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> Honestly if you actually start researching WW1 and the lead up to it you discover many things that are counter to the typical WW1 you learn in school. I'm al

by JadeNB 6y ago

> Honestly if you actually start researching WW1 and the lead up to it you discover many things that are counter to the typical WW1 you learn in school. I'm always interested in such new perspectives. Do you have anything further to recommend (in addition to Towards the flame)?

nickik 6y ago
I have been studying WW1 for a long time so its kind difficult. A lot of new stuff, specially because of the 100 year just happened. Some revisionist stuff that was good, some that was less good. Some was just rewriting the old narrative and package if for modern audiences. A big narrative specially in the US is about Isolationism and that is why the Wealth of Nation failed. This is totally incorrect, see this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBI86s0oSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBI86s0oSQ I certainty don't agree with all of these, but these are all good about WW1 and Inter-War history. - July 1914: Countdown to War - The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War - Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I - The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 - The Russian Revolution: A New History - Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia - The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution - Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 - Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 - The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization
- JadeNB 6y ago
  I guess The Russian revolution is Pipes? That's the only one of these I've read. Thanks for the references!
  - nickik 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Revolution:_A_New_History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Revolution:_A_New_... It's Sean McMeekin. He spends time on some things that are often missed. But the Revolution is of course a huge topic.

by JadeNB 6y ago

nickik 6y ago

I have been studying WW1 for a long time so its kind difficult. A lot of new stuff, specially because of the 100 year just happened. Some revisionist stuff that was good, some that was less good. Some was just rewriting the old narrative and package if for modern audiences. A big narrative specially in the US is about Isolationism and that is why the Wealth of Nation failed. This is totally incorrect, see this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBI86s0oSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBI86s0oSQ I certainty don't agree with all of these, but these are all good about WW1 and Inter-War history. - July 1914: Countdown to War - The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War - Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I - The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 - The Russian Revolution: A New History - Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia - The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution - Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 - Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 - The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization

JadeNB 6y ago
I guess The Russian revolution is Pipes? That's the only one of these I've read. Thanks for the references!
- nickik 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Revolution:_A_New_History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Revolution:_A_New_... It's Sean McMeekin. He spends time on some things that are often missed. But the Revolution is of course a huge topic.