Post /his/ + /lit/ book recommendationsBooks that are fiction but still hold /his/topical value are also appreciated
>>24880497I'm a sucker for all things relating to the Irish Troubles. This is fantastic
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>>24880497I liked “And the Band Played On” as a a history of the early AIDS epidemic. There were some inaccuracies but on the whole it was a good read
Reading Days of Rage rn and it’s surprisingly hilarious, just a bunch of white/jewish college kids larping as john brown and che and getting into fist fights with each other over whether they should say “power to the people” or “power to the workers” and if killing honky babies is a revolutionary act. Although it is less amusing when you realize these are exactly the types who got jobs in politics and academia after their little youthful escapades were forgotten
>>24880718Bunch of rich trust fund commies.
>>24880718Is it though? I mean I guess when you start subjecting babies to class analysis you've lost the plot a little. Are the bones going to be used to make, like, maracas for the working class street mariachis or what?
>>24880497Just finished this.I reviewed it:>Ah, Juan Posadas, real name: Homero Cristalli. Through the 40s into the 70s, he became a myth who's entire sect of extreme Trotskyists centered around nuclear war, UFOs and dolphins. However, it seems to be what his undoing was his imperfect human nature, something Karl Marx denied there ever was, since individualism was the opposite of socialism and we cannot blame the actions of a whole on a single person. If I fail, perchance, we all fail, etc. Posadas became the very thing that he disdained, becoming on the level of a Joseph Stalin, who killed his mentor Leon Trotsky, in cold blood. From rubbing shoulders with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, to the increasing entryism (a tactic Trotskyists use to infiltrate parties in order to subvert them) and sectarianism - J. Posadas, as Cristalli came to be known, always supported the most capitalist Fascists he could (especially Pinochet in his native Argentina). This was very similar to the accelerationism favored by certain leftist militants that believed that by ever-increasing inequality and bureaucracy, the suffering brought down would awaken the proletariat to rebel in mass numbers against their capitalist owners. Unfortunately for Posadas, his own selfishness caught up to him, having sex with the wives of party members and expelling party members who didn't agree to his increasing wild worldviews involving aliens and Transhumanist claptrap, not to mention his belief that nuclear war would wipe out the last vestiges of capitalism. This became such a problem he ended up replacing a majority of his original party at the end of his life. And as such when he finally died he ended up with few friends. However his beliefs still live on in what we term as "internet memes" and on the fringes of UFO "Fortean culture", edgy young people who grapple with the meaninglessness of their humdrum lives with visions of nuclear apocalypse, fusions with animals and plant life and visits by those from above, much like the Christian eschatology of the second coming. Considering its roots are Marxist you would think it would never entertain such dogmatic and quasi-religious frameworks but for a brief window in 1940s-1970s Argentina, Marxism basically became religious. Didn't Eric Voeglin warn about this? Four stars.
>>24880718Its very disconcerting that the majority of people who want to liberate the poor from the clutches of the rich are rich themselves. Very "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" vibes.
>Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived Ithttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/396162.Rebels_and_Redcoats
>>24881427I'm gonna try and attempt this next year along with Seeing Like A State
>>24881197I keep running into a particularly insidious type of revisionism, the "Think of the children" revisionism. It is stated repeatedly by disguised fascist, royalist, and liberals LARPing as communist on our board, and, misusing the concept of empathy that ruling class children can be re-educated and, failing that, sent to a labour camp. Let me be perfectly clear, the brats of the petite bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie, and of the aristocracy can not be "rehabilitated" or "re-educated" under any circumstances. They must all be liquidated alongside their inbred-paedophile-worker-hating parents. It is not the duty of the dictatorship of the proletariat to waste precious and limited resources attempting to coddle and re-educate children who, in 99.9% of circumstances, will grow up to be exactly like their parents. To secretly harbour counter revolutionary opinions and collaborate amongst themselves to foment bourgeois counter revolution. I don't care that they're in diapers, you put a bullet in their fucking head. Morality is NOT real, it is a theistic bourgeois construct regarding property relations. It does not matter if this is "good" or "bad." You put the bullet in the bourgeois babies brain, or he will grow up to kill you and everyone you love and destroy everything you fought for. Do you understand? If not, you are a liberal, a fascist, a royalist, and you ought to be hung by your genitals from the nearest lamppost. You are not a comrade, you are a coward, and vermin to be exterminated alongside the ruling class, their children, their pets, and their lickspittle servants. This isn't a question of "nurture vs nature" either, this is a question of risk mitigation and victory maximisation. I am not "weird" or a "freak" or "hate children" for understanding this. When the time comes I don't care if it's your local laundromat owner, I don't care if it's a guy running a hot dog stand, he is bourgeois! You will execute the entire family, or you will be executed alongside them. The pest, the maids, it doesn't matter. Kill, kill, kill!"
>>24881599You're a funny guy
>>24881599...so that's a yes on the bones as maraca fillings?
One of the very best books I've ever read
Carlyle's History of the French Revolution
>>24881599Glory to the Revolution, comrade Bergstein! Kill the wh*te babies!
