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Non-Fiction

displacedvermoter

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5. Want a quick DIY undergraduate history course?

Reply to displacedvermoter (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 26, 2025, 08:34 AM

Oct 26

Read the following books:

The Long Fuse, Lafore

Two books by Frederick Morton:

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888 - 1889
Thunder at Twilight 1913 - 1914

And two books by Barbara Tuchman:

The Guns of August
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World 1890 - 1914

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