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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
You're doing yourself a great disservice, and I hope that someday you'll find out just how rich history - all history - can be.
It looks like you missed this thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=199110
Read the entries from February 15-23 to find out about Columbus the badass.
There are many cool things you probably don't know about Columbus and his contemproraries, about Washington and his friends. If all you care about is 20th-century warfare, then you might as well admit you don't care about history at all. I recently read a three-volume set on the economic causes and effects of naval warfare in the period from the Spanish Armada through the end of the British-French wars of the 1700s. Fascinating stuff. I'm also currently collecting music from the Baroque era, and concurrently reading about the composers and how they interacted with kings and princes.
Also, if you're not interested in the pre-1700s then you've probably missed out on one of the best series of novels ever written - The Three Musketeers and its four sequels. Poor you. |
Poor me I guess. I just haven't found anything out of that time period that has caught my interest. I do care about history...just not the kind of history you enjoy. I'll eventually find something cool about it and want to study it. But atm, I'm big into the 20th Century Wars.