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u/slam260 · 3 pointsr/paradoxplaza

I really enjoyed B H Liddell Hart's History of the Second World War. It's a quite in-depth analysis of the war down to the level of individual divisions and day-to-day strategic and tactical decisions. Fairly detailed but still quite easy to read.

He's a British historian/military strategist/soldier who was a big proponent of mechanisation and indirect warfare before and during WW2. He had extensive interviews with German generals after the war which are relied on in this book and published elsewhere. There is a bit of debate about him inflating his own role after the war I think but I don't know a great deal about that. Either way its a very good book to look at the military aspects of the war rather than the political.

u/ThereisnoTruth · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Here's one place you could start.

EDIT: Here is an excellent opinion piece you could start with that gives insight into the current political system in the U.S.: Confessions of a Republican Operative

For background you might consider:

Democracy in America - By Alexis de Toqueville

You might also look at - Heavenly Discourse - by Charles Erskine Scott Wood - if you look up and become familiar with all the characters mentioned in this series of essays it will give you a good foundation for the U.S. during the period of World War One. Many of the same interests which were in conflict then, are still in the same conflicts now.

Here is a quote from the book:

>Pupils are brought up to a superstitious reverence of the dead past. They are taught a flag idolatry that blinds the youth to the fact that today the flag at home stands for suppression of free speech, free press, free theater, personal freedom, and abroad, stands for conquest and rule and looting of weaker peoples. The flag - the piece of bunting - is made holier than that resistance to oppression which gave it birth. Let any one advocate evolution, change, progress, freedom - and a mob is loosed against him - a mob taught intolerance in the schools; taught that the individual can be ordered, commanded, bullied, crushed; falsely taught that the flag still stands for democracy and freedom, and that patriotism and loyalty mean devotion to a free country of noble ideals. As a matter of fact, the country is owned by a few, very few, and the ideals are the piratical ideals of an imperialistic oligarchy - suppression of slaves at home, conquest and exploitation of new territory and new slaves abroad.

Every bit as true today as it was then.

Btw if you enjoy the history of World War Two, I highly recommend The History of the Second World War - by Liddel Hart.