Grand unified books thread

[Maladict]

Ordered hardcover versions of Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. My paperbacks are still in decent order, but I would like some nicer copies.

I recently upgraded some classics. It's the civilized thing to do.

Well the bougie thing to do. Buying additional copies of something you already have...

Replacing them with better versions, rather than getting additional copies of the same thing.
Not entirely unlike upgrading a computer or phone.

I suppose you could see that as a middle class thing to do, not sure what your point is though.

Pointing out that 'civilised' is a rather elitist description.

No contest there

[crazy canuck]

Well, the books were gone, which means either someone took them, or someone threw them away. I like to think the former is the case.

LOL and at the half, it's Hobbes 7, Rousseau 0

[Tamas]

I have been barked into here by garbon (he is most annoying when he is right). Can anyone recommend me a good book on the Spanish Succession War? I am not looking for a detailed log, more like a good overview and narrative.

[Ed Anger]

No

[CountDeMoney]

MSNBC's Lockdown: San Quentin

[Eddie Teach]

Is this one of those 18th century wars?

[Syt]

I have been barked into here by garbon (he is most annoying when he is right). Can anyone recommend me a good book on the Spanish Succession War? I am not looking for a detailed log, more like a good overview and narrative.

https://www.google.at/search?q=books+on+war+of+spanish+succession&oq=books+war+of+spanish&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.3279j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[celedhring]

I have been barked into here by garbon (he is most annoying when he is right). Can anyone recommend me a good book on the Spanish Succession War? I am not looking for a detailed log, more like a good overview and narrative.

https://www.google.at/search?q=books+on+war+of+spanish+succession&oq=books+war+of+spanish&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.3279j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Falkner's book is not a great book. Then again there's not much in English on this conflict, and it might be the best of what's there.

[Habbaku]

John A. Lynn's "The Wars of Louis XIV" isn't solely devoted to the War of Spanish Succession, but covers it in decent detail. Since the war is the climax of Louis' reign, reading the rest of the work should give you a solid background to the lead-up from a French perspective.

[Malthus]

This book by Charles Spencer is pretty entertaining for the Blenheim campaign and Marlborough/Prince Eugene of Savoy, very readable: 

https://www.amazon.com/Blenheim-Battle-Europe-Phoenix-Press/dp/0304367044

[Tamas]

Thank you all

[Gups]

This book by Charles Spencer is pretty entertaining for the Blenheim campaign and Marlborough/Prince Eugene of Savoy, very readable: 

https://www.amazon.com/Blenheim-Battle-Europe-Phoenix-Press/dp/0304367044

Seconded. Surprisingly good.

[celedhring]

John A. Lynn's "The Wars of Louis XIV" isn't solely devoted to the War of Spanish Succession, but covers it in decent detail. Since the war is the climax of Louis' reign, reading the rest of the work should give you a solid background to the lead-up from a French perspective.

I haven't read it but you aren't the first one I hear recommending that book.

[Habbaku]

John A. Lynn's "The Wars of Louis XIV" isn't solely devoted to the War of Spanish Succession, but covers it in decent detail. Since the war is the climax of Louis' reign, reading the rest of the work should give you a solid background to the lead-up from a French perspective.

I haven't read it but you aren't the first one I hear recommending that book.

I've only read two books in the series that it's in (Modern Wars in Perspective)--the second book being "The Seven Years War in Europe"--but I've greatly enjoyed them both. I will probably be making my way through others in the series at a more rapid pace.

[Habbaku]

Correction--upon browsing the rest of the books in the series, I've apparently read two others. Charles Esdaile's "The Wars of Napoleon" was really, really good.