History Buffs: What are you reading right now?!

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<p>I was recommended Natasha’s Dance by my Russian professor from last quarter. I have not purchased it because I have other stuff I need to read to right now and my bookcase is becoming obese and unread. It smells like a Borders with untouched, dirty human hands.</p>

<p>I ran across these too:
The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism</p>

<p>I did not purchase them for the reasons involving Natasha. Instead, I am looking at this:

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<p>I hate myself.</p>

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<p>I am not reading any history related books. I love history though, I have been watching the history channel ever since I got out of school.</p>

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<p>I love history as well, but I pretty much use wikipedia to read up on stuff. My current craze is the HRE (Holy Roman Empire)</p>

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<p>I’m finishing up * The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler * by Robert Payne and have just started * Auschwitz Report * by Primo Levi and Leonardo De Benedetti and * Hitler’s Scientists * by John Cornwell last night. </p>

<p>Yeah, I’m obviously way into the WWII stuff :)</p>

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<p>Any recommendations for books from about the civil war era?</p>

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<p>I’m always a fan of just going to Books A Million (or any other large bookstore), heading towards the WWII section and buying whatever looks the most interesting and well written at the time…of course switch out the WWII with the Civil War for you. Hasn’t failed me yet.</p>

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<p>I’m more into Historical Fiction. I like that there it’s in a historical setting and you learn about what life was like during that particular era. Also the fact that there is a plot around it with different characters. One historical fiction book I really enjoyed that takes place in the Civil Wat era is Annie Between the States. Annie’s family is Confederate and it gave me alot of insight on why the Confederates belived in what they did.</p>

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<p>“The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara EXCELLENT!!</p>

<p>well, i’ve started reading “The Supreme Court” by William H. Rehnquist. kind of need to… uh… chug through that one</p>

<p>I’ll probably pick up another Shaara book though, soon.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies.</p>

<p>katho11 - I expect to see more of your replies.</p>

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<p>Six Armies in Normandy - John Keegan
(from D-Day to Paris)</p>

<p>The Face of Battle - John Keegan
(this book studies Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme)</p>

<p>Roman Warfare - Adrian Goldsworthy ( Series Editor John Keegan!)</p>

<p>As you can see i have turned into a John Keegan groupie, but for good reason. A friend of the family recommended him to me to start off with before i got into Clausewitz and Sun Tsu (read that before these… whaha i am so cool).
These however are all more ‘warfare’ oriented. By the way the book Emmeline described seems pretty interesting(about the Balkans).</p>

<p>Also for the Winston Churchill fans around here, or anyone who enjoys humorous historical figures:
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill</p>

<p>Hope this helps</p>

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<p>Anyone here read Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? I heard it’s monstrously long, but amazing.</p>

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