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.
Buddy gave me *Authoring a PHD: How to Plan, Draft, Write & Finish A Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation* by Patrick Dunleavy. I suggest it to anyone in route to PHD. Best for someone early on in process, but even later, like me, it is very helpful.
Otto von Bismarck and Realpolitik recommendations?
I'm looking for recommendations on the history of the Turkish Republic. Preferably an overall synthesis which goes up to the modern day.