Pinned post for Q&A :)

@seegurke93

Жыл бұрын

If YOU write books, I would buy them all!

@tombogan03884

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever read the book "A Sailors Life" By Jan De Hartog ? It's his experiences under sail.

@scottgiles7546

Жыл бұрын

If you did the hard and needed work of actually writing a good book on the USN Fleet Problems would you be invited to things like the USNI Panel Discussion on WWII at Sea? (I just want the book)

@alexandercaires5921

Жыл бұрын

Non-naval question: is that a Norse Drinking Horn? Naval Question: How would one go about researching naval doctrine?

@gregorywright4918

Жыл бұрын

@@scottgiles7546 Albert Nofi has a decent book on those already.

I would love drac's book reccomendations to become a regular thing.

@craigfazekas3923

Жыл бұрын

For sure !! When I'm not working or doing my responsibility thing ? I'm building 1:700 scale model replicas. And when not doing that ? I'm reading naval history. This is a very good idea- keep it rolling, Drach !! 🚬😎

Drach, I think we just missed the five year anniversary of your channel, didn't we? Just wanted to say how much we appreciate you and the work you do here. You've come a long way since the early robot voice videos. Here's to a long and successful career as a naval historian!

Maybe create a "tech tree" but of recommended books. It would fit nicely in the website, and people could track where they are/ where they are going better than a list. The YT video comments of each book or node could be linked. Respectfully.

@NexusReload

Жыл бұрын

I like this, it's a very good idea

@GammaAKF

Жыл бұрын

That's downright brilliant, someone get this man a gold star sticker and a cookie.

@alexandercaires5921

Жыл бұрын

As long as he's not a Yankee...give that man a Beer (or Spirits)! If he is...he'll have to settle for Root Beer

@ricardokowalski1579

Жыл бұрын

A gold star sticker, a cup of torpedo juice, and a cookie. Thanks! 😁

A "This Month's Recommended Book" would be nice, along with a one- or two-minute review. Cheers!

@jp18449

Жыл бұрын

Monthly? Nah, weekly or fortnightly. So many books.

@gregorywright4918

Жыл бұрын

@@jp18449 So little time...

Just mentioning I'm massively proud to have contributed to your home's weight bearing issues at right where the Warships series becomes difficult to obtain. 😁 Keep bringing the goodness to us please, Drach. May we meet up on a museum ship sometime soon.

I love how in the midst of the many history books and journals like Ship there is a model of United Federation of Planets starship! One day, the definition of "ship" will be a craft that travels between the stars!

Always love to have a peek look into some else's library ... to zoom in on my extra large screen and check from the screenshot which books we have in common ...

I commend your discipline. You managed two focused talks and stayed on topic while perusing your library. The siren call of all those books (Read me. READ ME!) must have been hard to ignore. When you cracked open the Warships and read from the contents list, I half expected you to go "Oh, that looks interesting!" and 15 minutes of page turning taking place.

Thanks. One thing you could do - that would be supremely useful to other historians - would be to post a list of each of your books. Something sort of like the Card Catalog you would have access to in a Library. Author, Title, Subject, Publisher and a brief description would be priceless for a historian. With that information - a Historian could make a stronger effort to find and achieve access for themselves to such books. One thing they could do - besides the obvious use of such as Amazon - would be to visit their local Libraries for their Cities and Universities and see what they had access to. Some of these books could be available through Inter-Library Loan - where one Library would Lend the book to another Library - for you to access. One thing about right now - is that it is my estimation - that there are still far more books in Libraries than are accessible Online. The Internet, I believe, was in existence when I was researching my Thesis but - only a relatively few had access to it. So - all the research I did - was through my University Library - and the Library of another Local University. .

@michaelsommers2356

Жыл бұрын

Or one could search online for naval history bibliographies, or a more specific term. Or, if one is old-fashioned, one could look at the bibliographies in books one has access to.

