If you're looking for Marxist reads, you can go to https://www.marxists.org/index-mobiles.htm

They have a LOT of free ebooks on the topic. They have works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and many others. They have histories about the Russian Revolution like John Reed's ten days that shook the world, all kinds of books that have analyses of socialism, communism, and history. All the books are public domain, and this older. But its everything you could want about the earliest writings and analyses of Marxism. And you can read everything there for free.

He may not be screwed in Georgia. The state is working on a law, Georgia House Bill 231, to remove prosecutors and district attorneys from their posts.

Copied from CNN: House Bill 231 would create the "Prosecuting Attorneys Oversight Commission, which shall have the power to discipline, remove, and cause involuntary retirement of appointed or elected district attorneys or solicitors-general."

So Trump may skate charges in Georgia once this becomes law and they remove the prosecutor.

I'll second that recommendation for The Last Emperor of Mexico. Was a good book covering the events of a little known event in Mexican history and did a good job at it.

Mexico has a pretty interesting, messed up, and bloody history. From the war of independence from Spain, where they have a succession of presidents and dictators who get overthrown and executed on a somewhat regular basis. One of the heroes of the war of independence declares himself emperor, gets overthrown, and put before a firing squad. Other presidents get executed by their opposition, like Guerrero who is hanged.

You've got the US meddling in affairs and spurring revolution in Texas and eventually warring with Mexico and taking a good chunk of territory. Look up the books So Far From God by John Eisenhower for a good American perspective and A Glorious Defeat by Timothy Henderson for the Mexican side. After that is civil war where the liberal opposition wins, and then the conservatives get European intervention for the second Mexican Empire.

Porfirio Diaz gets power for 35 years after all this and has relative stability, but he does rule with absolute authority, and caters to the elite of the country and soliciting massive foreign investment. What's kind of ridiculous is that he triggers the Mexican revolution thanks to the Creelman interview, where he tells an American journalist he will not run for reelection. That gets everyone excited and getting political parties going, until Diaz changes his mind. That causes everything to boil over into revolution.

It's interesting stuff.

These are all great suggestions, thanks. I think I'll start with with The Opium War, that one looks interesting. But I'll add each of these books to my list.

Thanks for the suggestions. I have read several of Orlando Figes works before and they were pretty solid. His book on the Russian Revolution and the civil war, A People's Tragedy was a fantastic book on the topic.

I know almost nothing about the Philipine-American war, and that is definately an overlooked conflict. I'm looking forward to checking out that book.

I am looking to start reading into military history that I am unfamiliar with. I've read a good deal on the World Wars, the American Civil War, the ancient Romans, and many others. I am looking to try and learn more about other conflicts that I know very little about. For instance, the Spanish American war. I know the highlights, but I am hoping that someone can recommend a good book going into the history on that. I am also interested in the French invasion and conquest of Algeria in the 1830's if anyone has any good books there.

If anyone has any recommendations about conflicts that they know about, but are not as widely known, I'd be interested in that as well.

I'd also be interested in any books on Imperial China and its conflicts as well. I can recommend one book there that I thought was interesting: Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm. It's a collection of eyewitness accounts of the Qing conquest of Ming China. It can get into vivid detail about the sacking of cities, people trying to escape, the perils of road travel during the invasion and collapse of the government, it was very compelling.

One final book I will recommend on Imperial China is Emperor of China: Self Portrait of K'ang-Hsi. It's a collection of the documents by the Qing emperor K'ang-Hsi (sometimes read as Kangxi). Its well written, the prose is simple and easy to comprehend, and gives his thoughts on ruling, military affairs, meting out justice as an emperor, and more. Very interesting stuff.

Didn't Russia sue for peace after the fall of Sevestapol and lose the Crimean War?

Does anyone have any recommendations for any books about Korea in the second world war? I'd like to know more about life there during the war, and especially about the Allied troops coming in at the end.

You can try A Time Travelers Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer. It basically only covers 14th century England and does not go into life on the continent. But it does go into village life, customs, laws, travel, urban life, and does not just focus on the nobility. For instance, it goes into how much things cost, how much an urban laborer could expect to make, and so on.

I received a copy of A World at Arms by Gerhard Weinberg. I am looking forward to reading it, as I know a lot of people regard it as one of the better single volume histories of the second world war

However, I did notice this is the first edition from back in 1994 when it was first published. I know a second edition came out in 2014. Would anyone be able to tell me if the updated edition contains any significant changes or updates to any of the information in the first edition?

You may find Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy by Lesly and Roy Adkins interesting. It's an interesting look at the life aboard British Naval ships during the Napoleonic era and focuses on the regular seamen instead of the officers.

I would recommend A World Undone by G J Meyer. I personally find it to be one of the best single volume histories of World War 1, and the way he does an insert of background information as he tells the history never feels like its interrupting and was a great way to get a clearer picture of what was going on. For instance, he is talking about the Balkans, and Serbia in particular. He inserts a quick bit of background with a brief history of Serbia at that point. And it's not a footnote either, it's a couple of pages, and then back to what he was originally talking about.