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Hey can we have a book suggestions thread? I'm looking for material about the development of military retinues through european history, particularly in the roman/byzantine period (bucellarii and shit) and during the renaissance.
Pic unrelated, just a good book about Venice if someone is interested.
bump for interest
Bump, I need something to read.
How do I into history?
>>393718
read the Private Life of Chairman Mao written by his doctor Li Zhisui
The 100 year old man.
>>395854
>I'm looking for material about the development of military retinues through european history
>The 100 year old man.
nigger what?
you talking about the whole atombomb thing? because that was made up
great book tho totally recommend it to anyone who wants a good read
>>393718
>military retinues
what do you mean by this?
>>395429
>How do I into history?
Cartoon History of the Universe, Cartoon History of the Modern World, Cartoon History of the United States.
>>393718
All of Jung Chang's works are pretty good. Dowager Cixi, though well-researched, is a really rose-tinted portrayal -- like, Jung Chang admitted that she fell in love with Cixi during the course of her research for the book, and it shows. Still good though, just keep in mind that it's not exactly "objective". One might even go so far as to say she wrote a book about her waifu, so keep that in mind.
Wild Swans is also good, and more objective, though it's set a lot more recently -- being, essentially, a biography of her grandmother, then her mother, then an autobiography of herself. But, again, it is pretty intensively researched, and provides pretty accurate (AFAIK) accounts of Pre-Maoist, Maoist, and Post-Maoist China.
speaking of books how good are cambridge history ones?
>>397530
Bucellarii, spatharioi and shit. You know, the development of bodyguards into small private standing armies.
