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I have a lot of knowledge about the Ukrainian War of Independence (I've read about it for about two years now), but my knowledge ends there. I've picked up bits and pieces of knowledge through my family and definitely know about the mainstream stuff like WWII and the collapse of the USSR, but I want to know more about the stuff that you wouldn't learn about in a typical North-American history class. I'd love to know more about the Cimmerians and Trypillians, the settling of the Dnipro river, or the Kyivan Rus. The modern stuff too -- about the modern Ukrainian national identity and political institutions.
This is obviously a very big field that I'm sure is divided into many smaller fields. I'm sure there are people who spend their whole lives working as researchers on Cimmerians or pre-Christian traditions in Ukraine, but I would like to get a grip on the general history of Ukraine.
What I'm hoping to get is a recommendation for a book that generally covers all of Ukrainian history. I just want an unbiased book that will help me better understand the wider history of Ukraine -- a book that may function as a "jumping off point" for further research and reading.
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Just to catch anyone up and for those unfamiliar, The Attack of the Dead Men was and still is an amazing battle where just under 1000 men drove off 14 battalions of Germans after suffering a horrific gas attack, the name coming from the zombie-like appearance of the Russian defenders. I first heard about this battle a few years ago on some corner of the internet and tried to do some research on it but all I could uncover was a stub of a Wikipedia article, a few 2-3min pop history videos on YouTube and a short Russian movie about it. No primary or real scholarly source.
I offhandedly mentioned this to a Russian friend of mine and after some digging she told me that its actually not too well known in Russia either. She had found a few people talking about it on Russian history blogs but information was scarce, apparently information on the battle had been surprised following the Russian Revolution on account of it being the heroics of a Tsarist army. All the Russian history blogs pointed to one book, printed in 1917, just before the Russian Revolution. Its seemingly extremely rare with only a few Russian libraries having copies.
Fast-forward a few months and on my birthday she presents me with a translation of the text (specifically the account of Osowiec) that she had spent moths translating to create the first and only copy of this account in English.
I know she worked as a translator and interpreter for the UN for a while so I trust her work
I have copied it from a pdf so if there are any issues or typos, its probably because of that
Without further ado, here it is in full.
This is a translation of an extract from the book called “The Defense of the Fortress
I love history but in a casual sense. WW1 & 2 the aggressors lost the war, Napoleon was the major war I remember before this which the aggressors lost.
I understand there was a war to open Japan, or Japan taking over china which may have been wars but I can't remember the last time a Major power like the UK took over and held another country for over 100 years.
Ancient history is full of this, wars of aggression between major powers which were victorious for the aggressor. It seems to me that aggressive wars were much more successful in the past. When I think of Rome, the Mongols, the Huns, Alexander. It seemed that wars of aggression built empires in the past and there wasn't that united front which seems to stop this for a few hundred years now.
When was the last time something like a top 15 major power taking over another completely and holding it a long time happened?
Does anyone know where to find any speeches or writings by William Randolph Hearst?
I’ve been looking for a while now, and although I’ve found many by his son, I have failed to find anything really by the infamous media mogul himself. If anyone would know where to find something I would be most grateful!
I’m specifically very interested in his views on politics. I know he was very outspoken against FDR and really became one of his biggest opponents in re-election despite not even being a candidate. He had a lot of control over the media in the early 20th century. And yet I haven’t been able to find any speeches by him. Hopefully someone here can help :)
So if anybody knows where there’s is some online archive somewhere with something that was personally written by or spoken by Hearst, please let me know. Again, it’s a bit tricky because his son has the same as him, but I believe some of his stuff HAS to be out there. He’s too important to just not exist anywhere online.
Anyways, thank you all and I can’t wait to hear from you :)
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