(Part 2) Top products from r/HistoryMemes

That was the first serious history book I loved. The rise in particular is amazing as a primary source, as Shirer was a journalist in Austria before and after the Anschluss. Just don’t put too much stock in what he has to say about teutons.

Also, my French exchange student just about had a conniption when he saw the swastika on the spine on my bookshelf.

Edit: while I’m here I’m going to recommend my current favorite history of WWII, The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze. I’ve never found economics so fascinating, or been more thoroughly convinced that Speer should’ve hanged.

https://www.amazon.com/Money-Mischief-Episodes-Monetary-History/dp/015661930X

First chapter of Friedman's book talks about a Polynesian tribe that used giant stone wheels as currency and walks through the absurdity of the mechanics of that economy. How the Imperial Germans, when they occupied the island, spurred the islanders to action by painting the rocks with black paint as a punishment for non-compliance with their edicts (it worked). How the tribe developed basically a system of credit that no longer required physical ownership or the moving of the heavy wheels.

Then he turns it around and points out that the paper money and credit economy is basically the same thing.

People will always find a medium of exchange. Gold served perfectly for thousands of years because it was malleable (coinable), rare, you could not fake it (Archimedes solved that), and to a certain degree useful as jewelry. Still is useful as a store of value in that respect, but if you have a responsible money supply (which we've more or less had since 1982), money functions the same as gold

https://www.amazon.es/Reconquest-Crusade-Medieval-Spain-Middle/dp/0812218892

https://www.amazon.es/History-Medieval-Spain-Joseph-OCallaghan/dp/0801408806/ref=pd_sim_14_2/261-0187197-0967101?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0801408806&pd_rd_r=e467b5b2-058f-452a-833b-36149a16a8ca&pd_rd_w=mFzRs&pd_rd_wg=w7FVt&pf_rd_p=6337f499-a6c2-4ef6-8539-cbf295487a0e&pf_rd_r=85QNVYWTB6G9A1KCC8XM&psc=1&refRID=85QNVYWTB6G9A1KCC8XM

https://www.amazon.es/Kingdoms-Faith-History-Islamic-Spain/dp/0465055877/ref=pd_sim_14_3/261-0187197-0967101?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0465055877&pd_rd_r=4d3adf2a-c2ec-48ae-a4dc-0d12989daecf&pd_rd_w=yCkF5&pd_rd_wg=bIHTK&pf_rd_p=6337f499-a6c2-4ef6-8539-cbf295487a0e&pf_rd_r=CW8NJK32VHN1RHM32CR5&psc=1&refRID=CW8NJK32VHN1RHM32CR5

https://www.amazon.es/Kingdoms-Faith-History-Islamic-Spain/dp/0465055877/ref=pd_sim_14_3/261-0187197-0967101?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0465055877&pd_rd_r=4d3adf2a-c2ec-48ae-a4dc-0d12989daecf&pd_rd_w=yCkF5&pd_rd_wg=bIHTK&pf_rd_p=6337f499-a6c2-4ef6-8539-cbf295487a0e&pf_rd_r=CW8NJK32VHN1RHM32CR5&psc=1&refRID=CW8NJK32VHN1RHM32CR5

https://www.amazon.es/Victors-Vanquished-Christians-Catalonia-1050-1300/dp/0521822343

https://www.amazon.es/Last-Crusade-West-Castile-Conquest/dp/0812245873

https://www.amazon.com/Learned-King-Alfonso-Castile-Middle/dp/0812232267

(Yes, I love O’ Callaghan, he’s the biggest guy in reconquista books)

https://bibliotecadigital.jcyl.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=16550

https://www.amazon.es/Gibraltar-Crusade-Castile-Battle-Strait/dp/0812223020

This are some of them, and the best imho.

Read Nataniel’s Nutmeg if you want to learn about the spice trade during the colonial era.

Highly recommend

Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140292608/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_8ctnDbFFAZQWR

Hey there! Or I should say Γειά Σου!

I'm a history major in the American College of Greece so we did a lot of Modern Hellenic History (besides our school education, which was based on orthodox [=national] history), and it helped a lot of the Greek-American students get in touch with events.

I'd recommend some books:

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Greece-War-Independence-Present/dp/1472567560

https://www.amazon.com/Greece-Modern-John-S-Koliopoulos/dp/1850654638

https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Greece-Cambridge-Histories/dp/1107612039/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=clogg&qid=1574711432&s=books&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Greece-Everyone-Needs-Know%C2%AE/dp/0199948798

You can find more by doing a search on LibGen or visit a library.

If you ever choose to move to Greece again, there're a lot of intensive Greek-language classes for people like yourself. Do not hesitate to ask for more info!

> Granted, he didn't have the control over his country the same way Hitler did, so nothing really came from it.

Yes, I think that's probably the fundamental difference between Germany and Italy during WWII, and the reason why the former was able to accomplish (for lack of a better term) what it did, whereas the latter sputtered-out and died. Also, militarily, Germany had long-running military tradition and well-equipped, well-trained, highly motivated Wehrmacht, whereas Italy was still reliant on First World War supplies and munitions.

