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[Sofia]

Hi, I'm not sure if I ever introduced myself or not! But, if I didn't, hi everyone! I'm originally from Australia but now live in southern California. I love historical fiction and ancient history and right now I'm a graduate student in archaeology. So, hello to you all!

[Susan]

Hi Diane (DL), great to hear from you. Normandy is fascinating. I found the war graves very moving as well as all the fascinating sites. I particularly enjoyed visiting Pegasus Bridge, which was at the forefront of the airborne involvement. So glad I've found this club! Susan

[Bryan]

Welcome Susan. The Russian Revolution is a fascinating topic.

Hi Jordan, I'm just exploring Asia myself with such a vast history.

Good for you Diane that you took a history elective. I would have done the same as long as I had a great teacher. It sounds like you did.

Welcome, Sofia. I have a few archaeology friends and they love their job!

[CloverGreen13]

Hello everyone! My name is Clover... well not really, but for the purposes of this profile, let's say it is :) I'm actually quite new to Goodreads and I am so excited to find such a varied and vibrant groups community. I'm a university student, working on a double major in history and film and a minor in art history. My main historical interests are early/revolutionary and modern diplomatic US history, as well modern global revolutions.
In my free time I like to watch films and I hope to work in art direction/production someday. I enjoy drawing and putting color to canvas as often as possible. I love to cook, spend time with my two dogs (all animals in general, really), whip up handmade soap, plant squash and jack-o-lantern pumpkins for fall. Halloween is kinda big in my family, lol.
I'm so excited that this group has a wide international readership, because I love to meet people from all over the world and I hope that I can travel someday. So, I love to study languages! I'm currently studying Italian, I'm fluent in Spanish and hope to revisit my Latin very soon. My French is very limited, but I have a great accent if I do say so myself. Lol, anyway, that's more than any of you probably want to know!
Ciao!

[Bryan]

Hello, Clover. You came to the right place.

Take a look at our American government topics:
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[Muhammad]

Hello everyone, I am so glad to join to this wonderful group. History is a one of my interesting subject. I desirous to read new publish historical books.

[Alisa]

Welcome Muhammad, we are glad to have you as a member. There are many topics here to explore, so please look around and join in any discussion that interests you. You will find book recommendations on every thread.

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[Robert]

Jacek wrote: "Hi everyone,

My name is Jacek, I am Polish of origin, and very much looking forward to participating in this group.

I have always been a keen reader, starting with SF in my teens (Stanislaw Lem i..."

Glad to have you in our group, Jacek. It's always nice to have another reader who lists WWII among her/his major interests.

[Debra]

Greetings, fellow History buffs! Permit me to intro myself.

I have a B.A. in History--emphasis Modern European--from the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I haven't used it professionally, other than to aid me in assorted research projects, but it's still a daily companion.

My areas of special interest are Victorian Britain, Celtic Britain & the Arthuriad, and WWII, the European Theater.

My current History reads are Madeleine Albright's PRAGUE WINTER and Halliday's A History Of Cornwall.

Looking forward to participating!

[Bryan]

Welcome Muhammed, you did come to a good place to find new books. Enjoy.

[Alisa]

Welcome Debra, we are glad to have you as a member. You might be interested in our threads on British History: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
and WWII: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look, and is a book we are reading right now:

by Joseph E. Persico

Good effort with the books you mentioned. This is how they should appear:

by Madeleine Albright
by F.E. Halliday (no photo)

Simply insert (no photo)next to the hyperlink when there is no author photo available. It comes as second nature once you get the hang of it but let us know if you need a hand.

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[Bryan]

Hi, Debra. Glad you could join us. The British Isles do have a great history. Jump right in.

[Debra]

Thanks, Alisa, for the British thread heads up and the cover/author posting tips...that looks so cool! I shall endeavor to follow your good example.

Debra

Alisa wrote: "Welcome Debra, we are glad to have you as a member. You might be interested in our threads on British History: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
and WWII: https://www.goodreads.co..."

[Charlie]

My name is Charlie Halter and live in Kentucky AND RETIRED TOO.
When I was in high school in Camden, New Jersey back in the 50's the classes that I disliked the most were the History classes. Even in College it was my worse subject. Why? I always felt the past was the past and we couldn't do anything about it.
NOW, at 71, that's all I read -- the History stuff, especially WWll. I'm not limited to that period. Anything that's HISTORY is good enough for me.

[Bryan]

Great story, Charlie. It is never too late to appreciate history and you are a living example of that.

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[Hans]

Don wrote: "Hi. My name is Don Jansen and I live in Virginia, USA where I work for a library. I was attracted to this group by its many threads on interesting topics. I have a special interest in Dutch Histor..."

Hello Don, nice that you like Dutch history.(I am Dutch) Maybe my post in http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6... is of interest for you. If you have any other questions about Dutch history, maybe I can help.

[Jerome, Assisting Moderator - Upcoming Books and Releases]

Welcome, Vianey. You might want to check out our ancient history folder: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

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[Bryan]

Glad you founds us here Vianey. I hope you have time to post between your class work.

