Books Recommended by Dan Carlin
Black Athena
Martin Bernal
Source: "Tries to suggest that Greeks as we know them now were not the people that existed in Plato, and Artistophenes, and Socrates' times, but that those folks had a Black African component to them." - Dan Carlin
The Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
Source: "The reason you don't read [this book] in highschool is because [the author] made the critical mistake, from a literary standpoint, of feeling like he got something out of [World War I]." - Dan Carlin
Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.
Peter Green
Source: "If you haven't fallen in love with the Alexander tale, I encourage you to do so. [This book] is a good one to start with." - Dan Carlin
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
Source: "War transformed those idyllic pre-1914 ideas into reality, that war wasn't heroic. [This book] is one example. " - Dan Carlin
Chariots of the Gods
Erich von Däniken
Source: "Played upon these tantalizing little legends that seem to suggest that man has had contact with higher beings." - Dan Carlin
Alexander and the East
A. B. Bosworth
Source: "[The author]'s trying to bring you back to reality about who [Alexander] was and what he did." - Dan Carlin
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Source: "The author is helping you to see what they all learned from this terrible conflict. " - Dan Carlin
The Sign and the Seal
Graham Hancock
Source: "97% of it is bunk. But what's interesting is the part that might not be." - Dan Carlin
The Coming of the Greeks
Robert Drews
Source: "Good [book]. " - Dan Carlin
Collapse of the Bronze Age
Manuel Robbins
Source: "Good [book]. " - Dan Carlin
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