📚 6 Books mentioned in "Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136" of Lex Fridman Podcast

james jones who wrote uh uh books like from here to eternity fictional accounts of the second world war but he based them on his own service

Dan Carlin mentions author James Jones and his book 'From Here to Eternity' as fictional accounts based on his service in World War II.

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but we wondered about uh if you believe hitler's writings for example mein kampf uh which you know is written by a guy who's a political figure who wants to get so i mean it's about as as believable as any other political tract would be

Dan Carlin mentions Hitler's writings, specifically 'Mein Kampf', while discussing Hitler's motivations and the book's nature as a political tract.

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i read a book a while back i want to say george friedman the stratfor guy wrote it was something called the next hundred years i think it was called and i remember thinking um i didn't agree with any of it

Dan Carlin mentions reading 'The Next Hundred Years' by George Friedman and his disagreement with its content.

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so i have a book that i wrote right and uh and in a book you have a hard deadline right so harpercollins had a hard deadline on that book so when i released it i was mad because i would have worked on it a lot longer which is my style right get it right but we had a chapter in that book entitled pandemic prologue question mark

Dan Carlin discusses a book he wrote, mentioning the publishing deadline and a specific chapter titled 'Pandemic Prologue?'. The book is 'The End Is Always Near'.

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okay i've uh i've recently almost done with the rise in the fall of the third reich it's one of the historical descriptions of hitler's rise to power nazis rise to power

Lex Fridman mentions he is reading 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' as a historical account of the rise of Nazism.

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unless we don't have the mongol point of view per se i mean there's something called the secret history of the mongols and there's things written down by mongolian overlords through people like persian and chinese scribes later we don't have their point of view

Dan Carlin mentions 'The Secret History of the Mongols' as a historical text providing insight into the Mongol perspective.

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