After having only read a couple of key sections for thesis research years ago, I finally started reading Shattered Sword in its entirety this week (after having finished Command and Control, an excellent book on nuclear weapon safety and accidents during the Cold War).

So I just wanted to share what is probably my favorite sentence that I've ever seen written in an academic history book.

In regards to the IJN's plan for the Midway operation, "It is necessary now to turn to an examination of Yamamoto's operational plan as it emerged in its final form, a task for which the reader would be well advised to pour a rather tall glass of spirits beforehand."

So I am a little obsessed with England in 1819-1820 and trying to understand why there was no real attempt at insurrection/rebellion/revolution at this time. Between Peterloo (August), the Six Acts (December), and the death of George III/the ascension of the much-hated George IV (January) it seems like the timing could not have been better for the radicals to make a bold move. Yet aside from some halfhearted assassination attempts (which seem to have partially fomented by the government in order to flush out violent radicals and perhaps justify their harsh response), no move was made. It's just amazing to me that hundreds of thousands of very passionate reformers were held at bay for decades awaiting the slow process of proper legislation.

If this is silly, please stop me. I would be grateful if there were some concise explanation that I've somehow missed because I'm not reading the right things. Anyway, per the suggestion of /u/vertexoflife I've been devouring Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 this week. It's fascinating reading about the many different leaders among the radicals, and especially the personal tensions between them (which almost certainly contributed to a lack of unity). I'm very curious to read more of the Home Office records from 1819, and anything that examines just how competently the government dealt with this 'radical problem,' or if there was any indication to them that open rebellion was not as imminent as was feared.

Suggestions for further reading would be very welcome.

Looking for more good books, but don't want to purchase a dud since I currently lack access to an academic library. Has anyone read, and subsequently recommends, any of the following?

Calloway's The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities

Greer's The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America

Richter's The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization

Merell's Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier

Gleach's Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures

What is the subreddit's opinion regarding the Osprey series? I have only read those pertaining to Roman, Late Roman, and Byzantine military forces, but I've found them highly informative and seemingly well-researched, with much engagement of primary and secondary sources.

Ive been working on putting together a youtube series around different armored vehicals from WWI to around 1950~, bringing lovly history into new media!.

With that being said and the coming release of Fury the movie there has been an influx of books around WWII military vehicales hitting my local bookstore! Very exciting as I was able to pick up:

Fletcher, David, David Willey and Mike Hayton. Tiger Tank Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I Ausf. E(SdKfz 181) Model Owners' Workshop Manual: An insight into the history, development, production and role of the most feared battle tank of the Second World War. Bridgestone: Hanyes. 2011.

Fletcher, David. Great War Tank Mark IV Model Owners' Workshop Manual: An insight into the history, development, production and role of themain British Army tank of the First World War. Bridgestone: Haynes. 2013.

Both offer great photos and blueprints from the bovington tank museum (The Tank Museum)'s archives. That coupled with production, roles, and the restoration of these tanks provide a unique insight of engineering to both history and preservation of these machines.

Very special about the Tiger book as well, is that it shows the upkeep of Tiger 131, the last running one in the world which also appears in the movie. Just great reads, and amazing photos and insight from the restoration crews.

Also if anyone knows of some great books around the evolution of ammunition of artillery and mounted guns, please do not hesitate to post titles!

Just finished John S. Gray's Centennial Campaign: The Sioux War of 1876. Foreword by Robert M. Utley, who has called this the best work on the subject.

Very good overview spanning the entire scope of the campaign from the decision stage in fall of 1875 to the campaign's conclusion a full year later. Particularly interesting in the two-part book are the final seven chapters, which closely examine the Little Bighorn in matters ranging from medical service at the battlefield, cavalry movement timeline, chronology of Indian movements that led them to eventually camp along the river, Indian population with specific attention to winter roamers and summer migrations, and the ultimate size and strength of the village on the Little Bighorn as it stood on June 25, 1876.

Likely diving into Gray's second book, Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed next.

Currently in early stages of research for a possible book dealing with Custer and Grant interactions and other ties that influenced the lives of both men.

After an argument with a friend, I've gone on a Prussian history kick recently. I'm about halfway through Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. It's interesting to see an attempt at a empathtic, if not downright sympathetic protrayal of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

Also, we desperately need to update the book list for Early Modern Germany.