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Grand Fromage posted:I'm looking for something that describes on the day to day life and operations aboard a modern Navy ship. It's okay if it's not 100% about the crew but I'd like it to be as focused as possible on them.
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Can anyone recommend a good book or two on Imperial Japan? I'm reading Shattered Sword right now and its making me realize that I know virtually nothing about how the Pacific war came about and Imperial Japan in general.
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire by John Toland
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Eri Hotta's Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy specifically covers the runup to war and captures in all the gory detail exactly how much of a dysfunctional shitshow the Imperial government was by that point.
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Reiterpallasch posted:Eri Hotta's Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy specifically covers the runup to war and captures in all the gory detail exactly how much of a dysfunctional shitshow the Imperial government was by that point. seconding this. its can be dry at times but its facinating how basically all of the various leaders bullshitted at each other as to either not get couped by radical younger chuddyer officers and because they all wanted to look good/brave etc to each other even though most of them even the hardline assholes kinda knew it was a dumb move.
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give me a book about the occupation of Japan or Germany.
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PawParole posted:give me a book about the occupation of Japan or Germany. Embracing Defeat for Japan.
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Right-o, what's a good overview book on the Gulf War? I realized tonight that I hadn't really heard of it, and I don't know where to start (aside from the wiki page.)
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PawParole posted:give me a book about the occupation of Japan or Germany. Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
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Naimark’s The Russians in Germany is a really good book about the Soviet occupation.
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I really enjoyed playing red dead redemption 2, and with the recent news of a Chud being killed by a Pinkerton, could any one recommend any books that covers the Pinkerton Detective Agency?
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ladd posted:I really enjoyed playing red dead redemption 2, and with the recent news of a Chud being killed by a Pinkerton, could any one recommend any books that covers the Pinkerton Detective Agency? O'Hara, Inventing The Pinkertons. If you're looking for echoes of current events in the Pinkertons' past, you'll find plenty.
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I'd like a book that explains the gist what we currently know about prehistory. Something similar to Leakey's The Origin of Humankind, only up to date.
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Global Disorder posted:I'd like a book that explains the gist what we currently know about prehistory. Something similar to Leakey's The Origin of Humankind, only up to date. Check out the most recent (Q&A) episode of the Tides of History podcast; he’s currently doing prehistory and talks about his reading list towards the end of that ep, I think. This entire series is worth a listen if you’re into the subject and don’t mind the podcast format.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:this thread is very dangerous for my "please read this some da-haha you know this is wishful thinking but sure, write it down" list more entries for my 906-row backlog-spreadsheet. the beast must be fed
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ketchup vs catsup posted:this thread is very dangerous for my "please read this some da-haha you know this is wishful thinking but sure, write it down" list For every book I finish, the list expands by 3-5 more
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because of the current political climate. whats a good book on hitlers last days?
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Dapper_Swindler posted:because of the current political climate. whats a good book on hitlers last days? If you’re getting hopeful just watch Downfall.
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I thought The End by Ian Kershaw was pretty good. It's the last ~4 months of Nazi Germany, so a bit broader than just Hitler in the bunker.
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Anyone have any recommendations on a good general history of the Teutonic Knights and the Northern Crusades?
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I'm going to be a bit selfless and promote my own work here - the embargo on my doctoral dissertation ended today, so while it's not a book per se, if anyone's interested in what amounts to a free ebook on settler colonialism, political appropriation of history, the use of legends, and how colonial ideologies ties into modern US politics, enjoy! https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/2342/
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Send that to Seven Hundred Bees, our next D&D book blind round robin is on that exact topic.
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Pick posted:Send that to Seven Hundred Bees, our next D&D book blind round robin is on that exact topic. Is there some thread for that?
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It's this but probably a fresh thread when it happens.
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Chairman Capone posted:I'm going to be a bit selfless and promote my own work here - the embargo on my doctoral dissertation ended today, so while it's not a book per se, if anyone's interested in what amounts to a free ebook on settler colonialism, political appropriation of history, the use of legends, and how colonial ideologies ties into modern US politics, enjoy! Well congrats, and good luck with your job search! I'm curious, did your graduate coursework touch upon the use of the counterfactual? What literature did you use if that is the case?
