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I love military history books, and historical military novels.
I also like some historical romances - Helen Susan Swift springs to mind as a light, but often thoughtful read.
Autobiographies and biographies of military men, particularly the lesser known are fascinating, and exploration memoirs of the 19th century.
I am looking for some books on the early colonial era in north america- non fiction - including the immediate prelude to the Revolutionary War, from a social rather than political point of view. Political commentaries are often too biased to be taken seriously.
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EvilEmily · F
i am weirdly obsessed with alternate history stories
chrisCA · M
@EvilEmily Yes. The "what ifs".
EvilEmily · F
@chrisCA yeah.. one of my favorites is the "southern victory" series... where the confederates win the war over a very small incident.. a message that didnt get there in time. and the series is by now in the mid 20th century and you find historical figures like churchill or lenin in similar but different roles... and events like world wars still happen but play out with completely different alliances and results...

for example the south winning means the uk and france get closer to it for the cotton, but the north becomes an allie of germany...
chrisCA · M
@EvilEmily Interesting. I read an article that a victorious South might have been allied with Nazi Germany because of their racial policies.
EvilEmily · F
@chrisCA well its all speculation.. but it is reasonable that the north cuts all ties to the uk when they continue trading with the south. and germany always opposed slavery