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History books.
Bastardous Bassist:
It's contemporary history, but Mark Bowden's book "Black Hawk Down" is fantastic. The movie became an action movie, but that's not really what the book is about.
Aside from that, Humphrey Burton writes a great biography of Leonard Bernstein, if you like biographies about fantastic musicians.
Surgoshan:
Try "Lies my History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your US History Textbook Got Wrong". It's a great way to learn how capitalism has completely whitewashed American history.
KvP:
There's Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a doorstopper of a book that contains a very thorough narrative of Abraham Lincoln's political career, as well as some food for thought if you're into American politics in general, as the scene was obviously way, way different back then. If you're not big on reading the audiobook is also excellent and much less dense.
pilsner:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 29 Oct 2009, 08:41 ---Try "Lies my History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your US History Textbook Got Wrong". It's a great way to learn how capitalism has completely whitewashed American history.
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No, no, the Freemasons whitewashed American history. Capitalism shtupped your sister without a rubber, and now she has to work in a Walmart to support the baby she gave fetal alcohol syndrome because she didn't know she was pregnant.
--- Quote from: KvP on 29 Oct 2009, 08:15 ---Yackety Schmackety do!
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Border Reiver:
On a more serious note,
The Steel Bonnets, by George MacDonald Fraser - a very well written and interesting history of the Anglo-Scottish Border
Where the Hell Are the Guns?, Guns of Normandy and the Guns of Victory - George Blackburn - the story of 2nd Field Battery From the start of WWII to the end, it is absolutely hilarious at points and gives an awesome worm's eye view of history
Dracula, Prince of Many Faces - Florescue and McNally
Vampires, Burial and Death - Not quite history, but an overview of how many aspects of what we call vampirism relate to historical burial practices
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