The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
By: Lars Brownworth
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wa…
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1. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
2. The Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok
By: Jackson Crawford , Jackson Crawford
4.16
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering… read more
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3. The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization
By: Bryan Ward-Perkins
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or… read more
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4. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
By: Roger Crowley
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to … read more
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5. The Norman Conquest
By: Marc Morris
4.62
Format: None pages,
An epic tale, with violence at its heart, and a triumph of narrative history. The Norman Conquestst… read more
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6. The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
By: Robert L. O'Connell
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A stirring account of the most influential battle in history: For millennia, Carthage's triumph ove… read more
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7. 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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8. The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
By: Lars Brownworth
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wa… read more
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9. The Vikings: A History
By: Robert Ferguson
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
The Vikings have a kind of dual existence in popular culture, where the Hollywood image of horned h… read more
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10. The Best Team Money Can Buy
By: Molly Knight
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
News-making, inside revelations about the tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were remade… read more
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11. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more
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12. 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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13. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones
By: Thomas Asbridge
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
A thrillingly intimate portrait of one of history's most illustrious knights - William Marshal - th… read more
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14. The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
By: Joel F. Harrington
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overloo… read more
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15. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
By: James L. Swanson
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more
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18. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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19. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.00
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more
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"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
20. Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
By: Dan Jones
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Cr… read more
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21. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
By: Valerie Hansen
3.69
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold e… read more
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