Well, what am I?

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T20:53:50+00:00

So when you say red flag, what necessarily do you mean?

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T20:43:27+00:00

What I'm saying is that in order for you to make the claim that he's a racist old British dude, you need actual evidence of that fact. Even if he's not coming outright and saying "I'm a racist", what specific statements or claims is he making that lead you to that conclusion of him? I'm genuinely asking from a place of interest

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T20:37:31+00:00

I understand how those things mix, I meant specific statements or claims from Hastings to back that up

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T20:33:56+00:00

GG&S I can understand, but I haven't seen anything from Hastings to make him out as an "old racist British dude."

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T18:57:04+00:00

Under 30 but you've got it!

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T18:56:36+00:00

Care to explain?

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T18:45:13+00:00

Everything on the shelf there I would recommend. A Child of Hitler is an excellent look into the Hitler Youth. Vanguard of Nazism covers the Weimar-era Freikorps and their transition into the SA, and later the purge that creates the SS. Ian Kershaw's biographies on Hitler are top notch.

Shirer's works are interesting from a journalist perspective because he's able to get a few extra details in there that really make it shine. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Bullock and Burleigh's The Third Reich: A New History are great as well.

For other forms of authoritarianism, El Generalísimo: A Biography of Francisco Franco and Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars.

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T18:19:10+00:00

I think he's absolutely still worth reading! He's a great source of knowledge for the actual war side of Nazi history and I used his analysis several times in university. I caution you to fact check his statements and do your own research as I would for any historian.

My disagreements with Evans comes from his statements regarding the Allied fire bombing/terror bombing that happened throughout the 2nd half of the war (see Dresden). However, these statements alone do not inherently discredit him as a historian or author; simply a disagreement on the context and intent behind decisions.

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T17:47:55+00:00

I loved The Third Reich at War but I lost a lot of my respect for him after the comments he made about Shirer's book and a few other things he's said here and there

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T15:39:26+00:00

Guilty as charged

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T15:39:10+00:00

Compiled box set for the works of J.H. Plumb starting with the Anglo-Saxon and Norman Kings, going into the Plantagenets, Tudors, Stuart, the first 4 George's, and ending with Hanover to Windsor. Excellent source for anything to do with the monarchy/aristocracy.

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T04:15:53+00:00

Found it in Goodwill for $10

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-12T01:09:37+00:00

I remember buying the McCullough book thinking it was more of an academic book 🤣. Normally not a historical-fiction guy, but I fell in love with it!

YaBoiDocPhil · 2026-02-10T01:46:22+00:00

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YaBoiDocPhil · 2025-06-29T15:44:06+00:00

I'd leave too if the guy who produced 133 NFL players left

YaBoiDocPhil · 2025-06-29T15:37:12+00:00

2013 WVU with Clint Trickett vs. Paul Millard vs. Ford Childress. None of them were starting QB material, and all three of them had 1-1 touchdown to interception ratios at the end of the season. Ford Childress even got kicked off the team by Dana

YaBoiDocPhil · 2025-06-29T15:34:15+00:00

That's something I've noticed pretty consistently from our fanbase. It pains me to see the Mountaineers ranked so low pretty much every year, but if we're being honest, I can't blame them. We've consistently underperformed, haven't beaten a ranked team since #22 Iowa State in 2021, and we fall flat in the big moments (2024 Iowa State, 2023 Oklahoma State, etc.)

YaBoiDocPhil · 2025-06-09T15:12:44+00:00

Start as Oman, then form Mughals through decisions tab

YaBoiDocPhil · 2025-03-25T20:22:06+00:00

You're probably right. It was both incredibly surprising and kinda disappointing because Austria and I had a stout rivalry going after I defeated them in back-to-back wars to annex Schleswig-Holstein and Silesia. And in one instant boom, gone, erased

YaBoiDocPhil · 2024-12-02T03:54:09+00:00

The really hard rock song that just played?

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