Poll of the Day > Yo PotD do any of you read history books? Have any recommendations?

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Blighboy
04/13/17 2:45:14 PM
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I recently finished a book on the Holy Roman Empire and am currently reading a book on the Silk Roads and I need to sate my thirst for knowledge.
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Thunder_54
04/13/17 2:48:05 PM
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Lord of the Rings is pretty good.
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Jen0125
04/13/17 2:56:47 PM
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I ordered this book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning but I haven't started it yet.
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JOExHIGASHI
04/13/17 2:57:07 PM
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People of the Jaguar

You could also read those Eyewitness books
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WastelandCowboy
04/13/17 3:02:23 PM
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Been slowly-working through these.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Night by Elie Wiesel
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Flags of Our Fathers by James D. Bradley
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Paperback – November 6, 2001
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Paperback by Stephen Ambrose
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors Paperback by Stephen E. Ambrose
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Mead
04/13/17 3:06:17 PM
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Thunder_54 posted...
Lord of the Rings is pretty good.


Damn beat me to it
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Cacciato
04/13/17 3:31:51 PM
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WastelandCowboy posted...
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

This is one of my favorites. His other novel is where I got my username.
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JOExHIGASHI
04/13/17 6:18:49 PM
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If we're going with novels then Sorrow of War. It's about the Vietnam War from a north Vietnamese soldier's perspective
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Paper_Okami
04/13/17 6:25:39 PM
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https://www.amazon.com/Arabs-History-Eugene-Rogan/dp/0465025048

This was a really good book about the last 500 years of Arab history.
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