@gregorywright4918

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelsommers2356 Looking at the bibliography section of my favorite books is the best way to find other books I have not heard of. Sometimes my opinion of an author goes up as I realize he has found some obscure resources, or spent a lot of time in primary-source archives or interviews.

I love the Stargate ship model on the shelf.

I've always been interested in the post WW 1 naval programs that were cancelled. The American Lexington class battlecruisers and the South Dakota battleships. The RN G and N classes along with the IJN 10-10 programs.

I have read "Warships After Washington" through twice and will surely read it again. I think the author does a very fine job of describing the WNT, what it did to existing naval planning, and what came about because of the treaty. As a former cruiser sailor (USS Long Beach, CGN-9) and a keen student of the Guadalcanal campaign, I am a cruiser lover. How the different navies handled the "treaty cruiser" opportunity is my favorite part.

Thank you Drac for the recommendations and the starting point! Your channel is the best.

Thematically oriented book reviews regarding naval topics encompassing the past 5 centuries with an emphasis on the post Age of Sail Era with the periods leading up to the 2 world wars of the 20th century and their outcomes would be a topic I'd eagerly await.

I encourage you to continue with books reviews. Overviews or specialised - it's all interesting and potentially very helpful. It can be difficult to choose when multiple options on a subject exist. Thanks.

Well isn't this a pleasant surprise, I went to check on your previous videos and saw this! I wondered what it was and then the pop up showed! I caught 30 seconds in. New record!

@gusty9053

Жыл бұрын

The Enterprise NX01 refit is not too shabby either. Proper nerd :))

A very nice collection indeed. Great reading for sure.

I just learned a great deal. Thanks Drac.

This would make a great educational tool for all. Love the channel Drac, your the best. 👍

Noice, Drach !! Funny enough ? I find myself tilting my head sideways to gander your other titles, lol. And I KNOW I'm not the only one in this.... Btw, I am waiting for Christmas, because I hear that Santa/Chris Kringle has the new edition on the major units of Soviet/USSR's navy in WWII from USNI Press for me. I look forward to this, so thank you Santa, in advance !! 🚬😎

I do enjoy. Please keep it going.

Mrs Drach sticking a “kick me” label to Drach’s jumper was interesting.

Thanks Drach, you should continue this. Make a playlist so we can go back to reference the Library.

Thank you, Drachinifel.

The weekend starts Here!

The best English book for learning about the 'modern' Regia Marina (pre-1946) is 'Mussolini's Navy' by Maurizio Brescia, but it is out of print right now and oh my word is it expensive.

More book reccomendation videos please, Drach!

My father would have liked this channel. Jesse J.Bryant chief electrician submarines Atlantic 1946-67 i.e.U.S.S. Skipjack etc. Me:BT3 BRYANT ADVANCE BOILER TECHNICIAN U.S.S.GRIDLEY CG-21 ACC/ABC L.M.E.T. 6YO(6 year obligater). 10-17-84. Thanks Drach.

Lets this become a regular feature please Drach

@Drach thank you for pointing these books out because now i know what to tell my sister what i want for Christmas, i'm gonna tell her to get me those John Jordan books.

Maybe set up an video interview call with your not-sponsor, John Jordan. Seems he is quite a good and interesting historian :)

Brilliant video! Thank you. I am writing about the antiwar movement and the Washington treaty for my Phd. What about Almira Vinson's The Parchment Peace, The United States Senate and the Washington Treaty and The Treaty Navy by James Hammond and my PhD supervisor's: Royal Navy in the Age of Austerity by GH Bennett? lastly, I found Building Cosmopolis, very interesting. This was HG Well's reporting and observations on the Conference. The interwar period is my favorite area of study! When is a video on the Invergordon mutinies? Great work! I really love your channel!

Thank you for the video. Very interesting. ^^

If possible, in addition to the usual videos, I would like to see more of these.

