(Part 2) Best historical essays according to redditors
We found 49 Reddit comments discussing the best historical essays. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Lewis mumford's Pentagon of Power: Myth of the Machine is by far the best book I've read on the subject.
Mumford does a great job covering what he believes the mechanical world will do (and scary enough is doing) to humanity.
The reviews do a better job of explaining what the book is about.
These are a few you want if you're focused on the European Theater:
Endgame, 1945 by David Stafford
http://www.amazon.com/Endgame-1945-Missing-Final-Chapter/dp/0316035998
After the Reich by Giles MacDonogh
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0465003389/ref=pd_aw_sims_1?pi=SL500_SY115&simLd=1
Germany 1945: From War to Peace by Richard Bessel
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060540370/ref=pd_aw_sims_3?pi=SL500_SY115&simLd=1
There are of course a few more but this should get you started. One thing I like to do is if you find a good, comprehensive book on a topic you like, be sure to check out the reference/source pages in the back. Most good history books that's aren't direct novelizations will have references to direct sources that are usually pretty good themselves. Good luck and happy reading!
Don't read any of David Horotwitz's books—like Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion—if you have a light stomach for left-wing corruption. The pool of radicals, communist holdovers, and identity politics militants in the mainstream of the Democratic Party and the political left is nothing short of terrifying.
Thomas Sowell's Dismantling America: and other controversial essays is another great starting point.