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Post by hi224 on Oct 10, 2017 17:41:10 GMT
Anyone have a few at all.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 10, 2017 20:20:02 GMT
The Whig Interpretation of History – Herbert Butterfield
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages – Norman Cohn (some of the groups sound like ISIL)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 21:28:23 GMT
Here are 20 History books i think are great
S.P.Q.R: A history of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
The Sea and Civilization: A maritime history of the world by Lincoln Paine
Europe`s Tragedy: A new history of the Thirty Years war by Peter H. Wilson
The Global Seven Years war 1754-1763 by Daniel Baugh
The Serven Years war in Europe 1756-1764 by Franz A.J. Szabo
Civil war: The wars of the three kingdoms 1638-1660 by Trever Royle
Stephen and Matilda: The Civil war of 1139-53 by Jim Bradbury
The Romanovs 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
A people`s tragedy: The Russian revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Russia agaist Napoleon by Dominic Lieven
Britian Against Napoleon_ The Organization to Victory 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
In these times, Living in Britian through Napoleon`s wars 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
1914-1918- The History of the first world war by David Stevenson
Global Cricis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffery Parker
The Balkans 1804-2012 by Misha Glenny
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hannoverians by Janice Hadlow
Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campiagns 1914-1918 by Christine E. Hallett
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Post by hi224 on Oct 11, 2017 1:05:49 GMT
Here are 20 History books i think are greatS.P.Q.R: A history of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard The Sea and Civilization: A maritime history of the world by Lincoln Paine Europe`s Tragedy: A new history of the Thirty Years war by Peter H. Wilson The Global Seven Years war 1754-1763 by Daniel Baugh The Serven Years war in Europe 1756-1764 by Franz A.J. Szabo Civil war: The wars of the three kingdoms 1638-1660 by Trever Royle Stephen and Matilda: The Civil war of 1139-53 by Jim Bradbury The Romanovs 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore A people`s tragedy: The Russian revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes Russia agaist Napoleon by Dominic Lieven Britian Against Napoleon_ The Organization to Victory 1793-1815 by Roger Knight In these times, Living in Britian through Napoleon`s wars 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk 1914-1918- The History of the first world war by David Stevenson Global Cricis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffery Parker The Balkans 1804-2012 by Misha Glenny A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hannoverians by Janice Hadlow Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campiagns 1914-1918 by Christine E. Hallett Thank you. |
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Post by politicidal on Oct 12, 2017 23:57:45 GMT
Hitler - A Biography, Volume 1: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation by Harriet A. Washington
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel
Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer
Anything by Erik Larson
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Post by hi224 on Oct 13, 2017 1:53:27 GMT
Hitler - A Biography, Volume 1: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation by Harriet A. Washington The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer Anything by Erik Larson I keep going back and forth on whether to pull the trigger on this actually. |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 13, 2017 1:55:24 GMT
War and Human Progress: An Essay on the Rise of Industrial Civilization – John Nef
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 18, 2017 18:18:19 GMT
...I own too many to list.
Some of my favorites include The Last Days of the Third Reich, The Blue and the Gray, The Dictionary of Battles and The History of Art.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Dec 19, 2017 7:16:16 GMT
Conquest: Moctezuma, Cortes and the fall of old Mexico, by Hugh Thomas
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War, by Stephen Platt
Brighter than a Thousand Suns: a personal history of the atomic scientists, by Robert Jungk
The Age of Napoleon, by Christopher Herold
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 29, 2017 22:12:35 GMT
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro (2006). A vibrant portrait of the Elizabethan Age.
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro (2015). Masterful account of the Gunpower Plot and England under Elizabeth’s successor, James I.
John Adams by David McCullough (2001). Deserves every prize it won. Pulitzer winner.
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis (1998). The lives and destinies of the three commanders of the Alamo, one of America’s most iconic forts.
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands (2006). Vivid biography of the sixth President.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006). The major source for Spielberg’s film. Pulitzer winner.
Beethoven (1979) and Mozart: A Life (1995) by Maynard Solomon. Two essential and definitive biographies at a major turning point in western music.
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose (1975). The straight story about two of the American west’s most famous characters. (Ambrose was accused of using other authors’ work without attribution in this and other books, so if that bothers you, act accordingly. This is still a mighty fine read.)
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 7, 2018 5:28:55 GMT
The Second World War - Antony Beevor
Beevor's WWII books are superb, he never glosses over nor paints pretty myths.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 13, 2018 23:41:52 GMT
Hitler - A Biography, Volume 1: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation by Harriet A. Washington The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer Anything by Erik Larson I keep going back and forth on whether to pull the trigger on this actually. Thought I replied to this. But yea go for it. |
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Post by hi224 on Jan 14, 2018 0:11:33 GMT
I keep going back and forth on whether to pull the trigger on this actually. Thought I replied to this. But yea go for it. it's very sublime as well. |
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 4, 2018 21:18:10 GMT
One I should have mentioned previously is HG Wells Outline of History. My hardcover copy is copyright 1924. It contains some very interesting illustrations.
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Post by Winter_King on Mar 12, 2018 11:49:43 GMT
The Second World War - Antony Beevor Beevor's WWII books are superb, he never glosses over nor paints pretty myths. I read two of his previous books: Stalingrad and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. Both, but specially the first, were excellent. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 18, 2018 2:36:03 GMT
I agree with so many of the choices already here, but let me add a few more:
Lady Anne Somerset’s The Affair of the Poisons is the best guide I know to that fascinating period; John Dickson Carr’s The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey is one of the best things (and one of only two excursions into non-fiction) he ever wrote; Carolly Erickson’s Bonnie Prince Charlie, though slim, is a good introduction to the man and his world and a favorite of mine growing up (I am probably the only American who was intrigued by the British monarchy—and pretenders to the throne!—as a kid); and anything Richard Overy wrote about World War II.
Oh! and how could I forget Barbara Holland’s masterly Gentleman’s Blood? Marvellous examination of the history of duelling.
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Post by louise on Apr 10, 2018 9:35:35 GMT
the Naked Olympics by Tony Perrottet
medieval Women by Eileen Power
life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies
Medieval Lives by Terry Jones
the Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
Mastes and Servants in Tudor England by Alison Sim
how to be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman
Elizabeth's Women, the Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
Scotland under Mary Stuart by Madeleine Bingham
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe by Steven Ozment
women all on Fire, the Women of the English Civil War by Alison Plowden
the Escape of Charles II by Richard Ollard
WOmen in England 1760-1914 by SUsie Steinbach
the French Revolution as seen by Madame Tussaud, Witness Extraordinary by Pauline Chapman
liberty's Dawn, a people's history of the Industrial Revolution by Emma Griffin
PErilous Question, the Drama of the Great Reform Bill of 1832 by Antonia Fraser
QUeen Victoria Was Amused by Alan Hardy
Recollections of Three Reigns by Frederick Ponsonby
Life below Stairs in the Victorian & Edwardian Country House by Sian Evans
The Virago Book of Women and the Great War edited by Joyce Marlow
The Debs of Bletchley Park by Michael Smith
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 11, 2018 15:57:28 GMT
...one more:
"A Distant Mirror" by Barbara Tuchman
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