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>> No. 5561 Anonymous
18th June 2014
Wednesday 9:24 pm
5561 WWI & II
I'm looking for some good WWI and WWII books that tell the tale from a neutral perspective, accounting for all sides of the story etc. Any recommendations?
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>> No. 5562 Anonymous
18th June 2014
Wednesday 9:52 pm
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>>5561
Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes isn't about the World Wars themselves, it's a world history of the 20th Century, from 1914 to 1991. As you can imagine, the World Wars figure prominently, and I think it provides an excellent historical context, particularly for the interwar period.

I don't know if I'd call it "neutral" (in fact I might say that a lack of neutrality is what separates a historian from a chronicler), but he certainly doesn't make any simplistic judgements.
>> No. 5563 Anonymous
18th June 2014
Wednesday 10:30 pm
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>> No. 5565 Anonymous
18th June 2014
Wednesday 11:00 pm
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Antony Beevor's The Second World War is p good. Arguably biased towards the West, if your a Fascist revisionist or a slavophile idiot that is.

>>5563

I don't think he's asking us to read to him from our own libraries. Although I am unemployed so... you know, hit me up, OP.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 5566 Anonymous
18th June 2014
Wednesday 11:03 pm
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>>5565

Just realised that's a LAW not a Bazooka. Seppuku imminent.
>> No. 5600 Anonymous
6th August 2014
Wednesday 6:45 pm
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Bumping this thread to see if anyone knows any good good contemporary books about WW1, preferably from soldiers, medics, or reporters who were there to witness it.

I recently read "Sniping in France" by H. Hesketh Prichard, and I have to say I find the first hand accounts about trench warfare fascinating. You mostly only ever hear about trench warfare in the context of the infamous massed assaults, and very little else; I find it very compelling to learn about the reality and tactics of combat in such a disparate environment.
>> No. 5601 Anonymous
6th August 2014
Wednesday 7:06 pm
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No such thing as a neutral perspective, but if you want to read about it from the perspective of someone who rooted for the losing side, have a look at The Nameless War.

Warning: The author was imprisoned over his views.

Still, as I said, there's no such thing as a neutral perspective and I imagine you've heard plenty from the other side, so it might be entertaining to read. Just don't take any of it too seriously.

Other than that, Spike Milligan's war diaries are excellent.
>> No. 5602 Anonymous
6th August 2014
Wednesday 7:21 pm
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>>5600
If you've not read it, 'Goodbye To All That' is deservedly a classic - written by Robert Graves, who was a captain if memory serves.
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7th August 2014
Thursday 8:24 am
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>> No. 5612 Anonymous
7th August 2014
Thursday 7:36 pm
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Sven Hassel books. "Legion of the damned" is the only one that is not hysterically funny

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