Dan Carlin is an independent podcaster and historian who has built a massive audience through his immersive storytelling style. His podcast Hardcore History explores pivotal moments and figures in world history with extensive research and engaging narration. Carlin's work demonstrates how history shapes contemporary understanding of power, conflict, and human civilization.
13 Books Recommended by Dan Carlin
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All Quiet on the Western Front
3 people recommendedThe author is helping you to see what they all learned from this terrible conflict.
Also recommended by: Donald Trump, Christopher Hitchens
The Razor’s Edge
3 people recommendedWar transformed those idyllic pre-1914 ideas into reality, that war wasn't heroic. [This book] is one example.
Also recommended by: Cal Fussman, Patrick Oshaughnessy
Chariots of the Gods
2 people recommendedPlayed upon these tantalizing little legends that seem to suggest that man has had contact with higher beings.
Also recommended by: Ankur Warikoo
The Storm of Steel
2 people recommendedThe reason you don't read [this book] in highschool is because [the author] made the critical mistake, from a literary standpoint, of feeling like he got something out of [World War I].
Also recommended by: Austen Allred
Alexander of Macedon, 356β323 B.C.
If you haven't fallen in love with the Alexander tale, I encourage you to do so. [This book] is a good one to start with.
Alexander and the East
[The author]'s trying to bring you back to reality about who [Alexander] was and what he did.
The Sign and the Seal
97% of it is bunk. But what's interesting is the part that might not be.
Black Athena
Tries to suggest that Greeks as we know them now were not the people that existed in Plato, and Artistophenes, and Socrates' times, but that those folks had a Black African component to them.
The Wizards of Armageddon
The many scenarios involving nuclear war, Including the 'escalation' and 'brinksmanship' options are key here.
National Socialism and the Religion of Nature
About this whole way of thinking that the Nazis had, and it was like a religion.
