The History Book Club discussion

We are glad you joined us Tracy. This truly international book club has everything for the history buff.

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by Barbara W. Tuchman



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Hi Tracy, welcome to the group we are glad to have you with us! If you enjoy discovering then you came to the right place to add to your to-read. Lots here to discuss with others. We look forward to your participation.

Welcome Tracy, you came to the right spot.

Thank you all for the kind welcome!!!

Welcome Tracy to the global History Club. Join right in searching for books and information.

Welcome Regina, Iris, Samrat, and Tracy. It's great to have new people interested in history.

Hi Tracy, welcome to the group.
Apart from all the fascinating discussions on history we also have quite a few fine threads on music - all kinds from all places.
Come and take a look/listen if you like.
Best,
André

Oh...I definitely will love the music selections! Thanks for the info!

Hi all,
I'm Bart, 40+ years old, living in Catalonia (Spain) but originally from the Netherlands.
I'm not a history buff, but look forward to all the suggestions and comments coming from within the club.
One of the first history books I really liked was Millennium by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, mainly because it gave such a different perspective. Another favorite was Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.
So (at the moment) I'm more into the popular history I suppose, but then you have to start somewhere, no? ;-)

Living in the center of Catalonia I would appreciate suggestions from members for some background reading on the Spanish/Catalan history. My Spanish isn't good enough to read the local accounts, and most is heavily biased being written by the conquerors. Catalonia is currently trying to become independent again from Spain, and it's an interesting (hot) topic over here.

Oh, and apart from history I like to read about the (possible) future, so I also read a lot of SF!

by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

by Jared Diamond

Welcome, Bart. I’m glad you could join us and I know you will fit right in.

You have fully mastered the book post with an A++, but still please take a moment to be familiar with other links. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo (when available) and author's link at the very bottom of the post after your text. Because it is on the bottom, it calls the reader's attention to the book/author and increases the readability of your posts.

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by Richard Holbrooke

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So glad you found our truly international book club, Bart. I think that you will find much here that will pique your interest. Take some time to browse the topics and join in the discussions/book recommendations. Enjoy!!
BTW, you did a great job with the book citations!!

Welcome Bart, hope you enjoy the discussions and many book recommendations.

Glad you found us, Bart

Welcome Bart. You're sure to find some good suggestions for books here.

Hi Bart, welcome to the group.
Where are you from? I grew up in Breda.

Apart from all the fascinating discussions on history we also have quite a few fine threads on music - all kinds from all places.
Come and take a look/listen if you like.
Best,
André

Hello everyone,

My name is Dave. I'm a 49-year-old project manager living in Lancaster, PA, USA. Looking forward to being part of the group, getting some recommendations, etc. My particular interest is the American Civil War, although I've read histories and biographies from other eras as well.

Thanks!

Hello Dave, and welcome, we are glad to have you as a member. With your interests I am sure you will find much here to discuss and explore.

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by Timothy Egan

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Thanks and glad you joined us.

Hi, David, welcome to the HBC.

Hi David, welcome to the group.
Apart from all the fascinating discussions on history we also have quite a few fine threads on music - all kinds from all places.
Come and take a look/listen if you like.
Best,
André

Welcome David to the global History Club.

Welcome Dave. Check out the group's topics, there's lots of interesting stuff here.

Glad you found us, Dave. You will find some Civil War buffs here..........as well as lovers of all things history.

Hello.

I'm an avid reader of history (my other main interest is probably literary fiction and nonfiction) and for me it began when I was kid (in the very late 60s and early 70s) with a whole series of youth-oriented biographies of founding fathers (and founding mothers like Betsy Ross), presidents, generals, and other cultural figures. We checked them out from the school library and my friend and I would have contests to see who could read them fastest. They had blue covers.

That turned into a Civil War fascination (my dad and I would visit battlefields within driving distance of the Washington, D.C. area where I grew up) and then somehow I also became very interested in art the history of art as well as literature. (I wanted and tried to be a painter into my twenties.) Then that somehow expanded into an interest in the history of ideas, science, etc. So I like *all* that stuff now.

Hard not to mainly be thinking about politics these days though!

Anyway, greetings. Looking forward to participating.

Welcome, John. Great story, thanks for sharing.

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Robert A. Caro

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John, great introduction! We are glad to have you and hope you enjoy participating in the many discussions and book recommendations going on among the members. Please jump in!

