Summer Reading Recommendations

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It's summer, which means it's time for some pleasure reading! Here are seven books that Patrick is recommending for your next summer reads:

1) Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

2) Joel F. Harrington, The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

3) Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

4) Paul M. Cobb, The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades

5) Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

6) Bernard Fall, Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina

7) James Romm, Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad free right now.
0:04.4	Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Hi everybody from Wundery welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:22.9	I'm Patrick Wyman.
0:24.0	Thanks so much for joining me today.
0:26.2	I hope you're all having a wonderful summer,
0:28.0	full of vacations and lakes and oceans and pools,
0:31.1	really any kind of body of water and making good memories with your families.
0:35.8	And we all know the perfect companion for a vacation or even just trying to kill some time in the long
0:41.2	hot days of the summer is a book, a really good book.
0:45.8	But how to find the right books?
0:48.2	That's the question.
0:49.2	Luckily, if you're looking for some history related stuff to read I've got a few suggestions for you
0:54.9	these books cover a bunch of different periods of time different approaches to history and I think you'll
0:59.5	really enjoy them but before we hop into my book recommendation specifically, I think we should stop for a few
1:06.7	seconds and talk about what makes for a good summer history read.
1:10.6	Now obviously that's going to depend on what you're looking for what you want to read about but I think there are a few things that stand out
1:17.6	Lots of books can be good but not necessarily for a summer read you know when you're out there you're lying you're out there, you're lying on that
1:23.4	chase lounge or you're lying on a towel or you're lying on a beach or something, you
1:27.2	don't want just any book. You don't want something dry, you want something that's
1:30.6	going to keep you engaged. So how does a book do that? Well, first of all, you need
1:34.9	narrative. The book needs to tell a story. And along those lines, it should have some good
1:40.2	characters on whom you can focus. Otherwise you're just reading
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