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Boatswain posted:Well congrats, and good luck with your job search! Thank you! Although job search... haha. This is actually the third year I'm on the job market, and the second post-PhD. Last year was worse than the year before. This year is apocalyptic. I'm lucky to have five adjuncting spots now. It looks like that's going to go down to two in the spring, unless something comes out of the blue. But honestly, the likelihood of getting a tenure track position, or even a fellowship, is essentially zero. I'm trying to think about the times that counterfactuals came up in graduate classes. The closest I can think of is the book "Britain and 1940: History, Myth and Popular Memory" by Malcolm Smith, whose first chapter is on how people in interwar Britain imagined what a second World War would be like. In that class, we also briefly talked about how impossible it is to seriously address the typical questions like "what if the Germans invaded Britain in 1940?" We also watched the mockumentary CSA in a class on depictions of slavery in film (a class which was actually taught by an historian who's also a speculative fiction author, P. Djčlí Clark). Although I was done with coursework by the time it came out, I did read Catherine Gallagher's "Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction" and would recommend it!
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Chairman Capone posted:Thank you! Although job search... haha. This is actually the third year I'm on the job market, and the second post-PhD. Last year was worse than the year before. This year is apocalyptic. I'm lucky to have five adjuncting spots now. It looks like that's going to go down to two in the spring, unless something comes out of the blue. But honestly, the likelihood of getting a tenure track position, or even a fellowship, is essentially zero. Yeah, the academic market was hosed before covid, hard to imagine what current phd students are feeling right now. Good luck anyways  I was thinking of more mundane counterfactual thinking — don't counterfactuals underpin everything we can say about the past? In the sense that we can't say that the effects of X or Y was this or that unless we imagine what would've happened if X or Y didn't occur. Anyway thanks for the rec, the Gallagher book looks interesting.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:because of the current political climate. whats a good book on hitlers last days? Ullrich's part 2 of his Hitler biography came out a few months back: https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Downfall-1939-1945-Volker-Ullrich/dp/1101874007 I just finished it, it is quite good
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Just finished Massie's Dreadnought, which I'm pretty sure I heard about in this thread. It was great, I really like his narrative style. I've got Castles of Steel on hold at the library now so I can continue the great war thing. Thanks for another good recommendation, thread
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clean ayers act posted:Ullrich's part 2 of his Hitler biography came out a few months back: they will literally just keep writing hitler biographs wont they wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Nov 13, 2020 |
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Vasukhani posted:they will literally just keep writing hitler memoirs wont they Nah, the first was a best seller and everyone else backed off
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clean ayers act posted:Nah, the first was a best seller and everyone else backed off I think we can all agree that William Shiriers book was an admirable attempt! Or are you talking about that Knausgaard book?
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Vasukhani posted:I think we can all agree that William Shiriers book was an admirable attempt! Or are you talking about that Knausgaard book? I was making a [bad] joke about a memoir being written by the subject himself
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clean ayers act posted:I was making a [bad] joke about a memoir being written by the subject himself I got it. i was trying to build off it lol
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Vasukhani posted:I got it. i was trying to build off it lol blah, sorry. long week
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I should make an effort post soon about my latest reading endeavors but for now I will simply add that Robin Lane Fox’s biography of Alexander the Great was very enjoyable.
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BigglesSWE posted:I should make an effort post soon about my latest reading endeavors but for now I will simply add that Robin Lane Fox’s biography of Alexander the Great was very enjoyable. He appears as an extra in Oliver Stone's Alexander movie!
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Ague Proof posted:Wasn't he the main character? Robin Lane Fox plays one of the companion cav, in exchange for letting stone use and abuse him as a historical consultant
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Vasukhani posted:Robin Lane Fox plays one of the companion cav, in exchange for letting stone use and abuse him as a historical consultant If I remember correctly, that movie was pretty bad but surprisingly accurate to history in a lot of ways?
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