/his/ - History

>>35038

Technically counts anon, but try harder

>>35040

Those actually look pretty interesting. Are they set in medieval England or something?

>>35042

I might give that China one a try. My knowledge on Asian history is really lacking.

>>35044

Yeah they are, they're pretty good and I'm probably just being a bit too harsh on them. The books are based around a boy who has had his village destroyed by French raiders and so he joins the English army in France as an archer at the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War. In France and Normany you see him fight in many battles while he attempts to learn his family's history and his true destiny

First time attempting a spoiler tag, inb4 newfag I just have never had the need to before.

I would reccomend his HUGE series about Wessex and Early-Middle Ages England, the first book in that series is The Last Kingdom which has recently been made into a TV series which could still be available on BBC iPlayer. He also wrote the Sharpe books that the TV series of the same name is based on and another book I reccomend is The Fort, a historically accurate novel based around a small contingent of British soldiers ordered to set up a fort in Massachusets in 1812 before being set upon by an American force of nearly double its size.

>>35045

ay, spoiler tag worked, go me.

>>35045

cheers anon, I'll give him a look

shameless self bump

Currently reading The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides and The Birth of the Church by Ivor J. Davidson.

>>35072

I still need to get my hands on that.

>>35075

You can find (and download) a PDF of it here:

http://ir.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handle/123456789/126002/051b3536f3bdea2fe5d2b7eede365705.pdf?sequence=1

I don't know if print copies are still available on the market. I'd suggest Ebay or Amazon if you're looking for one.

Anyone happen to know any good books witch cover clothing during the dark/early medieval ages?

More specifically female clothing during that time frame?

>>35088

A quarter through, had a laugh.

>>35120

I read that book on the 30Y War last year. Very good, and the introduction with the state of the Empire before the war was very helpful in understanding the situation.

Don't forget to read the older history by Wedgewood, too.

Been on something of a 30Y war mood for a while now. Been painting an army in 15mm, playing the Pike and Shot vidya game, reading books like that which I hadn't read before. I find the entire early modern period very interesting both politically (with the creation of the secular state and the modern nation state) and militarily (throwing pikes and more missile cavalry into the mix makes it more interesting than later line armies).

What are some good books on eastern european history?

>>35212

That's a lot of fuggin history anon, you'll have to be more specific.

>>35217

not learning ancient Greek and reading the original translation? Absolute plebeian.

>>35212

You want to know about the early Slavs?

>>35267

if i knew greek, why you i read a translation when i could read the original? besides, the originial wouldnt give me as much context and suplamentary information as the oxford version.

also i lack the willpower to each myself foregin languages; ive tried to learn german three times, twice from rosetta stone and once that free online one whose name currently escapes me, and i always just eventually stop doing it for one reason or another. not becuase i find it difficlut either, i just tire of the repetition i guess.

i do want to learn ancient greek and latin, i just lack the time or money to hire a private tutor.

>>35272

tthat's what I meantbut the wordsffailed me.

If you want to learn another language and see it through just set a goal like learning German so you can shit post on the German board.

Anyone here know any good books on Charlemagne?

>>35335

>>35072 has some really interesting explanation why he was so fervent in bringing Christianity to the Saxons and the other Germanic pagans.

>>35391

Andrew Roberts is biased as fuck mind.

>>35401

I heard Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman is good. Haven't read it yet though.

Also good luck sifting through metric shittons of books written by hippies parading their matriarchy and free sexuality.