If you care for any additional reading on the subject, I'd recommend "Italy's Sorrow" by James Holland. It shines light on some of the points you brought up, as well as gives a full picture of how the Italian Peninsula was ravaged from top-to-bottom during the war.

https://www.amazon.com/Italys-Sorrow-Year-War-1944-1945/dp/0312373961/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550626583&sr=8-1&keywords=italy%27s+sorrow

Sorry, we live in a capitalist society. You have to pay for knowledge. Here's an Amazon link, pleb: https://www.amazon.com/Economic-History-USSR-1917-1991-Economics/dp/0140157743

If you make minimum wage then the purchase and shipping of this book will only cost you roughly three hours of your labour!

Here you go

Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion

Alternatively, a book: https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788

They financed the in a big way Nazis, but obviously not all of their operation:

https://www.amazon.com/Swiss-Gold-Dead-Bankers-Finance/dp/0151003343

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp81b00401r000600120003-3

https://sofrep.com/news/russias-ever-elusive-warm-water-quest/

Here's a book you can read, I dont know if it has pictures:
https://www.amazon.com/Afgantsy-Russians-Afghanistan-Rodric-Braithwaite/dp/019983265X

https://www.amazon.com/Ivans-War-Life-Death-1939-1945/dp/0312426526

I'd suggest reading this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Solution/dp/0060995068

Your pop understanding of the Holocaust lacks nuance. Soldiers who refused to participate in war crimes were hardly 'Gestapo'd'. They were allowed to stay in the barracks - though they'd usually 'come around' due to peer pressure. People who criticized the Nazis were quietly deplatformed, but only radicals like antifascists and communists were black-bagged. Ghettos and cattle car shipments were public. Slave camps in Germany were adjacent to civilian centers to facilitate transportation.

The extinction of the untermensch was a popular directive in Germany. People knew and believed and acquiesced not under the jackboot'd pressure of tyranny but out of the logical conclusion of fascism.

Here is probably the most biased source I could think of regarding the Trail of Tears. Not even they themselves consider it to be part of a genocide, but they do recognize the high death count.

Here is information on boarding schools which were pretty much cultural genocide centers (killing cultures, not people).

A book I have on the subject is called North American Indians, A Very Short Introduction . It covers from the discovery of the Americas to the 20th century struggles of the Indians to receive greater autonomy in the government. It also highlights how the Indians who didn't die from disease were dealt with by various European and eventually American powers.

I apologize for not having more text or internet sources to provide. Most of my books on the subject cover pre-columbian and early contact. Also, I live in Georgia so most of my online sources come from Galileo which would not be available to you if you live anywhere other than Georgia.

The United States has a leper colony inside a federal prison

https://www.amazon.com/Sanctuary-Outcasts-Memoir-P-S/dp/0061351636/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=neil+white&qid=1573698065&sr=8-2

When i learned about the War of the Insane, i spent some time googling for more info and i found this book, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom: The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960.
I haven't read it yet, but it has an entire chapter dedicated to the War of the Insane and helps the reader understand it within the wider context of Hmong history.

All of it, hence the line:

Frantically starts flipping through pages, "oh oh. oh no. no no no. oh oh."

But if you really want to know specifics: https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062397346

I actually don't know. It was in a book about Cleopatra, actually.

https://www.amazon.com/Cleopatra-Life-Stacy-Schiff/dp/0316001945

I also could be mis-remembering the exact details, but the general plot was the triumvirate had a bit of a swap meet, and decided who would live and who would die.

They still regularly committed reprisals against civilians, and, on the Eastern Front at least, provided logistical support for theEinsatzgruppen.

The SS murdered 1.5 million Jews in Eastern Europe in the early stages of the Holocaust in situ, before the logistics of the cattle cars and gas chambers had been entirely worked out. While the Einsatzgruppen (the term roughly translates as “task force”) provided strategic direction and specialist expertise, they utilized local paramilitary auxiliaries as well as the Wehrmacht for equipment, manpower, and logistics.

The Holocaust could not have been carried out without the assistance of the Wehrmacht. The SS simply never had the ability to carry out an operation of that magnitude themselves, let alone all the other acts of insanity they were tasked with. The Wehrmacht were instrumental in helping the German State carry out atrocities against civilians, actions which had absolutely no military value or utility.

The “clean Wehrmacht” myth was spread by Germans seeking to distance themselves from the actions of the Nazis after they had lost the war, and should be recognized today for what it is: self-serving, ahistorical, easily disproven propaganda.

Its arguable that war is an integral part of civilization, violence as you will. Le Blanc wrote a great book called constant battles,

https://www.amazon.com/Constant-Battles-Why-We-Fight/dp/0312310900

Looking at the firs tools used for cultivation ties in to protecting said resources from outside groups. So economics and war are co dependent. A better example of that is of the Roman use of war of fill its coffers. Its prime method of garnering funds was via war until it grew to large and the spoils of war did not match what the treasury needed. The Fed is a result of World War 1, the GI Bill introduced returning soldiers for better education. Conflict is reflecting the boiling point of those issues