Grand unified books thread

[Scipio]

Just got The Sleepwalkers on the recommendation of my friend the history professor.

[Sheilbh]

Let me know how you find it. I almost picked it up yesterday.

Edit: I did love the same author's history of Prussia.

[garbon]

I don't think I ever finished the Prussia one. I remember repeatedly getting bored.

[Sheilbh]

I quite enjoyed it. I think it perked up a lot once it got past the Thirty Years War and we were moving on from the Margraviate of Brandenburg

I'm currently reading Peter Mandelson's memoir. Like all good ones I think it sometimes reveals more than the author intends.

[Kleves]

I really liked The Sleepwalkers. It definitely altered my views on who bears responsibility for WWI.

[Queequeg]

The detritus looked to be no more than a day old, the fruits and green leaved vegetables only now beginning to rot in the afternoon heat.

"Houses often looked drab from the outside because the Romans were more interested in interior decorations."

[Habbaku]

Anyone have any recommendations for 1848/Spring of Nations?  Both primers and in-depth studies are welcome.

  Languish has failed.

[Ideologue]

"Houses often looked drab from the outside because the Romans were more interested in interior decorations."

You're going to knock up an ugly Italian.

"As our knowledge of Tatar activities is based largely on the Russian chronicles, the danger of distortion is especially great."

I will buy a mail-order bride from Astrakhan, but she will not be all I was promised.

[Barrister]

The detritus looked to be no more than a day old, the fruits and green leaved vegetables only now beginning to rot in the afternoon heat.

"Houses often looked drab from the outside because the Romans were more interested in interior decorations."

"The glory days were about to return".

As if.

[Ed Anger]

The Blackout of 3132 provided the Capellan Confederation with the best opportunity it had ever had for reclaiming worlds it saw as stolen by Devlin Stone and the Republic.

Ok.

[mongers]

Ragnar took land west of Eoferwic, up in the hills.

So I'm gonna shag a woman called Eoferwic. 

But how did they know the nickname for my todger is Ragnar?

[garbon]

Playing this at work, I got - "Occasionally, the moderator will choose to take on a specific role in the focus group interview."

[garbon]

Ragnar took land west of Eoferwic, up in the hills.

So I'm gonna shag a woman called Eoferwic. 

But how did they know the nickname for my todger is Ragnar?

Actually says west of - so I'd look for someone in the proximity of a woman named Eoferwic.

[Grey Fox]

She threw a conscientious look around her, her face flaming scarlet with embarrassment.

[garbon]

She threw a conscientious look around her, her face flaming scarlet with embarrassment.