I have always taken an interest in modern history though there is one exception , it is just I wanted to look inside the people who where outstanding in their way good or bad. So I have found these books made me look at things and happenings from another perspective.
Seven Pillars of wisdom by T E Laurence. I now believe recommended reading in Military Academies across the world. Such insight i to the way a terrorist mind will work.
Long walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela. Full of insight into the way South Africa was during the Apart ide system. Full of things I did not know sadly.
An American Life Ronald Reagan. "Nancy I forgot to duck" those words intrigued me so I read the book
Iliad Homer. 800 BCE Just a good read and shows that things have not changed for the human condition especially War.
My final book is very controversial. Strangely enough I could only find an English version in Germany. Though things have changed now.
Mien Kamph A Hitler. It is a very long look into the mind of a man who changed the world we once had to the one we have today.
Just food for thought, banning of books is only a stones throw away from "where they burn books in the end they will also burn human beings" Heinrich Helm.
Things have not changed much for a lot of people across the globe in all that time from Homer to today.
Last edited by damascus; 07/03/23 07:53 AM.
