What recent history books have you bought?

I'm curerntly reading revolution and counter revolution in chile.

 

The last one I got was "The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamuri" By Mark Ravina

 

Oh, and that book about Che Guevara's early years, "The Motorcycle Diaries", I think?

 

A Crack in the Edge of the World- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester and Andrew Jackson by H.W. Brands

 

Very well said

 

Blondel's Song - The capture, imprisonment and ransom of Richard the Lionheart - by David Boyle. Christmas gift from my daughter.

 

Most recently I came by "Homage to Catalonia" which is about the spanish civil war, george orwell's account of it. It was inspiring and I liked it a lot!

I don't ever really buy books but there are many history textbooks laying around my house because my roomate takes a lot of those classes in school. I sift through them but I really don't read as much as I should, especially for being surrounded by all this good material.

 

Howard Zinn rocks . . David Halberstam's _THe Children_, about students in the civil rights movement in Nashville is brilliant and a must read for anyone interested in nonviolent struggle

 

Spartan Army; Elite S.; v.66
Sekunda, Nicholas; Hook, Richard

Expedition of Cyrus; Oxford World's Classics S.
Xenophon; Waterfield, Robin

Hannibal
Lancel, Serge; Nevill, Antonia

Looking forward to reading them all.

 

Reprint of Carl Eduard Vehse's book The Dynasties of Hessen (Kiepenheuer Verlag)


Pretty interesting. Did you know that Philipp the Magnificent of Hesse got a papal edict allowing him to have a second wife (Margarete von der Saal) on the grounds that he had two penii? He argued that his unusual bodily equipment was a justified reason, based on the Second Book of Moses, to have an additional wife to help, uh...., satisfy his extraordinary needs.