Welcome John to the worldwide History Club full of books. Your passion for reading, history and absorbing knowledge comes through as you continue to soar to a fulfilling life.

Hello, I'm also a new member. I studied history at university, so have obviously been interested in the subject for a long time. I'm glad to have found a like minded place to discuss history. As much as I like military history, It would be great to discuss other types of history such as social history and cultural history.
Anyway, enough of my yakkin'. I look forward to posting here, and becoming involved in historical debate.
I like American and German history these days, having exhausted most of the British stuff.

Welcome, R.M.F. Glad you found us.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you are ready to cite a book. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link at the very bottom of the post after your text. Because it is on the bottom, it calls the reader's attention to the book/author and increases the readability of your posts.

This is how a book should look:

Robert A. Caro

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a few moments to read the orientation:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

And our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us moderators. I look forward to your postings.

Welcome R.M.F., glad to have you with us. There are many topic threads to explore, please don't hesitate to join in the discussions.

Thanks for the nice welcome.

Welcome John and R.M.F. I'm sure you'll have a great time here.

So glad you joined us John and RMF. This is the place for all things history. Please browse the threads and join in. We look forward to your thoughts and book recommendations.

Welcome R.M.F. to the global History Club. We are glad to have you.

Hi John and RMF, welcome to the group.
Apart from all the fascinating discussions on history we also have quite a few fine threads on music - all kinds from all places.
Come and take a look/listen if you like.
Best,
André

Thanks for the welcome. I must admit all these different threads are a bit daunting, but it's all part of the fun. Glad to be here.

R.M.F wrote: "Thanks for the welcome. I must admit all these different threads are a bit daunting, but it's all part of the fun. Glad to be here."

As an assistant moderator I agree with your daunting comment! It's a fun maze that members enter, muddle around and hopefully find the exit back to the book they are reading.

It takes a bit of practice RMF but you will get the hang of it. We have many threads for history and music, and some for just chatting with other members. It is a great club with many learned members.

Hello, I am Mitch from KY. Please excuse my brevity and typos as much of my internet consumption is via my phone...and I have fat thumbs (GoodReads android app is not bad, btw). I have very eclectic reading interests. Nonfiction intrests trends to pre20th C history, anthropoloy/archaeology; fiction usually hovers around hard SF and mysteries of any flavor. My extreme commute has drawn me to podcasts, audiobooks and digital coursework suitable for downloading. Looking forward to the group.

A warm welcome to you, Mitch. Lots of good things here for the history lover.

For this club as you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment.
It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post.

This is how a book you mention should look:

by William L. Shirer



More information can be found here:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2......

Take a moment to read our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5......

and the orientation to get you started:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1......

Apart from all the fascinating discussions on history we also have quite a few fine threads on music - all kinds from all places.
Come and take a look/listen if you like.

If you have any questions feel free to ask any of the moderators. We look forward to your posts.

Welcome, Mitch. No worries, many of us are mobile these days.

Welcome Mitch, glad you found us and hope you enjoy and participate in the discussions.

Hi Mitch, welcome to the group.
Apart from all the fascinating discussions on history we also have quite a few fine threads on music - all kinds from all places.
Come and take a look/listen if you like.
Best,
André

Welcome Mitch. It's great to have you here. Enjoy!

Hello there! Glad to find this book group. I am interested in World War II history, particularly in the areas of labor and social movements. I am looking forward to exploring all the various subgroups here; this looks very well organized.

All the best,
Sonya

Welcome, Sonya. Glad you could join us.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you are ready to cite a book. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link at the very bottom of the post after your text. Because it is on the bottom, it calls the reader's attention to the book/author and increases the readability of your posts.

This is how a book should look:

Robert A. Caro

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a few moments to read the orientation:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

And our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us moderators. I look forward to your postings.

Hello Sonya, hope you enjoy the discussions and find some good book recommendations.

Welcome Sonya to the History Club. We're glad you joined us. During WWII there was certainly plently going on overseas as well as back home.

Welcome, Sonya..........this is an international book club and there are many resources available for your areas of interest. Glad you joined us!

Welcome Sonya. We're so glad you're here. I know you'll find lots to interest you.

Hi Sonya, welcome to the group.
Apart from all the fascinating discussions on history we also have quite a few fine threads on music - all kinds from all places.
Come and take a look/listen if you like.
Best,
André