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What's good?
I'll try to update this post once in awhile with recommendations.
Mine to start out with:
Books:
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond: Why Europeans won.
The First World War, The Second World War by John Keegan: My favorite overviews.
The Bitter Road to Freedom by William Hitchcock: The stuff we don't think about at the end of WW2.
Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade: What DNA tells us about history. Good counterpoint to Diamond.
The Forgotten 500 by Gregory Freeman: My son's favorite. Rescuing airmen from Yugoslavia in WW2.
Brotherhood of Heroes by Bill Sloan: Story of Peleliu - Gives a good feel for the Pacific in WW2.
Podcasts:
The History of Rome: The gold standard for me - the right amount of depth, some slight humor thrown in.
Hardcore History: Very entertaining - less a retelling and more of a reaction to how history is weird or might have felt to those involved.
The History of Byzantium: Pretty much a continuation of History of Rome, but without the humor.
Revolutions: Same author as History of Rome. English was okay, American was good, French is a little tough to follow. Except for loyalty, I might have quit by now.
Norman Centuries: A topic I didn't know much about. Good depth, no humor. Good production.
12 Byzantine Rulers: Kind of the granddaddy of them all. Good choice to do depth in spots rather than an overview, but History of Byzantium puts the same depth across more breadth.
I'll try to update this post once in awhile with recommendations.
Mine to start out with:
Books:
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond: Why Europeans won.
The First World War, The Second World War by John Keegan: My favorite overviews.
The Bitter Road to Freedom by William Hitchcock: The stuff we don't think about at the end of WW2.
Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade: What DNA tells us about history. Good counterpoint to Diamond.
The Forgotten 500 by Gregory Freeman: My son's favorite. Rescuing airmen from Yugoslavia in WW2.
Brotherhood of Heroes by Bill Sloan: Story of Peleliu - Gives a good feel for the Pacific in WW2.
Podcasts:
The History of Rome: The gold standard for me - the right amount of depth, some slight humor thrown in.
Hardcore History: Very entertaining - less a retelling and more of a reaction to how history is weird or might have felt to those involved.
The History of Byzantium: Pretty much a continuation of History of Rome, but without the humor.
Revolutions: Same author as History of Rome. English was okay, American was good, French is a little tough to follow. Except for loyalty, I might have quit by now.
Norman Centuries: A topic I didn't know much about. Good depth, no humor. Good production.
12 Byzantine Rulers: Kind of the granddaddy of them all. Good choice to do depth in spots rather than an overview, but History of Byzantium puts the same depth across more breadth.
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