Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Asking for book recommendations on specific topics or periods of history
Newly published books and articles you're dying to read
Recent book releases, old book reviews, reading recommendations, or just talking about what you're reading now
Historiographical discussions, debates, and disputes
...And so on!
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
Can anyone recommend a book about the U-2 program and/or the U-2 Incident? Or a book on a related topic that features a section on the U-2 program/incident?
I am reading "The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World", recommended to me by u/Ananiujtha. Pretty amazing book for anybody who is interested in the period. Well sourced as well.
There was an interesting theory on the introduction, that Nazism might have its roots in the right-wing, anti-Bolshevik Russian ideologies that developed in the course of the Russian civil war. Sadly author does not follow up on that. I also made a post about this here.