Hey Veeky Forums can we get a history book thread.
Please post and recommend some god tier history books.
Pic related, is a very good and informative book.
I can also recommend the following books:
Crown and country - David Starkey (This is about the English monarchy and although it isn't the most detailed it is very informative.
The Romanovs - Siomon Sebag Montefiore (Very good and detailed, left me wanting more)
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I'm trying to read pic related in Op's post.
I really can't get through it. Not EVERY fucking detail is important. I'm often confounded as to exactly what the hell the book is even talking about, because it loses it's narrative about 50 times a page in tangents and digressions.
The chapter titles are kind of funny, because I read the chapter and go back and look at the title and think, "Wait....did they talk about that AT FUCKING ALL in this goddamn mess of words?"
try something more redpilled, retard
There already is a thread look at the catalog please
Just started pic related and its really good so far. I plan on reading OPs book eventually as well, glad to hear that its good from someone with similar taste. If you like that and The Romanovs, try Iron Kingdom by Chris Clark.
I'm a pleb, I was gonna read Ian Morris, but haven't done so yet. I highly enjoyed Charles Mann series on the New World, as well as Peter Turchin, and I admire the latter for trying to make history more scientific. Turchin is ridiculed and some don't take him serious, but at least he provides a testable model.
Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies was interesting though I didn't care for some of the details.
I've read a few other books, some in my native language, all of which I don't feel like sharing.
I think I will give it a go, I really want another history book that I can commit myself to.
The Romanovs was fantastically written in my opinion
a savage war of peace, algeria 1954-1962.
modern ireland 1600-1972.
ian kershaw is a colossus in modern german history. "the hitler myth" as well as his biographies on hitler are essential for an understanding of german history.
orlando figes' a people's tragedy is excellent.
my only real tip is to stay away from outdated and polemical works of history. guns, germs, and steel; people's history of the us; these works either try to demolish existing interpretations (badly), apply a "radical" interpretation of history which is nearly always leftist (sometimes reactionary and far-right), or they fail to reach any sort of detail because they are "pop history" and are necessarily shallow.
history ALWAYS CHANGES: e.g. gibbon is good but don't read him until you are able to place him in comparison to our current understanding of the fall of rome and the historiography that has followed him and his times.
the above are some strong intros to history. read bibliographies and think about what you are going to read first.
There's nothing wrong with a view on history having a certain political slant imo. I'm more concerned about whether or not the author is a real historian, or whether they actually make good use of research and citations. The former isn't so bad if the second point is okay. And I tend to trust books that get praised by other eminent historians, but of course no one's perfect. Just do your research and you'll be fine when it comes to reliable history books.