Book recommendations are always welcome. What I have found is, often, reading on a topic produces more questions, because there often seem to be things left out. One fact does not knit tightly with the next fact in the narrative. How could the Washington treaty regard Hood as "post Jutland", but Tennessee and California are "pre-Jutland"? The narrative about the KGVs having 14" guns made no sense. I went through books by Garzke, Raven, and Friedman, before I was satisfied that the decision to go to 14" was driven by First Sea Lord Chatfield, and his embrace of the "more smaller guns equals more hits" theory, and I many have only picked up on that as the pivot because I have studied the row in the USN over going from 14" to 16" in 1916. Has anyone written an in-depth analysis of the story of the Greek battleship Salamis? I thumbed through Friedman on WWI naval weapons, and found that the German 30.5cm/50 mount would have fit almost perfectly, being designed for a barbette less than 1.5" smaller in diameter than what Salamis was built for. Why didn't the Germans do that? I will be chasing these questions for years.

Great stuff!

I enjoy these lists, you can never have too many books to read!

Drach did you get the Conway books (4) on ships that list all the ships ever, up until think 1976?

@Drachinifel

Жыл бұрын

Yep :)

Can we get a Battle of the Barents Sea video on the 31st? It be 80th anniversary

@mbryson2899

Жыл бұрын

Seconded!

I highly recommend the two Jordan's book; a very detail look at the political and economical influence on ship construction.

I spotted only 4 volumes of Chess for Dummies in your collection. Where's the fifth one ?.... 😆

Great library!

So we get to see behind the curtain and see what the Wizard is using LOL was interesting and would be in the future too, thanks.

West wing 4th floor, subsector F11. & West wing 3rd floor subsector R6.

More book suggestions: thumbs-up, yes!

Not going to lie, I am jealous of the collection.

@rabidmidgeecosse1336

Жыл бұрын

very very jealous

If I ever get back to having the time and money for books and reading I will be coming back to these for recommendations.I have all the Warships from 1989 to the most recent. I am slowly getting Annuals I to XII to finish the set. I echo Drach's recommendation for them. I mean if you have any interest in the development of pumping and draining and how important it is there are two articles in years before the one he looked in that looked that in the RN.

I've read a great deal and watching this video I was reminded of how many books I did not read! What always struck me was how often politics and the issue of funding a navy played such an important part in how ships were designed, equipped, and most importantly performed. The American congress was always conservative where spending the public's money was concerned, and they took fiscal policy very seriously. Thus the American Navy was forced to consider the cost of every improvement, whether it was the cost of fuel, ammunition, steel, or crew. It seems like nitpicking, but the public in the inter-war years was not pro-military and definitely not pro-raise taxes to pay for a bigger or better military.

Hey Drach, snap your warships plus a complete set of Brassey's untill 1950 when it became the combined version. Took a long time and a lot of searches on ABEBooks.

Wow what an early release just got home from work lol

Been waiting for a video like this…perfect! I am looking for a book that covers the process within the British Admiralty of the realisation that the treaty regime was dead and should be abandoned. Was there a penny drop moment or was it a long, gradual realisation? Could you perhaps recommend a book for this, specifically? What were the first RN ship classes designed totally free of treaty limitations? You have one of the best channels on KZread.

@gregorywright4918

Жыл бұрын

There is some of that in the second Roskill book, if you look at it as a "long, gradual realisation".

I'd certainly like a visit to the library once a month in Fun the Friday slot

I love the Ha'tak sitting there, but it does raise more questions than it answers. Can you do the eye thing?

I read a book a few years ago which was specifically about the German Naval laws. It was a very dry book, but if you wanted to learn how Germany promoted and then enacted building its fleet it had you covered.

Any book with The Drachinifel seal of approval is well worth the read … or the Listen ..especially if Drach is the narrator

I was just thinking about the Washington Navel Treaty.

I know you have not figured out how to create time, but do you have plans of writing some naval history books? I would buy an entire series of books of naval histories written from your point of view and in your speaking style. If not a written series, a spoken word series would be great $$$$

I just ordered the two Roskill books since they showed only one each left on AMAZON the rest on the wish list

Please do a report on NCC-1701, Starship Enterprise. You have a model in your library.

