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Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman

by A.J.P. Taylor

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"While this is a pretty great diplomatic history, it’s a bad personal history. I don’t care about his mistress tell me about Austria" — Aug 27, 2025 11:38PM

Jul 15, 2025 02:12PM

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The Battle For Stalingrad

by Vasily Chuikov

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"War memoirs are my version of court of thorns and roses/sarah j maas type slop. Endlessly entertaining. Anyway this one is extremely detailed, pro Kruschev anti Stalin (political but in a boring way) + somewhat more self aggrandizing than usual memoirs. But the detail about reconstituting retreating units to defend the approach to Stalingrad has such precision and imagination and anecdotes galore, I must appreciate" — May 13, 2025 02:52PM

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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

by Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author)

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"Narrative history which is interesting. Very lightly cited but it’s not trying to be that sort of history book (which was what I was expecting tbh). Very oriented around the perspective of the Arabs, and subjective interpretation as the crusaders slowly come in. Cool!" — Aug 29, 2025 10:08AM

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