Dan Carlin Book Recommendations

Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.

A Historical Biography

by Peter Green

"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 (Source)

Alexander and the East

The Tragedy of Triumph

by A. B. Bosworth

"[The author]'s trying to bring you back to reality about who [Alexander] was and what he did." - Dan Carlin (Source)

The Sign and the Seal

The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant

by Graham Hancock

"97% of it is bunk. But what's interesting is the part that might not be." - Dan Carlin (Source)

Chariots of The Gods

Chariots of the Gods, Book 1

by Erich von Däniken

"Played upon these tantalizing little legends that seem to suggest that man has had contact with higher beings." - Dan Carlin (Source)

Black Athena

The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization

by Martin Bernal

"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 (Source)

The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

"War transformed those idyllic pre-1914 ideas into reality, that war wasn't heroic. [This book] is one example. " - Dan Carlin (Source)

The Storm of Steel

by Ernst Jünger

"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 (Source)

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

"The author is helping you to see what they all learned from this terrible conflict. " - Dan Carlin (Source)

Collapse of the Bronze Age

The Story of Greece, Troy, Israel, Egypt, and the Peoples of the Sea

by Manuel Robbins

"Good [book]. " - Dan Carlin (Source)

The Coming of the Greeks

by Robert Drews

"Good [book]. " - Dan Carlin (Source)

The Next 100 Years

A Forecast for the 21st Century

by George Friedman

"I didn't agree with any of it. " - Dan Carlin (Source)

The Wizards of Armageddon

by Fred Kaplan

"The many scenarios involving nuclear war, Including the 'escalation' and 'brinksmanship' options are key here." - Dan Carlin (Source)

National Socialism and the Religion of Nature

by Robert A Pois

"About this whole way of thinking that the Nazis had, and it was like a religion." - Dan Carlin (Source)