Other than World War II

What other historical wars or conflicts do you follow? For me it varies, right now I'm a little bit more into the Persian-Greek Wars and want to read up on them, but next week it may be something else.

I'm weird in that way

Greg

 

I'll chime in....... Napoleonics especially from 1805 onward to 1815.

(E)

 

For me anything from the 19th or 20th century but especially the German Wars of Unification, The US Civil war, 1st World War and Britain and Frances retreat from Empire.

 

British Army in WW1 specifically and WW1 generally
The Boer War

 

World War I, mainly Italy's involvment and failures.
Italian Civil War during the 40's
Right now I"m pretty interested in Vietnam and Korea as well.

DUCE

 

Battles and campaigns of Alexander The Great and the Palestine-Israeli conflict. (war of 1948, 1967, ...)

 

Great thread.

Of course my main interest is ww2 but....

WW1 comes next--then the Franco-Prussian War, the Napoleanic Wars, the U.S.Civil War, the Revolutionary War (American War for Independance) I am still VERY interested in the Korean War (Police Action) and i'm currently doing research on the Germany during the days of the Freikorps, and soon to be during the Reichssheer days. Ths Cold War is also a budding new interest to me.

Flat out--I love almost any period in time that is to do with Military History.

 

interesting Erwin, have you had a chance to visit the Holy Land ?

-E-

 

The Mendelsohn's Domestic Skirmishes, 1999 - 2002.

This conflict ended with an armed armistice and withdrawl of one of the parties from the disputed area.

 

World War I
Korean War
The Israeli Wars

And quite a bit on Swedish military history when our kings were busy in Denmark, Russia, Poland, German states, etc.

 

Heh, not much else than WW2 actually.

Occasionally

WW1
Napoleon and tactics
Roman Empire
The Maya culture
Finnish civil war

 

For me....the Anglo Zulu wars, much more than Islandwanna battle and Roures drift skirmish...

The Boer war, long and deadly campaign.

Britains retreat from Empire, especially Aden and the Crater area.

The Raj especially last 20 years of British rule.

 

Yes indeed. Me, my parents and my brother visited it a few years ago.

 

At the moment when I don't research about World War 2 I spend some time studying World War 1 (mainly the Somme and Passchendale), the Falklands War, Northern Ireland and the Suez Canal Crisis.

 

Well, let's see... as UNIVERSAL History teacher I am... I like studying:

-The wars of ancient Greece, since the Troy war until the Peloponesus wars.
-Macedonian expansion, since Philipus II until Alexander's conquest of the world.
-The whole Roman Empire. Since the consolidation of the Roman Republic expanding North against the Aesthruscs... (spell?), the Punic wars. Julius Caesar's campaigns, the expansion and fall of the Empire for the next four centuries...
-100-years-war, Viking and Normand expansion, the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the expelling of the Arabs from Spain, the Italian and Turkish wars...
-The conquest of America, the Aztec and Inca Empires...
-The war of the 30 years and all the wars of centuries XVI, XVII and XVIII... (Seven years war, French revolution, Napoléon's early campaigns, etcera)
-Napoleonic wars, wars of American independece (USA, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and all the others) including 1812 war.
-American and French invasions of Mexico and all the colonial conflicts of the XIX century.
-The wars for unification of Italy and Germany.
-WWI
-Colonial wars
-WWII
-Cold war
And some little interest in all the 2nd half of the XX century, no Vietname, no Korea...

 

Apart from WW2 I also take an interest in WW1 and the New Zealand (Maori) Wars.

 

Kiwi, my local town park has a small museum with military history of Northampton regiment.

Many curios and displays/exhibits of their time in New Zealand and the Maori wars.

Pretty ruthless little war.

 

Yep, those Maoris fought pretty well, but they were never going to beat British firepower and tactics. 15 VCs were won here.

 

I HUGE on the Napoleonic Wars right now, maybe even more then ww2 dare i say (i'm taking a breather from ww2 at the moment)
I'm reading David G. Chandlers-The Campaigns of Napoleon and its AMAZING.

The Spanish War Of Succession
or 'the marlborough wars', Marlborough a prince eugene great military tag team..at Blenheim etc..

The 100 years war
and that period in general
Henry the 5th, Edward the black prince, Agincourt and then Joan of arc of course.

WW1...im not HUGE on it, I dont like the tactics employed much but i do think most ww2 buffs have to touch on this in a pretty big way, the 2 are directly related, both politicaly (versailles, weimar, rise of nazis) and militery (1st tanks...differance in tactics between trench and blitzreig)

 

Excellent choice sir ! Also it might be worthy of U to find a copy of Chandler's epic.....Napoleon's Marshalls......if still in print.

~E