An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
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3 books referenced
Books by Unknown
Referenced in 1 episode
September 10, 2025
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Mentioned as a book 'published in the late 1930s' that is quoted in Nick Lloyd's book on the Eastern Front. A primary source memoir about Austrian troops in WWI.
Referenced in 1 episode
May 08, 2024
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Mentioned as a children's book the speaker remembers from growing up in the 1970s, when discussing how cowboy and Indian films and books portrayed Native Americans
Referenced in 3 episodes
May 04, 2023
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Mentioned in passing as an example of Anglo-Saxon literature where oaths are taken seriously: 'If you read one of the Norse sagas or something, or one of the Anglo-Saxon sort of poems, I don't know, Beowulf or something'
September 01, 2022
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Mentioned as Tolkien's great academic obsession, with the character Gollum compared to Grendel from this Old English epic
August 29, 2022
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Discussed as 'one of the great founding documents of English literature' that Tolkien brought into scholarly limelight