History degree holder here! Thank you for this list!! I did not study much of European or ancient history so this lists is amazing for me! Added most to my tbr
Wow just a few weeks in and you've nearly got the same number of subs I've accrued in 3 years! Good job and your editing is mostly superb (watch those time period sensitive clips!). Bloodlands is by far the grimmest book I've ever read (I'm a WW2 fanatic), Rise and Fall is great but not for casuals or beginners, I think you need to make that clear and you've piqued my interest in Prisoners of Geography. Also, Tuchmann is not a neutral observer -- at a time when nearly everyone complains about bias of some sort or another, she stands out as a prime example of real bias. She clearly hates Germans and everything Germanic and is not shy about telling you she is. You need to point that out for potential readers. An intriguing top ten, certainly.
8/12 And thanks for recommendations. If they are up to same level, they are on the list. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan - read, on bookshelf Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder - read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer - read, on the bookshelf of my brother Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - read, on bookshelf A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - read, audiobook in Finnish for educational purposes 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann - on shelf, (next to Pioneers of Globalization by Jorge Nascimento Rodriguez) Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall - read The Histories by Herodotus - read, on bookshelf
I am not really familiar with you and I am both happy and pleased that you recommended actual good history books and not the rantings of various political lunatics trying to rewrite history so that their historical heroes think like they do.
Reading Golden Road by William Dalrymple he tears part Silk Road concept(Which is a term coined in Nineteenth Century). Despite its modern popularity the idea of a Silk Road was completely unknown in ancient or medieval times: not a single ancient record, either Chinese or western, refers to its existence. Instead, it was invented as late as 1877 by a Prussian geo- grapher, Baron von Richthofen, who, while engaged in a geological survey of China, was charged with dreaming up a route for a railway linking Berlin with Beijing with a view to establishing German colonies and infrastructure projects in the region. This route he named die Seidens- traßen, 'the Silk Roads' - the first use of the term. (Source Golden Road by William Dalrymple)
History degree holder here! Thank you for this list!! I did not study much of European or ancient history so this lists is amazing for me! Added most to my tbr
Love to hear it! Thanks for being here ☺️
Wow just a few weeks in and you've nearly got the same number of subs I've accrued in 3 years! Good job and your editing is mostly superb (watch those time period sensitive clips!). Bloodlands is by far the grimmest book I've ever read (I'm a WW2 fanatic), Rise and Fall is great but not for casuals or beginners, I think you need to make that clear and you've piqued my interest in Prisoners of Geography. Also, Tuchmann is not a neutral observer -- at a time when nearly everyone complains about bias of some sort or another, she stands out as a prime example of real bias. She clearly hates Germans and everything Germanic and is not shy about telling you she is. You need to point that out for potential readers. An intriguing top ten, certainly.
I recommend Caro's biographies.
Shirer's book is excellent, probably the best of it's kind.
8/12
And thanks for recommendations. If they are up to same level, they are on the list.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan - read, on bookshelf
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder - read
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer - read, on the bookshelf of my brother
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - read, on bookshelf
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - read, audiobook in Finnish for educational purposes
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann - on shelf, (next to Pioneers of Globalization by Jorge Nascimento Rodriguez)
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall - read
The Histories by Herodotus - read, on bookshelf
I would add to this Antony Beevor: The Second World War.
A great overview - agreed
I am not really familiar with you and I am both happy and pleased that you recommended actual good history books and not the rantings of various political lunatics trying to rewrite history so that their historical heroes think like they do.
Reading Golden Road by William Dalrymple he tears part Silk Road concept(Which is a term coined in Nineteenth Century).
Despite its modern popularity the idea of a Silk Road was completely unknown in ancient or medieval times: not a single ancient record, either Chinese or western, refers to its existence. Instead, it was invented as late as 1877 by a Prussian geo- grapher, Baron von Richthofen, who, while engaged in a geological survey of China, was charged with dreaming up a route for a railway linking Berlin with Beijing with a view to establishing German colonies and infrastructure projects in the region. This route he named die Seidens- traßen, 'the Silk Roads' - the first use of the term. (Source Golden Road by William Dalrymple)
justa a heads up please do credit any footage that you use from others for any of your videos :) .