[Aswin]

hello..
My name is Aswin..nd im proud to say that im an history buff..i lik to learn about the british empire,the balkan wars,mughal dynasty nd military genre..mainly the japanese and russian war histories..!!..i am now reading the last mughal by william darlymple..i am also fan of the war journal books of joe sacco..unfortunately i hav read only his fixer and palestine..if any body has a second hand safe area gorzade(joe sacco) for sale please look me up..!!
i hope i will make my genuine contributions to this group..
cheers..!!
Aswin..

[[deleted user]]

Hello, My name is Samantha and I'm excited to be a member because i love history. I am a junior in college and i'm studying to become a teacher. I enjoy reading history and I love reading and learning about World War II, the Holocaust, British History and Russian History.

[Robert]

Debra wrote: "Greetings, fellow History buffs! Permit me to intro myself.

I have a B.A. in History--emphasis Modern European--from the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I haven't used it professionally, other ..."

Welome, Debra. Greetings from Urbana-Champaign! Always good to have another reader who's interested in WWII history.

[Robert]

Charlie wrote: "My name is Charlie Halter and live in Kentucky AND RETIRED TOO.
When I was in high school in Camden, New Jersey back in the 50's the classes that I disliked the most were the History classes. Even ..."

Welome to the group, Charlie, and thanks for sharing an interest in WWII history. A Jersey guy who made it to Kentucky for retirement has to be doing something right!

[Robert]

Samantha wrote: "Hello, My name is Samantha and I'm excited to be a member because i love history. I am a junior in college and i'm studying to become a teacher. I enjoy reading history and I love reading and learn..."

Welcome, Samantha. It always is rewarding to hear from younger readers who share an interest in WWII history.

[Diane (D.L.)]

Hey Charlie, Welcome to another Jerseyite! I grew up in Neptune, near Asbury Park. Kentucky eh? How many horses? Can't live in KY without horses...or is that a myth? :D

Glad to see some college students joining the group. History is the path to our future and when SO many young people don't have clue about our history, maybe you can guide them. History DOES repeat itself. Sadly, no one learns the first time around.

Welcome all!

[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

Welcome to the group, Aswin. You have quite a wide-ranging set of interests. We have a lot on British history here - http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...
And a bunch on military history here - http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how the book you mentioned should look:

by William Dalrymple

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[Katy]

Welcome all new members to the group. So much to browse through here. I am sure that you will find some topics of interest for each of you. I look forward to your posts.

[Sitatunga]

My primary interest is architecture but, as with my other hobbies - music, Africa, for instance - it gets caught up with history which, in any case, is itself an intermittent diversion - has been from school - and right now I'm trying to plug the huge hole which is British and European history.

[Jill H.]

Welcome to all you new members who responded to my invitation to introduce yourself to the membership. We are so glad to have you with us. There is much to see and do here for the history lover. Enjoy!!!!

[Alisa]

Welcome Sitatunga, we are glad to have you as a member. There is a lot here to explore, including some music threads, so take a look around. Since you are looking more at British and European history you might check out these folders:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Joseph E. Persico

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[Alisa]

Welcome Samantha, we are glad to have you as a member. We have topical threads in all your areas of interst:
Holocaust: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...
WWII: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...
British history: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...
Russian history: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

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by Joseph E. Persico

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[Meg]

Good morning!

I'm Meg and my interest in history began early since I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts with all the historic places and events. I work at a library so I can keep up with the latest books with a history theme. I'm looking forward to participating in this group too!

[Alisa]

Welcome Meg, we are glad to have you as a member. You might check out our areas of focus and browse threads of interest: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Joseph E. Persico

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[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

Welcome Samantha, Sitatunga and Meg. It's so great to meet new people interested in history.

[Grace]

I am an American high school student who has been involved in History Day (a project based history competition). I am interested in Civil Rights and South American, especially Bolivian, history, and am excited to expand my horizons with the History Book Club.

[Jerome, Assisting Moderator - Upcoming Books and Releases]

Grace wrote: "I am an American high school student who has been involved in History Day (a project based history competition). I am interested in Civil Rights and South American, especially Bolivian, history, a..."

Welcome to the group, Grace. You might want to check out our Latin American history thread: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

And our Civil Rights folder:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by James M. McPherson

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[Donna]

Hi, I'm Donna. I currently live in Evanston,IL. I work at a large pharma company and am a Director of IT.

I grew up in West Chester, PA, so was surrounded by history. I was only 20 minutes from Valley Forge. So it will be no surprise that American History is one of my great loves.

I also had an opportunity to travel to India last year, so have begun to do some reading about India's great history.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Charles - I have already posted to you on another thread - I have to remove a small segment because of our no self promotion rule here and invite you to repost absent that sentence. Many thanks for your understanding in advance.

Hello. My name is Charles. I'm a retired librarian who specialized in humanities collection development, a novelist and book artist. For years I have had an avocational interest in history, from the time when I worked with two historians in a local history archive. And of course I could hardly avoid some study of literary and cultural history -- it was the Menand discussion which drew me in, in fact -- "". So I thought it was time I expanded my discussion groups a bit.

