I know this is a discipline where like half the professors still unironically recommend Fehrenbach, so "left wing military history" may be an oxymoron. But thoughts on left leaning military history books about the 20th century ?
Closest I've read is maybe The Blitzkrieg Legend by Karl-Heinz Frieser, which rips apart all the wehraboo bullshit and argues that the German army that conquered France was an ill-equipped bunch of incompetents who won in the Ardennes because of some well-timed cloudy days and some officers who went across the wrong bridge at the right time. But the author is a Bundeswehr colonel, so that's not exactly "of the left."
Someone a while back recommended War Nerd Radio and so I listened to it for a few episodes so far, mind you their first episodes from a couple years back, and liked what I heard.
They have a patron but someone posted this link of the feed. https://www.breaker.audio/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2
No problem, you seem a bit more versed on this topic than I am so would love to get your opinion on this podcast whenever you get a chance to listen to it. Like I like it but I haven't read any books on this topic so I am a bit uninformed.
Dan Carlin has an episode (on his addendum podcast) about how the Nazis sucked compared with the Germans in WW1. But my impression is that military history/theory/whatever is generally pretty rightwing. Correct me if I’m wrong comrades.
I read BH Liddel-Hart’s book about Scipio Africanus and feel like a lot of military theory is in there as well, although obviously I’m far from an expert. Lawrence of Arabia’s book might also be useful although it meanders a ton and has sooooo much information about the kind of terrain you find in Arabia.