Perhaps to eliminate duplicates in your collection create a spreadsheet with all your books in it. If you're thinking about buying your book working your spreadsheet if it's there don't buy it if it's not of course by it. That's what I do with my DVDs and blu-rays

Dam living across the pond im try to sleep Drac!! Lol

Checking now, it looks like some of the Warship volumes are available as e-loans from the Internet Archive.

There was a pc game called Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1920's using the ships not built against Japan

Does Mrs. Drac look at these shelves and think about all the diamond rings or other things she could have had? 🙂

@Vito_Tuxedo

Жыл бұрын

@Glen Schneider - No. She doesn't.

Both Bougainville and Eritrea, the sloops in Warship 2016, are Tier 1 ships in World of Warships

Thanks

How does one go about getting a Library Card to The Drach Collection?

The Nelson is the most gorgeous looking battleship. Prove me wrong.

This was an outstanding "quick strike"....while I am a big fan of Jordan's work, the other reference you recommended was most valuable....

Thank you for getting rid of AutoTrack!!

You should see if John Jorden would consider being a guest on your channel.

What was that theme music from please

More please

I want to see the questions Drach wouldn't cover no matter the Channel Donation. Todays q: What would have happemd if the Washington Naval Treaty required replacing Battleships with cattleships , and nobody was willing to correct the Typo...

The books are all very impressive.... But I think the real question that everyone wants to know: What is your army of miniatures visible on the lower shelf ?😜

Video starts at 1:55

Nice Ha'tak xD

Oh boy Drach... ya gotta ALWAYS check your Audio... always... before you do your videos

Kree Drachifinel. Kree! Is that a model of a Ha'tak upon the shelf I see? No chance you remember where you got it?

@Drachinifel

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, the late Eaglemoss were the makers 😞

Is that a Ha'tak? 😀

I didn't see the Star Trek Blueprints on the shelves?

@gregorywright4918

Жыл бұрын

He's probably got a Sci-Fi shelf over in the corner out of video...

This entire Video seems to be a bit to get the Attention of John Jordan :) A cunning plan to say the least. I liked books and started my channel with book reviews. It didnt go well. But getting book recomendations on specific books for a timeperiod, like book of the month, from you could be interesting for peopel and for me.

That audio quality though...

Like everything else in this episode..this comment was also written by "John Jordan" under a ghost name of course.. (Joking)

Next trip to US, you ought to visit here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/op2mwc-uhN2_fZs.html&ab_channel=Veritasium

Looking at your book cases and the size of the room, I'd guess you live on an 18th or early 19th Century warship.

Could there be WW2 mummies still trapped in the Deep?

@michaelsommers2356

Жыл бұрын

Probably any bodies in the oceans would have been scavenged or dissolved decades ago.

👍✌️

Your library looks so posh. All of my bookshelves are cluttered with all kinds of crap.

The Washington Naval Treaty actually boosted Imperial Japan's ambitions and led to the Pearl Harbor attack.

@bullettube9863

Жыл бұрын

How?

Drach this is hardly a friday

@Rastek19

Жыл бұрын

Oh fuck but it’s friday I thought we were done with friday already

Well. My wallet has been beaten already. Time to finish it off......

lol do you think your book collection is valued at more then 1 million dollars? (u.s.)

49th, 2 December 2022

What's up with the sound? Sounds like you're standing in a cave or something.

@Drachinifel

Жыл бұрын

I think there's a slight track desync in the early part

@dzejrid

Жыл бұрын

@@Drachinifel 8:40 is when it stops and gets back to sounding normal

Really like your content, and I realize there are monetary realities, but an entire two minutes of shilling before the real video is in my view a bit much. Please find a way to cut it back, or at least not have it as the introduction. I'll be considering my subscription to your channel.

@chuckmarble2365

Жыл бұрын

I totally understand the need for his intro advertisements (i.e., as the original Mercury 7 astronauts once said... "No bucks, no Buck Rogers)! And it's really easy to skip ahead to the content if I don't want to listen to the intro sales pitches. So I don't mind at all.

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