[Corvus]

Hi there! I'm Corvus, from Denver, and I like history.

I came here hunting for book recommendations, really. I've been reading a lot of popular history nonfiction lately; the sort of books that are less textbook, more storytelling. In hunting for more such stories from history, I've run into a bit of an annoyance: the vast majority of popular history books I can find recommendations and such for are "western" history- the US, Europe, and tons of World War Whatever stuff.

I've got nothing against US/Europe/etc history, but I'm really hoping to find good nonfiction stories from, well, the rest of time and space. They're out there, right? I feel like most the books I've found on, say, Ancient Egypt or Edo Japan or the Mughal Empire are usually very textbook-tome-ish. But perhaps I just haven't figured out where to look?

So I'm going to poke around discussions for a while and hey, if you've got anything you think I'd love, let me know!

[Jill H.]

Hello Corvus......if you like history, you have come to the right place. It appears that you are more interested in non-western ancient history, so let me get you started with a link to China and to Ancient History.. Our history interests are so subjective that I hope you find what you are seeking.

China http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...
Ancient History http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

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by Gavin Menzies

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[Robbi Leah]

Hi my name is Robbi. I am a 37 year old stay at home mom in North Carolina. I have always loved to read and fell in love with history in college and in the last 2 years have really gotten into reading historical fiction and non. I am hoping by joining this group I can get some good recommendations on historical books.

[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

Donna wrote: "Hi, I'm Donna. I currently live in Evanston,IL. I work at a large pharma company and am a Director of IT...

I also had an opportunity to travel to India last year, so have begun to do some reading about India's great history."

Welcome to the group, Donna. How fortuitous that you're starting to read about India's history, since we have just started An Exotic Book Cavalcade to Iconic India here - http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
I hope you will join in and let us know about the books you are reading on India.

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by Paul Scott

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[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

Charles wrote: "I'm a retired librarian who specialized in humanities collection development, a novelist and book artist..."

Welcome to the group, Charles. We're very glad you found us.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Louis Menand

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[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

Robbi wrote: "Hi my name is Robbi. I am a 37 year old stay at home mom in North Carolina. I have always loved to read and fell in love with history in college and in the last 2 years have really gotten into read..."

Welcome Robbi. I'm sure you'll find plenty of book recommendations here.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Colleen McCullough

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[Katy]

Welcome Sitatunga, Meg, Grace, Donna, Charles, Corvus, and Robbi. So glad to have you here at HBC. I look forward to reading your comments.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thank you Vicki for stepping in and helping out. I appreciate your welcoming all of these newbies.

[[deleted user]]

My name is Ted Thompson and I live in Alberta, Canada. I enjoy history in general and specifically social history. Graduated from unversity with a BA in history and sociology. Presently, enjoy reading these themes: 16th & 17th Centuary European History, US Civil War, Western Settlement in US & Canada and Portuguese Exploration. Read Bios on Lord Nelson, Oliver Cromwell and Generals Grant & Custer. Also, reading reading Barbara Tuchman's books. To paraphrase C.S. Lewis: "I read history to know I am not alone."

[Matthew]

Hello everyone! My name is Matthew Wilcox, and I currently live in the United States in Alexandria, VA. My wife introduced me to Goodreads, and after browsing the website for a while, I must say I am hooked. She told me that I may be interested in The History Book Club because I love reading about history. My favorite historical figure is George Washington, and I absolutely love Roman history. My favorite Roman history author is Anthony Everitt, but I'm always looking for other authors to enjoy as well. I'm excited to be a part of this club, so I can be introduced to even more authors of history.

[Robert]

Hello group,
My name is Robert Thompson. I am currently an MA student at the University of Oklahoma and also hold a BS in Political Science from Arizona State University. My main interests are American Military History and the history of the Middle East. I also enjoy researching Nazi Germany and the rise and fall of fascism. I hope to contribute as much as I can to this group and learn a whole lot more. Thanks!

[Miguel]

Hi, my name is miguel and i am an argentine currently living in Brazil. I never liked history in school but it slowly grew on me and today this is one of the topics that i am most interested in.

I am currently reading a book about the history of political thought and also following a blog that intends to cover 200 thousand years of history in 40 years, reading a book per month... Let's see how that turns out!

My favorite areas of reading are the history of Rome, the history of England and the french and american revolution. But i am pretty eclectic, so i am interested in a lot of othe stuff (i am also currently reading a book about how humans evolved from apes and what made us be the way we are).

Other areas of interest are science (math, physics), and business books.

I hope to engage in many fruitful conversations with other members of this group, get good tips for enjoyable reading and contribute with my very limited knowledge (every time i finish a book i realize how much i still need to read and learn!)

Cheers...

[John]

My name is John Sabalis. I am an American living in Auckland, New Zealand. I have been interested in history since I learned to read in the 1950s, and took my college degree in the subject. My particular interests are ancient Rome, late medieval England, early 20th century Italy, Germany between the wars, World War I, and the Eastern front in World War II.