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Anonymous Sat Apr 13 09:43:31 2019 No.12927864 [Reply] [Original]

I asked /his/ but also wanted to ask you guys since /lit/ is more book oriented.

I am starting to become rather fond of history and want to learn about all sorts of people in this thread can you please post people you think everyone should have read about? And recommendations for someone with a new interest in history(mostly the biggest events but also small ones you enjoyed)

Anti-/lit/ !N4bnZoKwfU Sat Apr 13 09:52:26 2019 No.12927901

Don Luis is one of the most interesting characters in history. He was a Powhatan Indian who saw Mexico City and met Charles V in Spain, single handedly ended Spanish claims to the Chesapeake, and may have even participated in fighting the British at Jamestown. Some say he was the same person as the nearly hundred year old Opechancanough, brother of Chief Powhatan.

I read about him in "A Land as God Made It" which is a very exciting (but still scholarly and restrained) history of Jamestown. Highly recommend it!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 11:24:08 2019 No.12928235 >>12927864 Andrew Roberts' biography on Napoleon is fantastic

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:38:08 2019 No.12928713 As a Brazilian my favorite event in history was the Canudos war. Written with perfection in the book Os sertões.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:53:44 2019 No.12928773 >>12928235 Seconding this.

Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:55:30 2019 No.12928783

>István Deák - The Lawful Revolution
This one is a biography of Louis Kossuth, but it's also a really good monograph on one of the biggest revolts during the 1848 "spring of nations".
It deals with the initial success and then crushing of the Hungarian revolution at the hands of the Empire of Russia and the Empire of Austria.
It's a good book, even if the subject itself is a bit obscure.

I'd also recommend Caesar's "On the Civil War". It's fun to read, and it's a "big event" too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 15:35:27 2019 No.12929166 >>12927864 KNIFE FIGHTING GAUCHOS

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:05:44 2019 No.12929267 bump

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