Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
By: Judith Herrin
3.92
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imp…
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1. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the know… read more
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2. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
By: Marc Morris
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more
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3. City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from… read more
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4. The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
By: Paul Strathern
4.10
Format: 0 pages,
Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia, three iconic figures whose intersecting … read more
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5. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
By: Mary Beard
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more
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6. Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
By: Robin Waterfield
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent… read more
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7. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Rubiconand other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly… read more
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8. Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for … read more
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9. Pax Romana
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
For much of its thousand year history, Rome was an invincible power protected by the most formidabl… read more
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10. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
By: Peter Heather
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordina… read more
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11. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
By: Peter Sarris
4.29
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessme… read more
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12. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more
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13. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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14. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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15. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
By: Martyn Rady
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more
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16. France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
By: John Julius Norwich
3.97
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of Frenc… read more
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"With the Roman Empire effectively gone (...) Gaul disintegrated into a mass of small barbarian states under so-called kings, dukes, and counts. As we know however, nature abhors a vacuum, sooner or l…"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"In 1870, the throne was offered to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Had the Prince rejected the offer at once, there might have been no Franco-Prussian war, and Napoleon III might have end…"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"Martyrs were innumerable, among them, Saint Denis, 3rd century bishop of Paris, who, when beheaded, calmly picked up his severed head and walked several miles to the site of the abbey that bears his …"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"[The Gauls] were carnivores through and through and they loved fighting. Their horsemanship probably outclassed even that of the Romans and, though they lacked the more sophisticated Roman weaponry, …"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
17. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Mark Mazower
4.23
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause tha… read more
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18. Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
By: Fernando Cervantes
3.90
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, authoritative history that aims to deepen our understanding of the campaigns and conque… read more
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19. Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain
By: Brian Catlos
4.00
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the foundin… read more
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20. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
By: Judith Herrin
3.92
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imp… read more
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21. Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
By: Dale E. Greenwalt
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life We used to thin… read more
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