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[Marlboro]

Hi
I was seraching for some kind of hisoty book, i am not so shure about what i want,maybe somthing about Hitler,islam,or other stuff like these...
Any suggestion??

[crisaor]

About Hitler, you can read Mein Kampf (the book he supposedly wrote himself. I have my doubts on that) if it doesn't gross you out. If it does, or you want a more objective (and sane) vision, any historical book regarding that period should be plenty. I like Eric Hobsbawm particularly, but you can go with any historian you like.

On Islam, the Koran is the must read.

Just out of curiosity, why do you say "any stuff like these". Do you consider hitler and the islam to be similar things?

[Marlboro]

no i dont consider them the same thing !

[Robert E Lee]

Both Nazism and today's Islam espouse anti-Semitism.

I would read From Mecca to Al-Medina by Richard Burton.

[Admin]

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (http://www.online-literature.com/hesse/siddhartha/) is something of a history. It's mostly ficticious but if you're looking for a book on religions it's a good one for learning about Buddhism.

H.G. Wells wrote a non-fiction about his religious beliefs:

http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/invisibleking/

You might also be interested in:

http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/
http://www.online-literature.com/machiavelli/
http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/ (his Philosophical Dictionary is not on this site but it's a very good satire).

For books with historical significance there is...

http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/jungle/
http://www.online-literature.com/darwin/originofspecies/

Also for novels with alot of historical background in them try:

http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/war_and_peace/
http://www.online-literature.com/victor_hugo/les_miserables/

[crisaor]

Both Nazism and today's Islam espouse anti-Semitism.

I see what you mean, but today's Islam isn't quite what it's supposed to be. Same goes for catholicism (or christianism, for that matter).

The fact that nazism and islam might share a certain viewpoint of antisemitism (in different grades, of course, although that doesn't make it less questionable) doesn't make them equal, or even similar. Heck, even Shakespeare could be considered as antisemitism (The Merchant of Venice).