Top products from r/dancarlin
We found 28 product mentions on r/dancarlin. We ranked the 32 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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2. The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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Number of reviews: 1
3. Roosevelt to Reagan: A Reporter's Encounters With Nine Presidents
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Number of reviews: 1
4. Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation
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Number of reviews: 1
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5. The Voyage of Johannes de Plano Carpini
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Number of reviews: 1
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8. Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles)
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Number of reviews: 1
Modern Library
9. Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan
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Number of reviews: 1
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11. Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat
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Number of reviews: 1
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12. Caesar: The Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library)
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13. Multiethnic Japan
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14. War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
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Number of reviews: 1
War And Peace And War By Turchin Peter
15. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
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W W Norton Company
16. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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17. The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War
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Number of reviews: 1
The Landmark Julius Caesar The Gallic Wars and the Civil War
18. A Little History of the World (Little Histories)
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Yale University Press
While they're more historical fiction, I absolutely adored the Myth-o-Mania! series by Kate Mcmullan when I was a kid. I credit them with facilitating my interest in antiquity and Greece in particular. For a young reader they are written with enough humor to keep them interested and entertained while also providing an enough baseline information on greek mythology to still be educational.
On a second note, I took a children's literature class in college and decided to my make my final project a lesson plan to make history more interesting for child readers. In many ways I was piggy backing off Dan's approach to tell the 'interesting' side of history.
Inspired by the book Mau5 which I loved reading in high school, I tried to find a chronology of history using graphic novels. I think graphic novels are an interesting way to get children interested in reading, especially when they are so young.
Here is the list of graphic novels. Maybe you will find one interesting. If you want, I can PM you the whole project with my summaries of the books.
Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra- Haggard, H. Rider, Alfred Sundel, and Norman Nodel
Dark Ages
*The Dark Ages and the Vikings-Jeffrey, Gary, and Nik Spender.
Crusades
Crusades-Jeffrey, Gary, and Terry Riley.
Civil War
Gettysburg: The Graphic History of America's Most Famous Battle and Turning Point of the Civil War. Vansant, Wanye
Congo Civil War (Child Soldiers)
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War - Humphreys, Jessica Dee, Michel Chikwanine, and Claudia Dávila.
World War 1
True Stories of World War 1 - Nelson Yomtov and John Proctor
Civil Rights Movement
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography - Helfer, Andrew and Randy Duburke
The Holocaust*
Maus: A Survivor's Tale* - Spiegelman, Art
If you want to just get a taste of imperial Japan and some pretty interesting firsthand accounts, check out "inventing Japan" by Ian Buruma.
https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Japan-1853-1964-Library-Chronicles/dp/0812972864
If you want to get a bigger view of the condition japan was in before beginning their empire building, check out "Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan" by Mikiso Hane
https://www.amazon.com/Peasants-Rebels-Women-Outcastes-Underside/dp/0742525252
If you want an even bigger view of how and why Japan was treated differently from Germany after the war check out, "the wages of guilt" by Ian Buruma
https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Guilt-Memories-Germany-Japan-ebook/dp/B00YLQU0GS
I would recommend these three books if you want to get a better idea of the everyday life of what everyday life was like pre-war, mid-war, post-war.
If you want to get into the psychology of Japanese people, I would recommend "the Japanese self in cultural context" by Takie Sugiyama Lebra
https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Self-Cultural-Logic/dp/0824828402/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?keywords=the+Japanese+self&qid=1571829682&sr=8-12
Another interesting book to add after reading these would be, "multiethnic Japan" by John Lie. It points out the ripples of what Japan's empire building brought.
https://www.amazon.com/Multiethnic-Japan-John-Lie/dp/0674013581/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=multiethnic+Japan&qid=1571829847&sr=8-1
Check em out!
Agreed! This is a great book btw: https://www.amazon.com/Six-Frigates-Epic-History-Founding/dp/039333032X
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Yeah, it's also printed. Here's the link on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062868047/?coliid=I1TL1B0KYFYLUU&colid=30402EL2VVDSL&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Paperback and hardcover are both listed.
For anyone who would like to order it:
If you're interested in the topic of Japan's recovery post-WW2 you should check out Jared Diamond's new book Upheaval.
He discusses pre-modern Japan in one chapter and post-WW2 Japan in another at length.
Looks like he narrates the audiobook too: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07WDD6PXD/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1570684245&sr=8-2
Specifically he was referring to US naval power. In a previous episode he mentioned by name that "Jane's Fighting Ships" was source for his information. Pretty expensive.
I just googled and found this site which only begs more questions. How is North Korea rated to have double America's naval firepower. Anybody know whats up with this?
If you just go to Wikipedia you can sort by descending and see the US compared to the world total which is what Dan was talking about.
If you want a short introduction or a documentary its all up to you. But Luther is a 10 0000 word journey. A journey into a unique insight into the world that were before us, and indeed shaped the world that is today. Brand Luther is also a start.
E.H. Gombrich- "A Little History of the World"
I used use chapters of this book as supplementals when I taught middle school history. I really like it. I think it keeps to the subject, is well written, and is accessible to children. Only issue is that it's eurocentric, but you can't win them all.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067975153X/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-History-at-Extremes/dp/0062868047
Or on audible with Dan narrating, which is what I'm getting.
Read or listen to this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788
It's more complex than that but not simplistic at all.
I suggest this book
https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Rise-Fall-Empires/dp/0452288193?keywords=War+peace+and+war&qid=1537433428&sr=8-1&ref=mp_s_a_1_1
Perhaps start with this
https://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-Reagan-Reporters-Encounters-Presidents/dp/0060390670
Maybe sometime around his book release?
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https://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-History-at-Extremes/dp/0062868047/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dan+carlin&qid=1565309621&s=gateway&sr=8-1
For ww2, Antony Barbour is one of my favorite authors, and I'd recommend his books on dday and Stalingrad. For ancient history, get the Gallic wars by Caesar. He goes into extremely fine detail about all the major battles of the Gallic wars. I'd recommend getting a version that's both in Latin and translated. This is the one I have, it has Latin on the left and English on the right, so if you're confused by what its saying, just directly translate the Latin. Caesar was both a strategic and tactical genius, and was able to put that down on paper for us.
10/29, available for preorder now though! The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062868047/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_eR6IDb1KDCW45
Additional Links:
Supernova in the East I (1800s-1938 CE) - Direct Link, Remastered - 4:26
Supernova in the East II (1938-1941 CE) - Direct Link, Remastered - 3:54
A State of War - FDR Speech (1941 CE) - Extra Context - 0:03
Supernova in the East III (1941-1942 CE) - Direct Link, Remastered - 4:34
Supernova in the East IV (1942-1945 CE) - Preview - 0:01
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses - Book Link
The Hardcore History Omnibus Project - Post