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Started by Kleves, January 13, 2012, 04:10:39 PM

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Which is your favorite war?

Punic Wars
3 (8.1%)
Other Ancient War
4 (10.8%)
Hundred Years' War
2 (5.4%)
Other Medieval War
0 (0%)
Thirty Years War
1 (2.7%)
Other Early Modern War
2 (5.4%)
Napoleonic Wars
2 (5.4%)
American Civil War
4 (10.8%)
World War I
5 (13.5%)
World War II
12 (32.4%)
Other Modern War
2 (5.4%)

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Josephus

#30
January 13, 2012, 07:48:20 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 13, 2012, 06:19:34 PM
Quote from: Josephus on January 13, 2012, 04:41:30 PM
I'm ashamed to admit I know so little about this. PBS recently had a decent documentary about it and I found it quite interesting. I do need to pick up a book or two.

Read http://www.amazon.com/Amateurs-Arms-Military-History-Campaigns/dp/0306806533

By far the most interesting book I have read on the topic, and while Elting does have his jones for Winfield Scott (and his knife out for Andrew Jackson), he is very even-handed in his treatment of the campaigns.  He is big on explaining why, not just what.  Plus, he was just a natural storyteller.

Thanks. Short listed.
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Razgovory

#31
January 13, 2012, 07:50:33 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 13, 2012, 06:40:13 PM
The Hundred Years War, for the sheer number of cultural references and tropes it inspired.

Like what?  "War without Mustard is like sausage without fire"?  I may have gotten that one wrong.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

#32
January 13, 2012, 09:03:23 PM
The American Civil War is by far my favorite.
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Octavian

#33
January 14, 2012, 05:17:49 AM
The Punic wars, Alexanders campaigns, Napoleon and WWII
If you let someone handcuff you, and put a rope around your neck, don't act all surprised if they hang you!

- Eyal Yanilov.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.

- Bruce Lee

CountDeMoney

#34
January 14, 2012, 05:49:12 AM
Quote from: grumbler on January 13, 2012, 07:13:38 PM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on January 13, 2012, 06:32:43 PM
:thumbsup:  Added to the wishlist.  Have any suggestions on the F&I War?

Still looking for the readable and comprehensive account myself.   :(

Maybe not as comprehensive as one would like for the entire war, I totally enjoyed Montcalm And Wolfe: The French And Indian War by Francis Parkham.  A bit dated and a little tough to slog through at times, though. 
Grumbler's probably already read it though.

CountDeMoney

#35
January 14, 2012, 05:57:05 AM
I am fascinated by the war histories of the Revolutions--American, but especially French and Russian--but I find myself more and more interested in the ACW as I get older.

I go through phases, though:  I was on a Spanish Civil War reading kick for some time, now I'm all about Victorian-era British conflict in Africa and India.  Next will probably be the Italian Wars of Independence, who knows.

WW2 is still the mainstay, though.

Syt

#36
January 14, 2012, 06:04:59 AM
WW1 with its build up and aftermath. Not only militarily, but also politically and socially.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Martinus

#37
January 14, 2012, 11:34:52 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 13, 2012, 07:50:33 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 13, 2012, 06:40:13 PM
The Hundred Years War, for the sheer number of cultural references and tropes it inspired.

Like what?  "War without Mustard is like sausage without fire"?  I may have gotten that one wrong.

I wish you weren't so passive-aggressive in your trolling.

Razgovory

#38
January 14, 2012, 11:56:18 AM
Quote from: Martinus on January 14, 2012, 11:34:52 AM


I wish you weren't so passive-aggressive in your trolling.

Just tell me what you meant you fucking asshole.

Happier now?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

PDH

#39
January 14, 2012, 12:24:04 PM
I wouldn't call Raz passive-aggressive. Rather, I would call him tangentially-aggressive, in that he attacks openly but along a new path that often makes little or no sense and seems far off the mark sometimes.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Iormlund

#40
January 14, 2012, 12:24:16 PM
Trojan War.

Josephus

#41
January 14, 2012, 12:28:26 PM
The Great Seige of  1565
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Oexmelin

#42
January 14, 2012, 12:45:23 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 14, 2012, 05:49:12 AMMaybe not as comprehensive as one would like for the entire war, I totally enjoyed Montcalm And Wolfe: The French And Indian War by Francis Parkham.

:bleeding:

QuoteA bit dated

"A bit" ?  :yeahright:

Though it has tons of problems, Fred Anderson's The Crucible of War is still the best accessible narrative of the war.

(One of my ongoing, long-term project, is to produce a new narrative which would include, you know, actual French and Indian sources...)
Que le grand cric me croque !

sbr

#43
January 14, 2012, 01:25:44 PM
WWII is what first got me interested in history and is probably technically still my "favorite" war.  I have been much more interested in the American Revolution and ACW lately though.

Admiral Yi

#44
January 14, 2012, 01:39:32 PM
Ucks:  did you read Keegan's writeup of the French & Indian in his book on wars in North America?  If so, what did you think?
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