/lit/ - Literature

>>14450061
Too bad he doesn't cite fucking anything and us largely disregarded by actual historians. Read McPherson

>>14450165
>actual historians
>a bunch of untenured nobodies desperately clinging to the status quo
Cope.

OP read Boer War by Thomas Pakenham

>>14450061
Anything by Pietro Citati.

>>14450061

>>14450396
I’ve heard good things about this. What makes it so wonderful?

>>14450699
She has the historical facts down cold and does bring a sense of the personalities involved (Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, Richelieu, The Winter King) so that it makes for a compelling narrative.
Some people criticize her for being too much of a Gustavus Adolphus fan but she does have her criticisms of his lack of diplomacy with regard to his claims on Pomerania when he should have been cultivating allies

>>14450922
Shelby is a man.

>>14451006
CV is a non male

>>14450165
i don't see why anyone would give a shit
he captures the spirit, what do i give a fuck where they dug up some canon to prove what we know is truth

whoops wrong board hehe

>>14450396
Based

>>14450061
Churchill's Memoirs and his Life and Times of Marlborough are good. The Great Game by Hopkirk is great, and gives tons more reading recommendations of colonialst apologists

>>14450061
The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar.

>>14450396
Her series of books on Charles I and the English Civil War are also very good.

>>14450165
>the virgin historical accuracy fears the chad historical authenticity

You can't beat a bit of Flashy.

>>14450061
Winston Churchill's WW2 books?

>>14450173
>>14451070
>>14452300

Imagine believing that a history book not containing actual history isn't a problem.

>>14452337
>tfw no domineering east india trading company bf to colonize my boypussy in the name of the british crown
why live

>>14450165
I will, when I want to read a boring fucking textbook. Historians use the fact that we're reading it for college, and therefore will buy it whether we want to or not, as an excuse not to develop prose and style in their writing.

Grant’s memoirs feature lean muscular prose that influenced American modernists like Hemingway. Of course he’s going to be biased and makes himself look good but it’s great writing. It was a bestseller at the time and he wrote it while dying of throat cancer, trying to leave his family with some kind of income after he went bankrupt due to bad investments.

>>14452623
wasn't he the bad guy though?

>>14450165
Based

Edmund Wilson's forgotten masterpiece "Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War" is a very interesting book about what it says it is about.

>>14452870
I would say yes and suggest, instead, David Irving's "Hitler's War."

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