Since Viki is a global community, I thought it would be a good place to ask.
Do you recommend any good books about your country’s history? Preferably before 1900 and not USA (I’m covered with recommendations, no other reason) but I’ll take any recommendation.
Anything that is interesting and not just names and dates, and not inflammatory stuff.
It could be your country or something you read, of course.
Maybe you can try to look for books from author Hagen Schulze, he wrote several books about Germany (f.e. Germany - A new history) and Europe, some are translated into English, or maybe even other languages.
Nguyễn Dục Đức: accused of editing his royal father’s order, wearing color clothes on his father’s father, adulterating with palace maid of his royal father. The king was left until starvation to death.
Minh Mạng: The king with so many wives
When a king slept at night, 5 wives would wait on him. Every 2-hour each wife will serve him, and the Court of Imperial Clan will record if they have conception later.
Lê Thần Tông: first king twice ascend to the throne, and the first Vietnamese monarch marry Westerners
Each wife of his belong to each nationality.
Lý Thái Tổ: founder of Later Lý era; king with the most respectable reign name
The king has so much energy every night so that’s why … Every night every 2 hours he was with 5 wives!
Rumor that he even had illegitimate children outside so that’s unable to count.