I’d like to recommend a book if you haven’t already read it. It’s called No Ordinary Time and it’s about FDR & Eleanor Roosevelt during the ww2 events. Less focus on war & more on their home life / what day to day life was like. Can be dry but fascinating read
I'm so hyped for the Polis book, I hope I don't set the expectations too high lol. It's not very often a potential seminal work of Greek history comes around
If you don't mind I'd love to know what the books you're reading about the Ancient Greek Olympics you mentioned! Sounds interesting! Thanks for sharing your recs - as always I've now got to go put these on my TBR :)
No problem. One is The Crown Games of Ancient Greece by Lunt and the other is The First Physical Culturists by Daulat. I talked about them a bit more in my previous currently reading video. I've also read The Naked Olympics by Perettet and The Ancient Olympics by Spivey. ruclips.net/video/dRg8lzIH_zE/видео.html
Great video! Just purchased "The Enlightenment" book. @4:30 you mention the name Didaro? Spelling? I too am currently trying to learn more about this period of history.
Awesome, I hope you like it. The name is Denis Diderot. He wrote some plays and novels, but became most well known as the editor of the monumental Encyclopedie. This work probably deserves its own history as well haha
Thank you for the video. I added three books to my list, and that is only because I've read 'Revolutionary Spring' earlier this year. Thanks for the inspiration.
@@TriumphalReads Christopher Clark is a great historian. I've read Sleepwalkers, Iron Kingdom and Revolutionary Spring so far. Revolutionary Spring is very good in explaining how the reactionary regimes after the Napoleonic wars came to their end and how the revolutions of '48 struggeled with two goals 'identity' and 'liberty'. Happy reading.
@@TriumphalReads 918 text and the rest is endnotes and a fascinating bibliography. The book is printed on high quality paper that weighs a ton. It is a great read although at one point I felt I was sinking in too much detailed information. Yet the time invested in reading the entire thing was well worth it. I'm giving myself a pat on the back because I was able to accomplish this immediately after reading The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki (1175 pages). In March I read The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine (980 pages) so I can truly say that 2024 has been the YEAR OF THE MAMMOTHS!
@katherinedote2324 it does seem to be the year of the mammoths for a lot of us! Congrats on the others as well. House of Government is one I've looked at as well but decided against it for the time being just because I had recently read the Soviet Century mammoth haha. Did you like that one as well? I'll definitely be getting the Kaldellis book at some point for sure
@@TriumphalReads The House of Government is definitely my "book of the year". It turned out to be so much more than I had expected. I actually cried at the end, something that has never happened to me after reading a history book. Stalin destroyed so much talent.
I’d like to recommend a book if you haven’t already read it. It’s called No Ordinary Time and it’s about FDR & Eleanor Roosevelt during the ww2 events. Less focus on war & more on their home life / what day to day life was like. Can be dry but fascinating read
I've read very little comparatively on ww2 so I'll add it to the list, thanks for the rec!
Both the History of Philosophy and the Polis books looks especially interesting
I'm so hyped for the Polis book, I hope I don't set the expectations too high lol. It's not very often a potential seminal work of Greek history comes around
Yasssss. PUP coming in clutch.
Ngl the Polis one I have a good feeling about as something special
If you don't mind I'd love to know what the books you're reading about the Ancient Greek Olympics you mentioned! Sounds interesting!
Thanks for sharing your recs - as always I've now got to go put these on my TBR :)
No problem. One is The Crown Games of Ancient Greece by Lunt and the other is The First Physical Culturists by Daulat. I talked about them a bit more in my previous currently reading video. I've also read The Naked Olympics by Perettet and The Ancient Olympics by Spivey. ruclips.net/video/dRg8lzIH_zE/видео.html
@@TriumphalReads thanks for sharing!!
With that Polis book, you looked like a little kid who just got the best Christmas present ever:)
Yeah ngl it's probably the one I've most looked forward to having, besides some gifts I've received, in a long time haha
Wow! That Enlightenment book is massive. I'm sure it's brilliant though
About halfway, some chapters are better than others but I'm glad I'm reading it as I'm learning a lot for sure
Great video! Just purchased "The Enlightenment" book. @4:30 you mention the name Didaro? Spelling? I too am currently trying to learn more about this period of history.
Awesome, I hope you like it. The name is Denis Diderot. He wrote some plays and novels, but became most well known as the editor of the monumental Encyclopedie. This work probably deserves its own history as well haha
Thank you for the video. I added three books to my list, and that is only because I've read 'Revolutionary Spring' earlier this year. Thanks for the inspiration.
No problem! How did you like Revolutionary Srping? I've heard his Sleepwalkers book is great but I haven't read anything of his yet
@@TriumphalReads Christopher Clark is a great historian. I've read Sleepwalkers, Iron Kingdom and Revolutionary Spring so far. Revolutionary Spring is very good in explaining how the reactionary regimes after the Napoleonic wars came to their end and how the revolutions of '48 struggeled with two goals 'identity' and 'liberty'. Happy reading.
@@jorgschumacher945 awesome glad to hear good praise for it
Solid picks
Thanks! Just checked out one of your vids and subbed
@@TriumphalReads much appreciated! Looking forward to being book broa
@@Lifeonbooks awesome!
Some excellent suggestions there. I've been looking at 'The Enlightenment' recently and it looks a worthy investment.
Great content in these clips.
Yeah, it took a while but helped me understand the era much better so I feel it was worth it.
Hi Justin. I have Revolutionary Spring and The Hero's Way (Garibaldi 1849) lined up for Q4, thanks to my local library.
Nice, apparently we're on a similar reading wavelength haha. I'm hoping Revolutionary Spring pans out to be a great read
Hi Justin. I just finished The New Roman Empire by Anthony Kaldellis. It's excellent and definitely weighs in as a "mammoth". Have you read it?
It's on my list haha. A few people on the historathon discord showed it. It's about 1100 pages right?
@@TriumphalReads 918 text and the rest is endnotes and a fascinating bibliography. The book is printed on high quality paper that weighs a ton. It is a great read although at one point I felt I was sinking in too much detailed information. Yet the time invested in reading the entire thing was well worth it. I'm giving myself a pat on the back because I was able to accomplish this immediately after reading The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki (1175 pages). In March I read The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine (980 pages) so I can truly say that 2024 has been the YEAR OF THE MAMMOTHS!
@katherinedote2324 it does seem to be the year of the mammoths for a lot of us! Congrats on the others as well. House of Government is one I've looked at as well but decided against it for the time being just because I had recently read the Soviet Century mammoth haha. Did you like that one as well? I'll definitely be getting the Kaldellis book at some point for sure
@@TriumphalReads The House of Government is definitely my "book of the year". It turned out to be so much more than I had expected. I actually cried at the end, something that has never happened to me after reading a history book. Stalin destroyed so much talent.
@katherinedote2324 oof. Yeah for sure. Well that moves it up the tbr quite a bit then, thanks!