Sudodds, this is a fantastic idea! I know how much time I spent scouring the web for my own Modern reading, so thank you for starting this!
For those doing Germany, here are some of the readings I used:
The Coming of the Third Reich - Richard Evans
The Hitler Myth - Ian Kershaw (a god amongst us all. Anything you find of his will be useful
The Third Reich in Power - Richard Evans
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Shirer
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler - Laurence Rees.
Albert Speer:
Conversations with Hitler's Architect - Joachim Fest
Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth - Gitta Sereny
Hitler's Henchmen - Albert Speer the Architect - BBC
Indochina:
Where the Domino Fell - James S Olson. This was my lifeline during my HSC. I loved it so much my school library actually bought a copy of it for me. If you're going to read anything, read this!
The Killing Fields - Roland Joffe
These are amazing!! So glad to see both my option topic (Russia) and personality study (Trotsky) on here.Always happy to help a fellow comrade 8)
Can't wait to get researching ;D
So helpful thankyou !!So glad you found it useful! If you have any texts that you have found beneficial during your study of America for the national study, please let me know and I'll add a new section :)
I didn't know anything about this topic at all, but if you love to read widely about Hitler and the Nazis, maybe this will interest you. Drugs and Nazism[/url] isn't something I ever looked into, but I suppose Hitler isn't so vegetarian after all if he "mainlined pigs’ liver extracts and swallowed capsules filled with bulls’ testicles."
The article here. It looks to the full novel if you're super interested and want to read more as well.
Omg this is so good! Thank you!Glad you found it useful! If you find any other resources that you feel deserve a shout out let me know and I'll add them to the list :D
hey @sudoddsOkay so content wise, Ken Webb is fine. Like he's not giving you the wrong timeline of events, the wrong dates or the wrong statistics. However is doing well in Modern about that? Hardly. Doing well in Modern is knowing how to APPLY this content, and in my opinion (and the opinion of my teachers and other students I know, some of whom did really well in Modern History) Kenn Webb's books just fail to translate that. Using Ken Webb alone you will not learn how to construct and sustain a thesis, make a critical, nuanced judgement or form a sophisticated source analysis - this is were a band 6 lies. Along with this I found the structure of his textbooks confusing (ie. strays away from the syllabus often, or doesn't explicitly specify which section the content is pertinent too), and many of the activities utterly useless. However, remember that this is just my opinion - other students have used and enjoyed his textbooks and that is great! More power too them, but if you want my recommendation I'd skip Ken Webb and go straight to 'Key Features of Modern History' by Bruce Dennett, that's were it's really at 8)
i couldnt help but notice you put anything by Ken webb on the anti-list
I havent read any of his works but i heard him speak at the HTA study day and thought he was pretty good
are his textbooks just bad ahahah
Okay so content wise, Ken Webb is fine. Like he's not giving you the wrong timeline of events, the wrong dates or the wrong statistics. However is doing well in Modern about that? Hardly. Doing well in Modern is knowing how to APPLY this content, and in my opinion (and the opinion of my teachers and other students I know, some of whom did really well in Modern History) Kenn Webb's books just fail to translate that. Using Ken Webb alone you will not learn how to construct and sustain a thesis, make a critical, nuanced judgement or form a sophisticated source analysis - this is were a band 6 lies. Along with this I found the structure of his textbooks confusing (ie. strays away from the syllabus often, or doesn't explicitly specify which section the content is pertinent too), and many of the activities utterly useless. However, remember that this is just my opinion - other students have used and enjoyed his textbooks and that is great! More power too them, but if you want my recommendation I'd skip Ken Webb and go straight to 'Key Features of Modern History' by Bruce Dennett, that's were it's really at 8)
Can't comment too much on his lectures, as I personally have not attended any due to not doing any of the subjects that he lectured (and also because my teacher would probably disown me). Maybe it has changed, but from what I have been told by previous Germany students who attended the HTA study day last year it was pretty much just a content drop - which is fine, but again you need to go a lot further as a student if you want to score those top band marks.
Susie
Not really a reading but just a fun way to remember the section on trenches in Trench Warfare :D
Sounds kinda bad, but this is really cute to play :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8sssbk
Bigsweetpotato Farm
Don't know if this is copyrighted but this is supposed to be a really good book on War in the Pacific. It is 800 pages long though but can always skim and see if something sophisticated pops out :) It appears as if it lets you look through all pages online which is a bonus.Sorry, just saw this! Thanks for recommending - absolute legend :)
http://browseinside.harpercollins.ca/index.aspx?isbn13=9780688016203