engaging history books

[Anonymous No.22080591]

Recently read pic related and loved it. Very engaging reading style that humanized and gave an emotional core to what was an adventure story at its core. I usually don't like history as it can be very dry but I liked this.
What other books are similar?

[Anonymous No.22080627]

>>22080591
Henry Reynolds North of Capricorn

[Anonymous No.22080644]

>>22080591
The Narvaez Expedition by Cabeza de Vaca
Captain Cook's Pacific Expedition Journals are pretty comfy, albeit a bit dry in parts.

[Anonymous No.22080647]

Fun romp through 1930s china

[Anonymous No.22080657]

Congo Mercenary
My Sixty Years on the Plains
White Hunters
The Maneaters of Tsavo
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
Tigers in the Mud
Jackal

[Anonymous No.22080665]

>>22080657
would you happen to know any good books similar to what I'm looking for about atrocities, especially Rwanda? I know of Shake Hands with the Devil and We Wish to Inform You Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. The latter seems to be more of a reporter talking about his experiences as a journalist there which I'm not really interested in

[Anonymous No.22080690]

>>22080665
Not sure exactly what you're asking for. There are a lot of atrocities described in Congo Mercenary. White Hunters has a chapter about the Mau Mau rebellion.

[Anonymous No.22080699]

>>22080690
>Not sure exactly what you're asking for
just any well written, engaging history books like Endurance that are about atrocities. We Wish to Inform You is more of a memoir, I'm looking for more straightforward history

[Anonymous No.22080721]

>>22080699
Have you ever sat down and just read Christopher Browning 1993 Ordinary Men?

[Anonymous No.22080734]

>>22080721
I have not. I honestly kinda put it off as kind of a meme book since Jordan Peterson recommended it but I'll give it a shot

[Anonymous No.22080755]

>>22080734
Jordan Peterson wouldn't know quality history if I took him out the back and shot him into a drainage ditch.

Browning's Ordinary Men is a seminal text in modern atrocity studies because it subverts the higher levels of decision and deals with the functional aspects of small unit atrocity engagement. Browning overturns "Brainwashed SS boys," instantly, and causes a 30+ year research cycle on how atrocity happens in industrial societies.

The most telling bits is how well Reserve Police Battalion 101 matches the Weimar state's class and political alignments: these were the men of 1920.

Anyway, if Jordan Peterson rejected or supported any proposition I would do what I do with Jordan Peterson's opinions outside of his subspeciality in clinical psychology—fail to seek them out, or if forced upon me attend to them.

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>>22080591

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The Worst Journey In The World is definitely worth your time. It's about Scott's failed(ish) expedition so very similar in nature and it's very well written.

[Iron Cross 1st Class No.22080791]

>>22080591
Earl F. Ziemke

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>>22080591

[Anonymous No.22080819]

>>22080791
>The German Defeat in the East
Why don't you call it Soviet Victory? There were drag marks? Make it an officer or a sapper.

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>>22080591
Engaging read.

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[Anonymous No.22081414]

>>22080843
>>22080818
Kind of a silly question but anyone know any engaging history that read like genre fiction? That's another aspect I liked about Endurance. It read more like an adventure book than a history book

[Anonymous No.22081628]

>>22081414
Lots of history is written that way especially if its written by a journalist.

William Walker's Wars
The Last Armada
The Taking of Jemima Boone

[Anonymous No.22082124]

>>22080591
The River of Doubt
River of Darkness
The Last of the Incas

[Anonymous No.22082837]

Some of David Irving's books are excellent.

[Anonymous No.22082907]

>>22080699
Heart of Darkness

[Anonymous No.22082910]

>>22082907
not history

[Anonymous No.22083434]

B. H. Liddell Hart is always worth a read.

[Anonymous No.22083497]

>>22082910
You meant>>22082837

[Anonymous No.22084055]

Memoir from a helicopter pilot that served in Vietnam, details all of the insane shit and near-death experiences that happened during his deployment. It's kind of like Generation Kill but if the main character had anime protagonist-tier plot armor

[Anonymous No.22084072]

>>22084055
this and the Rosevelt one another anon posted seem the most interesting to me.
I'm seeing a lot of military history and while I appreciate the recs, I'd like to branch into more or less random historical, not solely wars. I had never heard of the Endurance, for instance, before reading it

[Anonymous No.22084079]

If you ever wondered what it was like to be a hobo in the 1890s. Comfy riding the rails. Fascinating memoir of Coxey's Army.

[Anonymous No.22084085]

>>22084072
In that case, Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick; a whaling ship gets sunk by one of the whales it was hunting in the South Pacific, leaving the crew to endure the worst conditions imaginable for months on end

[Anonymous No.22084202]

>>22084085
I'm definitely in the mood for more sea stories, thanks anon
anything that isn't sea related though? lmao
I don't want to get caught just reading stories about war and the sea, there's got to be some bizarre historical event with someone like Charlemagne I'm missing out on

[Anonymous No.22084263]

this reads more like a thriller than like a history book.

[Anonymous No.22084272]

>>22084263
slightly drier, but engaging enough to keep you interested.

[Anonymous No.22085341]

>>22080591
lmao what are the odds, im reading this RIGHT NOW!
about halfway through, really like it.

[Anonymous No.22086275]

This is less of a history book and more of a collection of primary sources but I really enjoyed The Black Death by Rosemary Horrox.

[Anonymous No.22086372]

>>22084079
>Jack London
As in Call of the Wild Jack London or just a coincidence?

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[Anonymous No.22087289]

>>22087185
on title alone, this reminds me of a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich my grandparents left me, which seems to be more dry than engaging

[Anonymous No.22087447]

>>22087289
>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
It's still very good overall and sometimes pretty passionately (and with righteous anger) well written, I do think that The Nightmare Years is his best book.

[Anonymous No.22087601]

>The Guns of August
>The Formation of Christendom
>Thucydides
>Reformation: Europe's House Divided
>The Civil War: A Narrative History
>The Campaigns of Napoleon

[Anonymous No.22087824]

>>22087601
>>The Guns of August
had a teacher recommend this to me but haven't gotten to it.
unrelated, know any good history books on tech/company stuff? Theranos, Enron, shit like that?

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[Anonymous No.22088106]

>>22080591
If you like survival stories, you'll enjoy:
Wreck of the Medusa by Alexander McKee
Alive by Piers Paul Read
Caliban's Shore
The Last Expedition
John Ransom's Andersonville Diary

[Anonymous No.22089146]

Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac

[Anonymous No.22089167]

>>22080591
I'm looking for a historically correct, sociological account of warrior cultures. Preferably from contemporary witnesses. Anything from Japanese Samurai, Greek Hoplites, Medieval knights to Indians. I'm interested how these people lived, their beliefs and culture. Aside from their overly romanticized modern portrayals in dramas.

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>>22080591
The slaves of the cool mountains - Alan Winnington

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Empire of Liberty

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>>22080591
A Savage War of Peace - Alistair Horne

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[Anonymous No.22092119]

>>22080591
>endurance
>history book
that's not a history book

[Anonymous No.22092123]

>>22080591

[Anonymous No.22092127]

>>22086372
Same guy

[Anonymous No.22093049]

>>22092119
how would you describe it then?