(Part 2) Top products from r/fakehistoryporn

Augustus by Anthony Everrit is a great place to start for the life of Augustus.

Tom Holland's Dynasty is amazing as well and covers all of the Julio Claudian dynasty.

For original source material, Plutarch's Lives and The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius.

It's already been mentioned here, but I'll mention it again: The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan is an easy way to digest this stuff. The production quality in the beginning is very poor, but that gets so much better as it goes on.

He published a book last year called The Storm Before The Storm, which is about how the Republic got to the point where men like Julius Caesar were able to come onto the stage and do what they did. There are some really disturbing parallels to our own times. While it's always a bit silly to compare America to Rome, the similarities are fairly stark. The paper back comes out later this month.

Duncan is also currently producing a podcast called Revolutions, in which he does narrative histories of the English, American, French, Haitian, South American, and Mexican revolutions, as well as the French Revolution of 1830, the pan-European revolutions of 1848, and the Paris Commune. I know this is off topic, but Duncan really is amazing and I never miss a chance to plug his work.

Edit: here are the two episodes of The History of Rome that deal with Augustus's style of rule. Caesar Augustus and Reigning Supreme.

Here is a great book that goes into the benefits and major drawbacks of German military tactics. https://www.amazon.com/German-Way-War-Thirty-Studies/dp/0700616241/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2J0JQ0ZNDN2U3&keywords=german+way+of+war&qid=1551199580&s=gateway&sprefix=german+way+of+%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-1

America is going to have a hard time doing it again, honestly. It definitely can't do whatever it wants. Those days are over and there's even a book about that.

https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Power-American-Exceptionalism-Project/dp/0805090169

You'd be hard pressed to find an Ethicist who agrees with you. You know - someone who's philosophy major was in ethics?

Here's a good book to read - maybe you should consider taking an ethics course.

I read Knights of Spain - Warriors of the Sun, and the spanish did not give a fuck about natives. Oftentimes they view native encounters merely as a means to get more food and to capture at least a handful to act as guides and porters. De Soto landed in Florida with a group of 600 people. 600 people traversed the south east. Granted their numbers dwindled over the sojourn.

After some time on their journey, the spanish wrote about encountering abandoned villages with barbacoa filled with corn. Word must have spread of the Spanish's ferocity and the native people would up and leave.

I strongly recommend that book. It's an incredible read and very accessible. It doesn't bog you down with historical jargon.

Mao:

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Stalin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_deaths_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin (the whole article has citations).

Nope. Atheist here. And I just provided you with a 1168 page acclaimed biography from an acclaimed historian of Hitler's life and the Third Reich which goes extremely into depth on his suicide and the circumstances surrounding it. I'm not triggered by this. I just realize that I won't make any progress here because I'm dealing with a simpleton.

But I'm sure if I were Jewish, you'd call me a kike and say you want to gas me or something. I dunno. You're probably like the neo-Nazi other neo-Nazis look down on because at least they're not basement-dwelling losers. They're just regular losers.

Here's the link to purchase it if you actually want to look into it. I'm sure you don't, though.

Holy shit. If you're going to invoke the name of Darwin, maybe pick up an actual book instead of reading (can you even properly read?) nut job websites and watching YouTube videos. Fucking idiot.

Poor James Garfield. Anyone interested in reading more about him and his unfortunate assassination should read Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard.