Weekend Reading Update | Queen Victoria & WW1 

I highly recommend Sean McMeekin's "July 1914" for everything in the run up to the start of the war

Micah with no Mr. Rogers sweater? The world is surely ending. Ha ha, same weirdly warm weather in Chicago! I think it hit 60. I was in shorts! I love it. But, yeah, it throws me off that it's November and dark early because we turned back the clocks. Same for me with All Quiet On The Western Front. I've heard of it forever but never got around to reading it. I also had no idea it was a translated work. I'm sure I will read it sometime. I am not in the mental space for dark/depressing stuff right now. That's the kind of thing I'd need to read in spring/summer, to balance out the sadness with real life sun & warmth. (If that makes any sense.)

I also read All Quiet on the Western Front for the first time this month for World War November and LOVED it. Well I may have read it in school but I don't remember anything from those days anymore. LOL I found it incredibly gripping, heartbreaking, and frightening. I think it's a remarkable tribute to all the young men who fought and serves as a stark warning to humanity to steer clear of war at any expense.

Lytton Strachey was famous for introducing a more critical eye on the Victorian grandees, so enjoy that.

Highly recommend Meyer's World Undone if you're looking for a one volume history of WWI. Also Massie's Dreadnought for the naval origins of WWI. Both have sequels I haven't read yet. Sounds like a good October for you.

I listened to GJ Meyer’s A World Undone over the summer which was my first WWI book. I think my next will be Eugene Rogan’s The Fall of the Ottomans which focuses on the war in the east.

Like your channel, we have the same tastes.

Im interested on that big book of Victoria. Quite interesting biography. I'll add it to my list. Btw, do you sometimes also read sci fi or fantasy? Or historic novel?

Nice mustache!