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Quality books on WW2 OP Thu Jan 16 21:25:39 2020 No.14551481 [Reply] [Original]

I've been reading pic related, its interesting, but riddled with contradictions and is mostly anecdotal. I'm looking for books written by non-biased authors. I read Victims of Yalta and its the same, Tolstoy doesn't even try and hide the fact that he's biased against the USSR essentially from birth. Can anyone recommend me some good authors who are actually only interested in divulging the true history? I'm interested in all topics, even prewar events, economics of the times etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 16 21:53:16 2020 No.14551630 With the old breed

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 16 22:05:29 2020 No.14551702 File: 545 KB, 1047x1489, Screenshot_20200116-220402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14551481 Churchill's war is also very good

Anonymous Thu Jan 16 22:15:48 2020 No.14551754
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You will literally never learn anything from mainstream histories of WWII. They all just list laundry lists of "X happened on X day" but they never go into the "why."
Pic related is basically the only book you'll ever need. It will throw your entire world upside down. Everything you think you know is wrong.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 16 23:27:16 2020 No.14552046 >>14551754 This book is necessary reading before approaching WWII

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 01:25:26 2020 No.14552585 >>14551481 >non-biased authors Writing about war? Good luck. Write if you find work.

Anonymous Fri Jan 17 01:34:55 2020 No.14552636
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>>14551481
I found this one to be really insightful. Most of the book is quotes from news articles and speeches from the time leading up to the war that I had never heard before. It has a bias, but very little commentary. Highly recommend. It is one of those books that got great reviews, then it just disappeared. I felt like no one else ever read it. But I have gone back to it again and again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 03:05:47 2020 No.14553017 >>14551481 AJP Taylor's Origins is essential

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 03:11:48 2020 No.14553040 File: 19 KB, 317x494, 1541446495257.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14551481 pic rel

Anonymous Fri Jan 17 03:24:08 2020 No.14553079

>>14551702
>>14551754
Both decisively refuted by the late John Lukacs. Irving, the "free speech martyr", sued Lukacs' publisher to have the parts where Lukacs criticises him removed from the British edition of The Hitler of History.
Him BTFOing Buchanan:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/necessary-evil/
>>14553017
AJP Taylor is the only respectable historian listed in this thread who argued against the "mainstream" ww2 narrative, and this book is genuinely worth reading. Irving has just one positive attribute, and that is his ability to compile a huge amount of original research material overlooked by professional historians (interviews, etc.). It's just a shame he is so flimsy and dishonest when it comes to interpreting it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 05:25:26 2020 No.14553408 File: 521 KB, 1440x2560, Screenshot_20200117-052429.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14553079 Colour me surprised...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 05:53:23 2020 No.14553468 >>14553408 resentful anti-semite slave moralist

>>	OP Fri Jan 17 07:24:00 2020 No.14553737 Thank you everyone for your suggestions, I can see its not just me who has a problem with this. I'll check out some of these. Has anyone got any suggestions specifically for the Eastern Front?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 07:40:28 2020 No.14553802 >>14553737 >Has anyone got any suggestions specifically for the Eastern Front? https://archive.org/details/Campaign-in-Russia-Leon-Degrelle

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 07:41:22 2020 No.14553804 >>14553802 >Degrelle confabulist

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 07:42:08 2020 No.14553806 >>14553804 gonna need to unpack that, lad

>>	OP Fri Jan 17 07:55:19 2020 No.14553864 >>14553802 >Flies a plane 1500 miles to Spain to avoid going to a Bulag for the rest of his life Sounds pretty chad

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 07:56:45 2020 No.14553868 >>14553864 him and Skorzeny yeah. No bigger Chads than those lads.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 11:51:34 2020 No.14554910 >>14553864 He's king Chad. Never surrendered his units colours. He was buried with them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 17 11:53:03 2020 No.14554921 >>14553468 You got me, schlomo.

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