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:
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.
I guess I’ll start
Would David Lister’s Forgotten Tanks and Guns of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s be a good and accurate purchase, given how recent investigations into topics covered in the book (namely mysterious Japanese heavy tanks) were proven to be at least partially wrong?
I'm once again asking for recommendations:
(1) Any recs for "urban legends" of old? I'm mostly looking for spooky stories about y'know cowboy apparitions, headless nuns, ghost ships, that sort of stuff.
(2) Any recs on ye olde Wild West fashion. Male or female, doesn't matter.
(3) Anything on early paleonthology efforts.
^(yeah I'm watching RDR2 Let's Plays, why do you ask?)
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions, you lovely pretzels.
For anyone who's read both The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence and Making China Modern by Klaus Mühlhahn, how would you compare them?
Does anyone have any recs on Simon Bolivar biographies?
Could someone recommend me something on the beginning of the Cold War (so 1946-48)? I need to do a bit of reading about this for an assignment, so I went here for an expert opinion on what books are the best.
Any of y’all got any suggested reading(s) on the early history of labor unions in the US? And another that specifically covers the early history of LIUNA?