Post and discussion about any type of history book.>The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England by Marc Morris>The book begins with the Saxon kings, specifically Edward the Confessor, and shows how England was in constant conflict as the English fell prey to both Vikings and Normans. In the north, King Harold destroys his Viking namesake at the battle of Stamford Bridge but immediately has to hurry south to confront William of Normandy at Hastings. His defeat, and the destruction of the Anglo-Saxon warrior caste, leads inexorably to William's forceful occupation of an unwilling country. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40229197-the-norman-conquesthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Conquest
>>25234505Read this one recently.It’s insanely biased against Communism and it whines just a little too much about the Holocaust but is otherwise an excellent book on European history between 1945-2005.
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire by Brendan Simms>In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the continental balance of power in check while dramatically expanding her own empire. These alliances sustained the nation through the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War. But in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by alienating her European allies.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3744560-three-victories-and-a-defeat
>>25234959>In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower doubt.jpg
>>25234505How come this video keeps showing up on my YouTube feed?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY27Ds6Wc-AAnyway, I'm probably going to read this book. The Mongol Storm.
>>25234505Does the book say anything about linguistics? The Norman Conquest apparently resulted in the transition from Old English to Middle English.
>>25235595she's mine, back off bro.
>>25235804I think there's specialized books for that.
>>25234505Best book on the Korean War written by an actual historian?
Almost finished this book. just read 30 pages everyday. Today was talking about Caravel trade ships & how their mixed usage of sail types allowed them to more effectively manoeuvre compared to hanseatic & English Cog ships.Some parts about the Basque being excellent fishermen & whalers. Alongside their Whaling culture a bit & how often various fishing groups would hire Basque to give them advice & help them catch Islands around Svalbard. Alongside how some historians of the time (mostly Basque) proposed that Basque had managed to reach the islands before Columbus did.There was a section on Prince Henry the Explorer & how he financed exploration to try & find alternative routes to cut off muslim middlemen in the Silk Road & how he failed in his ambitions to make decisive & striking blows in North Africa, only managing to capture Ksar es-Seghir & Cueta in his & his fathers lifetime.Then the beginning of my reading of the Portuguese colonisation of the Azore & Madeira islands. With the inhabitants struggling to survive on Vila Baleira due to its dry environment. While succeeding on Madeira cutting hillside terraces to farm. I can remember if it was this island of Vila Baleira or madera, where they introduced rabbits & fucked the ecology for a while.Pretty fun book going over everything in a generally glossing manner to have further discussions & investigations. Only painful chapter for me had to be the chapter on Navigational objects. Since a written manner makes it hard to imagine how it works rather than a sight example.
>>25237207Will be starting this once I finish the Atlantic ocean book.Also what era of history do you prefer to read about? I prefer 19th - 21st century
Anyone read any books with the Laotian Civil War being the focus? Not like 3 chapters in a Vietnam book but the entire book being dedicated to it. It's the least spoken on the big three in SE Asia. Picrel looks like it might be the best book on the topic.I assume it's not as discussed due to the craziness of the Cambodian Civil War & it's aftermath with the Killing Fields & Third Indochina War. Not as famous as Vietnam with it's hundreds of thousands US troops (Not to mention other nations) being directly involved since 65
>>25236630so you haven't read it, got it
