[Tirinal]

I've been on one of my historical binges lately, having gotten somewhat tired of modern fiction. Thought we could get a thread going if there are any history voyeurs in the audience. Author leads are welcome, as always.

I just reread Shirer's infamous Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which is fun from a purely literary perspective even if it's riddled with fallacies. Crappy historian, decent war reporter. I also finished Beevor's Stalingrad, which is probably the best account recently written. It's a very British way of looking at it, but it's still among the best. I'm currently reading through Makers of Modern Strategy, which is an edited set of classical essays on warfare development by players like Machiavelli, Clausewitz and Liddell Hart. Good introduction to the length and breadth of tactical evolution and classy enough to make fun of Napoleon in the editor's introduction.