What history books are you currently reading or have recenly read?

[chequita guevara]

IIRC, Bell's not a neo-con, but a post-modernist (which is still a reactionary philosophy, despite what they think of themselves). I think I have that book at home, but I'l have to check.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
IIRC, Bell's not a neo-con, but a post-modernist (which is still a reactionary philosophy, despite what they think of themselves). I think I have that book at home, but I'l have to check.

I took a course with Bell in college, and he didnt seem PoMo to me - not really neo-con either - not a Straussian. But an Ex-marxist turned centrist, still using some Marxist analytical categories. (and of course all the grad student teaching assistants WERE Marxists)


His big work in the '60's which may look PoMo, was "End of Ideology"

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

"The unequalled self"- a biography of Samuel Pepys.

[lord of the mark]

oh and Bell also wrote "The coming of Post-Industrial Society" - definitely into "Postness" and struggling past Modernism, but not influenced by DeMann, Derrida, Wittgenstein, etc. AFAIK.

Maybe not a neo-con, but he did used to get published in Commentary a fair amount, and was apparently a pal of Irving Kristol.

[CerberusIV]

"Achtung Panzer" by Heinz Guderian. Very interesting for the insight it gives into why the Wehrmacht generally and the panzer forces in particular developed in the way they did.

[Traianvs]

Warfare in the Classical World by J Warry

the title is self-explanatory

[Serb]

“Playboy” by…hell knows by whom.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
The Tank Fisco of 1941 by Vladimir Beshanov. About the history leading to the russian tank fiasco and generally about world war 2.

Hey, what fiasco? Russians tanks kicked everyone asses in WW2. Ask Azazel, his grandfather was a tankist.
(1941 doesn’t counts).

[Sirotnikov]

Serb - the knee jerk reaction doesn't help you. Russian tanks didn't kick any ass in 1941, because the tankists were illeterate and untrained, and the generals had no experience.

Only later did the situation improve.

[Bosh]

I'm currently rereading Plauges and Peoples by McNeill, which is one of my favorite books (really demonstrates the historical importance of epidemic diseases and really ties everything together with an interesting theoretical framework) and a translation of the Icelandic Sagas which is a surprisingly-gripping read.
Both highly recommended

[Mordoch]

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the coming of The Great War by Robert K. Massie.

[MrFun]

The last one I read -- before my semester began, was Eric Foner's "Reconstruction."

[David Floyd]

Right now I'm reading a book about Matt Ridgeway and the WW2 history of the paratroopers called "Ridgeway's Paratroopers", "The Battle for Rome", by Robert Katz, "History of the First World War", by John Keegan, and "The Cryptographers", a history of world cryptology, by David Kahn.

[David Floyd]

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the coming of The Great War by Robert K. Massie.

Oh yeah, come to think about it I'm about mid-way through that one, too.

[Ted Striker]

The Bible
National Rifle Association Weekly