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    History Books

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted · Edited by Aubrey Maturin

    7 hours ago, velo army said:

    I'm too lazy to see if there's a thread for this. I think Pep started one ages ago, but Cannae mind.

    Anyhow. I'm really wanting to learn more about the Covenanters. What books have you lot read about them and which would you recommend?

    Also this thread could just be used for talking about cool history books you read.

     

    J k Hewison produced a weighty piece on the period, worth a look but heavy going.

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shirer is very good.

    A good depiction of life in the trenches is With a machine gun to Cambrai by George Coppard.

    If anyone prefers their history with a tinge of drama and a bit of fiction thrown in the works of Conn Iggulden are enjoyable.

    And if you go out walking I heartily recommend the rest is history podcast. 

    This isn't a bad one from my uni days if you fancy the french revolution.

    IMG_20240302_071558.thumb.jpg.b603c8c03f1211285ecca7fd03a9d880.jpg

    I've cunningly hidden my mills and boon collection.

    Enjoy, history is simply a magnificent subject.

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    The Cricket Thread

    in All Other Sports

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    4 minutes ago, peasy23 said:

    Yep, I get they want to play positively, bit sometimes you have to play the situation,  and not for the first time they failed miserably in that respect.

    The first time it happened you're like ok they will learn from that.

    Instead they keep doing it and they have thrown away a chance of winning this test 

    It's negligent from Stokes/Mccullum once again.

     

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