BIG_RAIN_THUNDERSTORM wrote on October 21, 2019 at 8:31 PM

Dan Carlin is kind of a "big man" historian which I dislike personally but he's obviously passionate about what he does. His voice can be a little grating don't tell him I said that

Blueprint for Armageddon I-VI is free rn

https://www.dancarlin.com/product-tag/world-war-one/

BIG_RAIN_THUNDERSTORM wrote on October 21, 2019 at 8:34 PM

He seems to admire Winston Churchill despite going over what a raging alcoholic bastard he was in his "inebriated history" episode. No comment on that. I do like the idea of podcasting about different historical figures who were absolutely off their tits, he mentions Dr. Feelgood, everybody's favorite bourgeois pharmacist

hollyhoppet OP wrote on October 22, 2019 at 5:58 PM

BIG_RAIN_THUNDERSTORM wrote on October 23, 2019 at 8:28 AM

well i read too many elder scrolls so podcasts are nice

plus now i know the most vanilla history takes possible, and i barely attended high school!

hollyhoppet OP wrote on October 23, 2019 at 3:08 PM

oh i meant ew at admiring winston churchill lol

BIG_RAIN_THUNDERSTORM wrote on October 23, 2019 at 8:33 PM

i figured, but if i asked for books and i got a reply which kinda parses as "listen to a chud podcast while the world dies" i'd be displeased👽

i get confused by a lot of weird takes without having a good background in shitty-but-popular historians. like imagine not knowing about the Black Book of Communism when somebody starts telling you Stalin was worse than Hitler. it's just easier to map their "tree of beliefs" as one of my professors once called it

also Revolutions podcast is pretty great I'm sure they've got some material on WWI events but they cover uprisings in general :) good luck in your quest for knowledge