(Part 3) Top products from r/HistoryPorn

I'll give the articles a read, but since you seem genuinely interested in the subject, i'll propose something as well: http://www.amazon.ca/The-Sleepwalkers-Europe-Went-1914/dp/006114665X
This book is great, not only in a historical sens, also in the way the author writes it. Nothing at all to do with the usual history book, trust me, give it a read. And if you doubt me, go to the local bookstore, read the first few pages and see for yourself. The author backs everything up with sources and all so you can go verify what he is saying yourself, and he is objective throughout in his wording.

Correct, I don't have the numbers for you. However, I have given you a wonderful lead on finding something that you seem interested in. The book, Postwar, is a rich and in depth book about Europe prior to and post war. Reviewers noted the book's wonderful ability to dissect more modern history. If you're willing to write something like this:

>Yeah I'm sure a banking system lasting hundreds of years is nothing in the face of the holdings of 200 Jews in the 30s. The entire country is founded on that, definitely

Then, I'm certain you're willing to do some research beyond what you've already accomplished. You didn't seem to reference much in that quote, but I'm interested in where you've found your information.

The head of my department cowrote this, which is supposed to be a good introduction to history and science for the lay person. Otherwise the MRC unit at Southampton have a decent site. If you have a solid grounding in biology this review is a great introduction.

This is a really good book on the influenza pandemic

The Great Influenza

While we have no idea what this guy in particular thought, most correspondence and diaries found on the bodies of German soldiers showed that the ordinary men of the wehrmacht tended to strongly endorse nazism, and to really believe that they were members of a master race fighting subhumans.

Hitler's ideology was very popular among the rank and file of the german army, hence why the orders to massacre so many soviet civilians were carried out.

Omer Bartov's work "Hitler's army" really does a good job laying this out.
http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Army-Soldiers-Oxford-Paperbacks/dp/0195079035

Great book recently published on the lynching of Michael Donald, the SPLC, and the Klan lawsuit for anyone interested in more information....

https://www.amazon.com/Lynching-Epic-Courtroom-Battle-Brought/dp/0062458345

Hopping on the recommendation train, Worster's Dust Bowl provides the ecological and political history of the Dust Bowl era. It's an excellent read!

> Sorry I love the Titanic and maritime disasters (not in that they happen, but in researching them).

I'm just fascinated by the time period, the Western world in the early 20th century. If you read Titanic: End of a Dream by Wyn Craig Wade you can learn a lot about, not only the US government inquiry into the disaster headed by Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan (a railroad lawyer!), but also about the huge gulfs between rich and poor, and many of the long-outdated sentiments regarding race and gender.

I found this shirt on Amazon but it doesn't have the print on the sleeve.

Ya'll weathergeeks should read the book The Childrens Blizzard. In 1888 a body of low pressure was stuck up in Canada that keep building and building energy until it "broke" and slid down the east side of the rockies at more than 100 mph. Towns further east suffered the most casualties because children had gone to school on the unseasonably balmy day, only to be overtaken by the storm within a matter of seconds. What you will read will truly haunt you and leave you with a new understanding of nature and will.

It's not just about the storm, but extremely in-depth accounts of early immigrants, governments, and the first meteorology services in the country. 12/10 would recommend.

I went hunting for this photo because John Keegan in Six Armies in Normandy, while talking about the secrecy surrounding Enigma, states that there is a photo of Guderian and his typist. Keegan states that the "uninstructed" took the person to be his typist working on his typewriter.

I wonder if he met the same fate as the residents of Herculaneum...

> As others in the Herculaneum boathouses attempted to shelter themselves against the back walls or hide their faces from the approaching surge cloud, a fourteen-year-old slave girl cradled another woman’s child under her chin. The posture of her bones suggests an attempt to soothe – until, all in two-tenths of a second, their soft tissues were converted to incandescent gas and their skulls were exploded from the inside, by the pressure of vaporizing brain tissue and boiling blood.

Source: Review of Ghosts of Vesuvius.

Lots of things are said, printed and didn't actually happen. One person reports a rumor and another and another and all of a sudden it's printed in "history books."

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This book investigated the claims. None can be proven. These claims were mainly just because he was Irish. He made his money clearly and, at the time, legally.

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He was the first chairman of the SEC under FDR, and subsequently made many tactics he had previously used illegal.

Read books by Peter Godwin. Mukiwa details his own experiences in the BSAP during the war and gives a good feel for the history preceding the conflict's later years.

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Ray has every reason to lie about the situation. This book goes to great length to demonstrate that he is most certainly the killer and if are going to indulge in conspiracy theories about Ray being a patsy you should take the time to read it.

The book is Making History. And this is a pretty good article of Hitler's failings; basically he wasn't in any way a military leader, and didn't have any real plan, but nevertheless demanded his generals follow him absolutely

If this is interesting to you, I implore you to read the book Miracle at Midway, about the battle.

Check out Eric M. Bergerud’s book
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. It does a phenomenal job at showing the reader that the environment is as much the soldiers’ enemy as the enemy himself. Malaria, dengue- and yellow fever, fungus, sword grass, snakes, and even crocodiles harassed soldiers in the Pacific as much as opposing armies.

Read [Walking With the Wind][http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Wind-A-Memoir-Movement/dp/0156007088]... it is a fantastic civil rights memoir that will give you all the gory details of the sort of brutal violence protesters faced. On a regular basis at protests people were killed or permanently crippled or brain damaged from police or civilians. Like these guys were literally risking their lives at every protest.

I had seen the pictures of the dogs and fire hoses but before reading that book I just thought "well that's pretty bad abuse"... now I realize that especially earlier in the movement and at less media-covered events death or permanent crippling injury was possible.

Fucking brave men, women, and children to stand up to that threat, especially knowing that if you fight back it will only get worse for you and the movement.