Hello, I was wondering if anyone on the reddit could help me. I've been looking for Historical Debates and opposing opinions about whether or not Feild Marshall Erwin. Rommel was a morally just man, or just opinions or debates on Rommel would be a great start. If anybody knows it would be a magnificent help.

Always confused about what an exact definition or example would be

It always struck me as impossible that anyone could read a book a day. Was this something which was common in the 19th century? Did people have such a different relationship with books back then that this was a thing people did? Were books generally much shorter than today?

I know we have a magnificent book list on the sidebar, but those are categorized by subject matter and don't really distinguish between books which are fun to read and those which are essential. I was hoping people could recommend history books which are just entertaining.

Doesn't need to be about any particular period of history, but I'm just looking for suggestions for gift ideas (including gifts to myself!)

Here are some of my recommendations based on my own reading (note I'm not vouching for the quality of the history in these, and a few of them I actually think are probably not great history, but I really enjoyed reading them).

The Cleanest Race, B.R. Myers

The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Bawlf (probably bad history)

Endurance, Alfred Lansing

Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder

Stalingrad, Antony Beevor

Conquistador, Buddy Levy

The particular instance I'm thinking of is the sack of Rome by Italian troops during the wars of unification. How could the largely Catholic Italians fight against the armies of the Pope without making themselves, in their own eyes, enemies of God?

I mean you'd expect that people would be more protective of who they had sex with before the invention of effective birth control.

Deporting a person for his beliefs and ideologies seems like the opposite of American fundemental rights such as freedom of speech, how come the Justice Department ignored Americans basic rights? What caused so widespread fear that McCarthy could point fingers at whoever he choosed? Even the president?

Where did they come from, where did they get there ships, etc.?

Anywhere form the mid 19th century prior to WWI. I am having some trouble in finding books on the state of the combatants returning from these conflicts aside from small snippets of newspapers taken form around the time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Combatants from who fought for the opposing side during this time period would also be appreciated.

Why would the fear be there? Hallucinations possibly?

A noble's clothes may cost 100 times yours, but they are very much the same cut and style.

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I was recently researching the different nuclear programs of the world powers in WWII and found that Hitler and Heisenberg didn't operate at full power in their program in early 1942 even though they were pretty close in their stages of development compared to Project Manhattan for example. Here are some questions.

• Why?

• Did Hitler know the advantages he would have had with the bomb?

• Was Heisenberg intentionally slowing the progress because he recognized the actual power of the bomb?

Thank you

I want to make a video game about this and I want it to be as historically accurate as possible.

If I was to wake up as a knight in the first crusade, what would the details of my mission and journey be? what would I see daily, and what would my life consist of?

Going about your daily life, how violent and dangerous was life in a village or city?

From what I have read, expansion was always on the mind of the Japanese government. They tried to get China to agree with the Twenty One Demands during the first war, ignoring the United States Open Door Policy, and continuously tried to gain further control of China and the surrounding Pacific throughout the early to mid 1900's. (Right?)

I have read some articles stating that the Japanese tried to expand in order to be more economically safe, to be more respected, because they hated other races, etc.

What is the real story behind Japan's actions?