Anonymous ID: e2856d [REQUEST] Stalin's War: A New History of the Second World War April 19, 2021, 11:48 a.m. No.14066   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4121

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalins-War-History-Second-World-ebook/dp/B08FXYWSKK/

>In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second World War. Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a successful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich in ruins, Stalin created an immense new Communist empire. Among his holdings were Czechoslovakia and Poland, the fates of which had first set the West against the Nazis and, of course, China and North Korea, the ramifications of which we still live with today.

 

>Until Barbarossa wrought a public relations miracle, turning him into a plucky ally of the West, Stalin had murdered millions, subverted every norm of international behaviour, invaded as many countries as Hitler had, and taken great swathes of territory he would continue to keep. In the larger sense the global conflict grew out of not only German and Japanese aggression but Stalin's manoeuvrings, orchestrated to provoke wars of attrition between the capitalist powers in Europe and in Asia. Throughout the war Stalin chose to do only what would benefit his own regime, not even aiding in the effort against Japan until the conflict's last weeks. Above all, Stalin's War uncovers the shocking details of how the US government (to the detriment of itself and its other allies) fuelled Stalin's war machine, blindly agreeing to every Soviet demand, right down to agents supplying details of the atomic bomb.

Anonymous ID: e2856d [REQUEST] Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods April 26, 2021, 1:13 p.m. No.14087   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08XYDVLMB/

>Men today have the ability to read and be inspired by masculine myths and stories from all of the world's religions. We can see how they evolved from one to another. Still, so many men find themselves searching for some sense of what is sacred and want to connect to something eternal, something greater than themselves. The question is: with so many choices, so many traditions, so many gods and heroes โ€“ which ones?

 

>In Fire in the Dark, author Jack Donovan best known for his underground classic, The Way of Men explores the common themes in these myths that are still relevant to the lives of men today. Beginning with the simple, primal metaphor of the campfire, Donovan identifies a tripartite system of masculine roles and shows how those roles have been repeated again and again throughout the history of myth and religion. It is the nature of men to create order from chaos, and when order has been created, it is the work of men to protect and perpetuate that order. These jobs have been idealized in world-ordering sky fathers and thundering warriors and fertility gods. Donovan has integrated these ideals into a natural spirituality for men that is not new, but actually draws from the very oldest ideas about what it means to be a man.

Anonymous ID: e2856d [REQUEST] The Ruler of Cheshire: Piers Dutton, Tudor Gangland & the Violent Politics of the Palatine April 28, 2021, 11:57 p.m. No.14092   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ruler-Cheshire-Gangland-Politics-Palatine-ebook/dp/B017E649W2

>Beyond the control of the crown, Early Tudor Cheshire was a lawless gangland in which warring magnates battled for power. None were more ruthless than Sir Piers Dutton. Friend of Henry VIII's chief minister Thomas Cromwell, trusted servant of the king, and son of one of Cheshire's most influential families, Dutton drew upon a combination of cut-throat guile, carefully cultivated connections, and pure good luck to destroy his enemies and dominate the county palatine.

 

>'The Ruler of Cheshire' is a story of gang warfare, rampant corruption, violent vendettas, power politics, and murder. It traces the rise of Sir Piers Dutton from wayward youth languishing in Chester jail, to trusted courtier, High Sheriff of Cheshire, scourge of the king's enemies, and figure so powerful that his rivals conceded that he could do as he wished in Cheshire and there was nothing anybody could do about it.

 

>The first detailed biography of an Early Tudor local magnate, Early Tudor life being much more local then now, 'The Ruler of Cheshire' makes a vital contribution to Gentry Studies as well as bringing to life one of Tudor Cheshire's most fascinating and unscrupulous characters.

Anonymous ID: e2856d April 30, 2021, 11:23 p.m. No.14097   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>12891

>anything at all on Godot programming

 

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4899E8DFC795DB6478310283A569EC29

>Moving from Unity to Godot: An In-Depth Handbook to Godot for Unity Users

Anonymous ID: e2856d [REQUEST] The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy April 30, 2021, 11:25 p.m. No.14098   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4099

https://archive.org/details/declinefallofbri0000cann

>At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige, and political significance.

 

>Deftly orchestrating an enormous array of documents and letters, facts, and statistics, David Cannadine shows how this shift came aboutโ€“and how it was reinforced in the aftermath of the Second World War. Astonishingly learned, lucidly written, and sparkling with wit, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy is a landmark study that dramatically changes our understanding of British social history.