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Re: Books?

Post by dualstow » Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:30 am

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Did you read Freedom?
Too many books.
I’ve been reading The Koreas by Theodore Yoo. It covers North and South, back and forth, chronologically. Pretty good.
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Re: Books?

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Get it free here
Vinny
As you said free .. do not know if I am allowed to post it here (though worth a try ;) but one of the best free book sites I've found is pdfdrive.com
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Vil wrote:
Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:28 am

vnatale wrote:
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Get it free here
Vinny


As you said free .. do not know if I am allowed to post it here (though worth a try ;) but one of the best free book sites I've found is pdfdrive.com


Thanks! Looks good...

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Re: Books?

Post by Kriegsspiel » Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:24 am

On the topic of WW I

All Quiet On The Western Front by Remarque
Storm Of Steel by Junger
World War One by Stone
1917 (movie) by Mendes
Hardcore History: Blueprint For Armageddon (podcast) by Dan Carlin
The Great War by Hart
World War I by SLA Marshall
A Storm in Flanders by Groom
To End All Wars by Hochschild
The Weimar Republic by Snyder
A History Of The Weimar Republic by Hanson & Waite
Germany’s Aims In The First World War by Fischer
Germany And The Two World Wars by Hillgruber
The Beauty And The Sorrow by Englund
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Re: Books?

Post by dualstow » Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:52 am

Just ordered ‘Empire of Silver’
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Re: Books?

Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:05 pm

This was on my reading list, too. Good looking out.
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Kriegsspiel wrote:
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This was on my reading list, too. Good looking out.
I found it because of that supchina site you linked to.
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Re: Books?

Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue Jan 18, 2022 7:45 pm

I know.
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Re: Books?

Post by vnatale » Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:53 pm

About to start reading this one. Anyone else familiar with it / read it?

Debt: The First 5,000 Years Hardcover – July 12, 2011
by David Graeber

https://www.amazon.com/Debt-The-First-5 ... l_huc_item

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems€”to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods€”that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the a
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