Mesoamerican history nerd here, as usual I'll shill "When Montezuma Met Cortes"It's a fascinating historiography and comparison of different accounts of the Cortes expedition/the fall of the Aztec, examining what the biases of each account is and how different tellings contradict one another, and how they have been retold and distorted over time and leveraged for different ideological/national interestsPlus, it gets into a lot of the personal as well as political background of both various Spanish and Aztec historical figures: It's one of the better books I've seen that tackle the political dynamics and motives of other Mesoamerican kings and officials like like Xicomecoatl, Ixtlilxochitl II, Xicotencatl II, etc, which is important as very few sources do this despite the fact their actions and motives played as big a part of how events played out as that of the (more commonly covered) Spanish officials. This is something I get into myself (including some observations even restall doesn't get into, tho moreso in even longer posts not linked here that me/friends have posted on other sites) here: pastebin.com/h18M28BR and arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/640670498/#640679139 and desuarchive.org/his/thread/16781148/#16781964 and desuarchive.org/int/thread/220614413/#220624574 and desuarchive.org/k/thread/64935126/#64961571 and desuarchive.org/k/thread/64434397/#64469714 + the other posts I link to within that /k/ post and the two posts of mine directly preceding that one I don't agree with absolutely every conclusion Restall makes but it and his prior work "7 Myths of the Spanish Conquest", are pretty much mandatory reading for a decent understanding of the topic just to get an idea of how the different primary sources conflict with each other and skew detailsAlso pic related is WIP reading chart me and some friends are working on. I'll probably end up removing Broken Spears from the Conquest section for Collision of Worlds and/or maybe add a few books on the conquests of West Mexico and the Maya regions since currently this is very Central Mexico/Aztec focused, when in reality there were centuries of campaigns and expeditions against Mesoamerican states in other areas: The last Maya kingdoms didn't fall to 1697If people want more suggestions on Mesoamerican stuff let me know
>>25237290Thats not what I said, faggot
>>25237425it was a simple yes or no question, retard
>>25237421Are you the faggot that spams his face, pictures of ducks, and lazy shitposts on /pol/?
>>25237657No, I don't post on /pol/, and I sure as hell wouldn't post images of my face online.I've thought about posting about Mesoameerica on /pol/ before though because I enjoy sharing information and like a challenge of trying to educate people who are in the least likely position to listen, but I figure even if I have the patience to deal with people there, the threads would likely die quickly since I assume it's a very fast paced board
>>25238041>who are in the least likely position to listen?
>"The information density is fairly high, and it's quite readable. I recommend A Distant Mirror to anyone interested in learning more about the middle ages."
>>25238053My assumption is most anons on /pol/ would be dismissive, do you think otherwise?
>>25238128Why do you think they would be dismissive of Mesoamerican history? There is at least one faggot on there that has mentioned it, the guy I mentioned who spams his face and pictures of ducks.
Just started this. No impressions yet.
Any good readings on bronze age general history of Anatolia and Greece?
Any good books on the comprehensive histories (e.g. ancient to modern) on this region. Both including the histories of states, people & cultures of the region? It doesn't have to be central Asia specifically but can be about the history & cultures of Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.All I know on the history of the region is that muslims expanded to here, Ghengis Khan & the following leaders took over the region. Then Russia took it over during it's empire & they became SSR of the SU before gaining independence of the 90's
>>25237652>retard, faggotEternal war
>>25234505Just got this. Thoughts?
Any opinion on this? Or anything about the Wars of the Diadochi?>>25238703This pops up often in these threads and its mostly regarded as the best general history of the HRE
>>25238880Any other good historians who do good military-constitutional history like him?
>>25238880Diadochi always sounds Japanese to me
>>25238703It is very good, but it's also very dense and non-linear
>>25238703I only read The Thirty Years War by the same author and while the book was incredibly informative, it was a complete drag to read and power through. Wilson's style is extremely dry and the narrative is not easy to follow. It took me like 10 months to finish because I would put it down to read other easy to read books. The Thirty Years War book started with a summary (long ass one) of the inner workings of the HRE, just to understand why the conflict even happened, and there were many times I got stuck rereading the same paragraph just to know what I read. Some of the negative comments from Wilson's books pretty much have the same complaint, so just be prepared to learn a lot but it's going to challenge your attention and understanding. This and his newest book are on my to read list.
>>25239350Wilson seems so legit, though. I do want to read that Iron And Blood too.
>>25239350also, forgot to add, how does Geoffrey Parker stack up to him?
