An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

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3 books referenced

Books by Unknown

Kaiser Jaeger, Persevere, the heroic death of the 2nd Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiser Jaeger in the days of September 1914

Referenced in 1 episode

599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6)

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.

Ernest and the Wild West

Referenced in 1 episode

448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3)

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

Beowulf

Referenced in 3 episodes

327: Coronations: The Deep History (Part 1)

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'

226. The Lord of the Rings

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

225. J.R.R. Tolkien

August 29, 2022

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Discussed as 'one of the great founding documents of English literature' that Tolkien brought into scholarly limelight