(Part 4) Top products from r/HistoryPorn

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.

If anyone's interested, there is a really good novel loosely based on the story of this club and its patrons, including the lesbian athlete Nazi sympathizer: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

This is a really good book on the influenza pandemic

The Great Influenza

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

You might be thinking of President Wilson. If you're genuinely curious about Coolidge, here is an interesting recent biography of him: https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967599

You should read "The Kitchen Boy", if you haven't already. It's a really good (fiction) book about the family's exile. It's one of those books I always come back to and reread.

That isn't how sources work.

This is the original blog posting that all 3 of those "sources" came from.

That blog cites two WW2 fighter pilot memoirs, Dancing in the Skies and Typhoon Pilot, both of which are pretty obscure. Dancing with the Skies isn't online anywhere that I can see, but Google Books has Typhoon Pilot, and it does indeed describe beer carried in Typhoon wing tanks. So it seems likely that fighters were used as improvised beer-tankers, but that's not a detailed confirmation of the story or the picture.

> 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.

If interested in another absolute badass but from WWI, I would highly recommend Erns Jünger's memoirs: http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Steel-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141186917

The guy fought in every major battle, was wounded 14 times, and went through some absolutely unbelievable stuff.

John Healy's autobiography The Grass Arena is an account of his time as a homeless alcoholic in London in the 1970's. It is regarded as a modern classic and gives a terrifying insight into the life that Healy and the subject of the photo shared.

It was made into a film available here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIPy8hk3SXM

The book (Far better than the film IMHO) is available here ...http://www.amazon.com/The-Grass-Arena-John-Healy/dp/0141189592

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

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.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alone-Berlin-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/014118938X/ref=nodl_

I just finished reading Something From The Oven and this was the time that those processed foods were beginning to creep into the American stores.

For people interested there is a [great book] (http://www.amazon.com/Congo-The-Epic-History-People/dp/0062200119) written by the belgian author David van Reybrouck about the history of Congo.

At the time, taxes were collected in rubber. For those not paying their taxes or paying not enough the belgians had 'collectors' which were practically death squads. They were the ones to cut off the right hand t prove that they went by the villages to collect the rubber but that the villagers did not collect enough. Hence the rubber tax is called ['red rubber'] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State_propaganda_war#.22Red_Rubber.22).

What people should keep in mind about the milgram experiment is that he did a lot of variables, and there were an specific set of variables that brought out the worst in people. Just FYI. His book Obedience to Authority covers every single variable and what it means.

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

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They knew. It is one of the biggest misconceptions about the Holocaust, that the German people had little to no idea what was going on, and that it was just the government. It depresses me to see it plastered all over this thread. I think it just makes people feel better to think that it was only a few evil people who perpetrated this horrendous crime, instead of many "normal" people. I highly recommend that everyone read the books and articles I linked to. They explain it much better than I can. I do doubt, however, that I will be able to change many peoples minds. Most of the time I don't even bother.

I'm not saying the Germans of today are bad, they have done many things trying to set right the crimes of their past generations. But the Germans of the time knew what was going on and many participated in it.

They knew.

No, I think Germany was poor because it was poor. https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Destruction-Making-Breaking-Economy/dp/0143113208/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 That book very thoroughly explains it. Also, Hitler's whole reason for starting the war was because Germany was poor!!!

Yeah, government spending can make a temporary boom. Duh.

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.