FP History Appreciation Thread: Volcano God Worship Edition - General

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Cool, I hope it takes off and doesn't get completely burried in general. I just started "Kursk, 1943" from Roman Töppel after listening to two lectures about the battle, it's short but might take me a while, my work doesn't give me a lot of time to read. I've been binging the World War II History Round Table channel as well in the past weeks though, it's been great to get another overview of big battles and learn about more obscure aspects of the war like the history of german POWs in the US

Toppel's a great author. Very good at boiling down complicated manoeuvres in a very concise but still accurate manner. I'm reading "Early Medieval Ireland and its Interactions with Europe" (2017) which is a compilation of various scholars. It's concise but still one of the most pleasurable reads on Ireland in the Early Medieval Period i've ever read.

Yeah the book is both easy to digest and dense with relevant info, hes a really good writer. Im giving myself room for a few more books on WWII. Ive learned a lot about the pacific, western and eastern front already, so maybe an overview of north africa, italy, greece next. Ive been diving deep into tank and warship design and production, so planes designs and their impact next. After that, Ill be looking for medieval architecture books, both religious, private housing, medieval engineering etc. Paris architecture museum has a huge permanent collection of gothic architecture maquettes and 1:1 scale reproductions of churches ornaments and walls but not that much about the evolution and history of the style. I studied irish architecure a little bit when I was doing an overview of every european country. Ill for sure go more in debth about irish history at some point though.

This year I I solemnly swear I shall finish Macmillain's Paris 1919, Strachan's The First World War: Volume One - To Arms!, and Clark's The Sleepwalkers. I've started and gotten through chunks of each of them (usually the relevant parts I wanted out of them), but then got distracted by other books.

This is such a good book, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

It's fantastic, I'm like 60ish percent of the way through - I just keep getting distracted by other books like on Naval History.

Whats books are you reading on Naval History? I've started watching this channel on warship history, what do you think of it. https://www.youtube.com/user/Drachinifel He talked about his sources at 23:00 of his first podcast. https://youtu.be/rHw98ee8Hlk?t=1383 I remember you having some criticisms of The Great War channel, i'd love people who are studying history and in history academia giving reviews of serious history channels.

Books I'd recommend, since I focus on WWI, would be: Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie (and its predecessor, *Dreadnought*), Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology by Norman Friedman, Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters During World War One by William N. Still Jr., Find and Destroy: Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War One by Dwight R. Messimer, and From Imperial Splendor to Internment by Nicolas Wolz all tend to be good primers. And that channel seems decent, has kind of the same problem I have with TGW is that there aren't any sources listed.

Picked up these 3 beauties today https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225353/e5fd812f-9124-4615-b3d7-213d82679d45/8D35402B-43C9-44FE-8F73-A575DEB2C1F0.jpeg

I remember posting this elsewhere on Facepunch, but it didn't garner much attention: https://youtu.be/oGrO4emyZG8 An interesting perspective that isn't often heard. His description of the "non-defending air defense" at 2:18 onward is pretty amusing.

http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1577/1/2002crollphd.pdf An interesting dissertation on apocalyptic pagan dictator idolizing anti semitic Field Marshal who revolutionized armoured warfare in the 30s, Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

Anyone here have any reading material on the 30s? Specifically books on the Popular Front and Action Francais in France during the left cartel.

Basing theses picks on the positive reviews from other historians, can't say anything myself as I didn't read them. They do look exhaustive though. The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934-38 Julian Jackson The French Right Between the Wars: Political and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Fascism. Samuel Kalman, Sean Kennedy Front populaire and SFIO will be easier to research, I can't find english speakers who wrote about AF in particular, there's a lot about other far right movements though.

Finished Herwig's *The Marne* and Chris Kempshall's *The First World War in Computer Games* (an absolutely fantastic read). Going to finish Strachan's *To Arms* now.

I'm not gonna allow this thread to fucking die on me. I finished Stout's Early Medieval Ireland, and I actually met him on the weekend. He's a family friend and I got a signed copy of it.

aw hell yeah, I loved signed copies of book. I have volume 1 of a biography of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson from the 1920s, and the original owner wrote the date he finished the book in on it. in 1928!!

Can we talk about cool stuff we find doing genealogy here? I found one of my 4th Great Grandfathers was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale and my Great Grandfather on my mom's side went to school with H. W. Bush. My dad's side of the family is mostly Mormon Pioneers while my mom's is filthy rich New England blue-bloods.

At first I thought this thread was going to be about the history of Facepunch, rather than world history.

Subbed and followed. Would love a place to chat history that doesn't get buried by masses of people (reddit) or shit /pol/ pseudohistory (4chan). Anyone here study the history of drugs, medicine, public health? I graduated two years ago (Bach) and am trying to keep engaged in the conceptual field as I work in applied mixed methods health/clinical research but I have nobody to dialogue with

AskHistorians AskHistorians AskHistorains. Seriously, a fantastic subreddit if you're looking for other places to discuss actual history. You could also look for more specialist subs as well, WWI has a few for example. BadHistory is ok, but is mainly focused on debunking poorly done history.

Yeah I'm subbed and appreciate their content but I'm just not much of a contributor to Reddit. Doesn't feel enough like a community because there's so many people and any comments tend to get lost in a sea of comments.

RES helps in this regard, at least a little bit. And on a place like AskHistorians you tend to get to know the regular users. the default history sub is pretty bad, there's sometimes some decent threads on there - but moreoften than not it's stuff like "which you prefer wwi western front or wwii eastern front??" which is tasteless imo and also ends up missing the intracies and nuances of both conflicts.

I'm reading a book on militant atheism in the Soviet Union right now. Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless by Peris (1998). Probably one of the most comprehensive overviews of atheism in the USSR i've read so far.

A while back I found this article about my 4th Great Uncle and aunt in the New Castle Herald in 1921 https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/342677/02f3d878-0dc2-4444-ba29-e2ae7cec8010/Interview about ad placed for _For Rent - One Husband $5,000 a year_.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%B1a_Delmar