New Rome: The Empire in the East
By: Paul Stephenson
3.53
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive new history of the Eastern Roman Empire based on the science of the human past. …
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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- roman
- history
- classics
- ancient history
- nonfiction
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
3. The Byzantine Republic - People and Power in New Rome
By: Anthony Kaldellis
4.14
Format: 512 pages,
Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
4. 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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5. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
By: Chris Wickham
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
An ambitious and enlightening look at why the so-called Dark Ages were anything but that. Prizewinn… read more
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6. The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.26
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal a… read more
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"I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,"-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"Dizem que este Deus (deus cristão) é do perdão. Melhor ofender um desses do que qualquer outro."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"I don't believe he was as bad as you make him sound. Igraine protested. No, I think he was worse."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
7. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
8. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
9. 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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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- roman
- history
10. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
3.95
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
11. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
By: Bart Van Loo
4.31
Format: 607 pages, Hardcover
Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
13. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
By: Christopher Clark
4.18
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
14. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
By: Antony Beevor
4.21
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized co…"-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central …"-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
15. 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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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
16. Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)
By: Alex Pheby
3.60
Format: 617 pages, Hardcover
GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered… read more
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"You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. S…"-Alex Pheby, Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)
17. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind (Wellcome Collection)
By: Martin Sixsmith
4.18
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times More than a… read more
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- history
20. New Rome: The Empire in the East
By: Paul Stephenson
3.53
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive new history of the Eastern Roman Empire based on the science of the human past. … read more
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- history
- classics
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- greece
21. Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
4.19
Format: 664 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