>>24880497There is No Freedom Without BreadandRussia As It Is
>>24881599Holy based
This book I think should get more attention from the Middle Eastern or Indo-European studies. For a book targeted towards a general audience, Lincoln tries something new in Achaemenid studies by analyzing the empire's art and ideology based on Indo-European backgrounds and Zoroastrian texts, instead of the usual Mesopotamian or Greek sources.
Twelve Who Ruled
>>24881599>Morality is NOT real, it is a theistic bourgeois construct regarding property relations.Can the FBI pay this pedophile a visit? Thanks.
You cocksuckers post the exact same titles in every thread.
Pic rel gives a good look into the white nationalist and militia movements of the 80s and 90s
>>24881599Sounds like that Islamist revolutionary who concluded that everyone but himself could legitimately be killed.
>>24883079Post something new then instead of complaining
>>24881739What makes it so good?
>>24883089I find the subject matter fascinating but I'm put off by how hard this book is shilled on here
>>24880497good books on the history of technology? particularly specific devices?
>>24883936NTA but it's a legitimately enthralling book, it's just shilled here because it's easily digestible but is under the mainstream radar. It's gotten a lot more popular online in the last couple of years.
>>24883301Fredrick's character and story is just fantastic. Nietzsche called him the first European Man for a reason.It's also pretty well translated, so it's fun to read.
>>24883936Its good.
>>24884002C. J. Chivers The Gun. Marketed as about the AK and has a a lot about it but also has a history of automatic weapons to set the scene. I really liked it.
Page 10 bump!
This is a good 'after Charlemagne' book. Covering Louis the German, it goes over intellectual life as well for a bit. But it's mostly a narrative of the half century of wars between him and his brothers, and sons. It doesn't cover the next generation in much detail, they just get the conclusion but the narrative of the Carolingian Empire ends in 888 regardless, so it's only a decade.
>>24881599sir this is a wendys
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>>24881739Where can I download this?
>>24887584Anna's Archive
This + The Cheese and the Worms is pretty good
>>24888380Burn it
>>24883046i've seen this recommended a few times. what makes it a stand out book in its subject?
>>24880557I finished that today and thought it was very nice
Any good books on paganism or animism? Primitive groups from asia, in Borneo or southern american in Amazon forest would be best. Read Alfred russel wallace on borneo in Malay Archipelago it was great and want more. Ethnobotany related work is also good.
>>24881599I agree in spirit except replace the bourgeoisie with non-whites
>>24881599>inbred-paedophileAppeal to bourgeois morality, stopped reading there
>>24890153The bourgeoisie are all diddymaxxed they dgaf about pedophilia
>>24883245I've seen this recommended before, either here or on /his/. Is there anything like this but shorter? Not sure I want to do 900+ pages of the HRE.
Stop posting the same books in every thread you fucking faggots.
>>24880497Rating the books I've read this year>The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 by Pierre Berton3.7/5>Napoleon, a Life by Andrew Roberts4.9/5>Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing4/5>Julius Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy4.5/5Currently going through the Theodore Roosevelt trilogy by Edmund Morris
>>24890223Which books get posted every thread?
>>24880497Are there any /his/ book that it's obviously so fucking full of lies and bullshit that you wonder if the guy who wrote it was just taking the piss?
>>24890247These ones>>24880557>>24880584>>24882362>>24883089>>24883245
>>24887797Thanks
Currently reading this.Y'all should read this too, it's even more relevant today than it was initially published.
>>24890272Reading this in the same rotation as Sorel's "Reflections on Violence" was quite the experience
>>24890250Howard Zinn
>>24892197Thanks for posting. Was looking for something on this topic
>>24883936I was the same. It's ok. McVeigh was a patsy. Bunch of spooks being spooky. If you're into that you'll like it.
>>24880497>Books that are fiction but still hold /his/topical value are also appreciatedidk b, fiction in my nonfiction doesnt sound right
>>24884472Thanks. I wishlisted that.Also looking for sports history too.
>>24893752Why do all cool English language books about China have to be $300. I always hear people rave about the Oxford history and I find it impossible to find anything secondhand from it. Besides the Qing and modern China it's downright impossible to find any good affordable books about China
I've been on an English history kick recently.Read:The Perfect King (Edward III) - Ian MortimerA Great and Terrible King (Edward I) - Marc MorrisEdward II - Kathryn WarnerThe Plantagenets - Dan JonesThe War of the Roses - Dan JonesI think I want to read a book about Henry V and then read about some other era/topic.
>>24890223Stop not reading the books that get recommended, you insufferable consumer. >Stimulate me with NEW CONTENT NAO!¡Finish Bloom's canon.
>>24880718>exactly the types who got jobs in politics and academiaSo liberals have a brief fling in Marxism by way of the CIA plants>>24881126>commiesDo you know what the saying "If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck..." etc. means?
>>24888933Nothing? Pre 20th century botany or biology with historical depth. Something on trading outside of silk road or unusual book on the subject?
>>24894232Just read the series by Mark Edward Lewis, it's pretty decent and goes all the way to the Qing
