how much am I missing if I read the single combined biography rather than the two separate volumes?

kek

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Panzer Leader

Hey Veeky Forums,
I bought The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire today as it was cheap. I'm aware it is outdated but I was wondering what other books are good for reading about Rome.

How long is the single bio?