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Speaking of, does anyone know a good book on Alexander the Great? I briefly looked for one on Amazon but couldn't find anything that looked good.
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Puukko naamassa posted:Currently reading The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by John Toland. What is the focus of this book? Is it a history of the military campaigns of the Japanese, or does it deal more with the social aspects of the war and how the Japanese people dealt with and were affected by the war? I'm hoping it's the latter, because that's always much more interesting to me. e: no other thread on this forums puts as many books on my wish list than this one. Which would be much more awesome if I had any money. 
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Jan 31, 2012 03:00
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baw posted:Read some Mario Vargas Llosa, especially The Feast of the Goat and War of the End of the World (and be prepared for people to ask you if you're reading World War Z because they kinda look similar.) If you're into art in any capacity and are interested in Paul Gauguin and his lesser-known-but-still-famous grandmother, Flora Tristan, read The Way to Paradise. I've been wanting to make a MVL megathread but I'm not sure how interested people would be and tbqh I haven't thought much beyond the title, which would be "The Way to the End of the Goat: Mario Vargas Llosa Megathread!" He wrote The Perpetual Orgy, which is a pretty great essay on Madame Bovary. I wouldn't understand that book anywhere near as much without Llosa's book.
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Feb 1, 2012 23:16
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Anyone have some good recommendations for Russian history pre-20th century? I'm especially interested in Ivan the Terrible and his formation of the Tsardom of Russia, but I haven't been able to find a decent looking book on him. I already have Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie (which is pretty great), and I know of his other books on Russian history.
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Feb 9, 2012 14:23
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Anyone know a good book or two on the history of US atomic bomb testing? Not so much the Manhatten Project, but all the testing that came after Trinity. As a side note, isn't this the craziest goddamn thing: 
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