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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
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Include books by the same authorThe History of Rome, Books XXI-XXX: The War With Hannibal
Livy · 712 pages
Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore · 672 pages
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 500 pages
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch · 1,161 pages
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society.Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the fir
The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition
Flavius Josephus · 854 pages
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan · 382 pages
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations b
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Ian Morris
London: The Biography
Peter Ackroyd · 824 pages
"London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.". "Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
John Julius Norwich · 416 pages
The Outline of History, Vols. I and II (of 4)
H.G. Wells · 1,171 pages
Ben shu shang su ren lei wen ming de kai duan, xia zhi di er ci shi jie da zhan . jiang gu ai ji, gu xi la, gu luo ma, ying guo, mei guo, fa guo deng chao ji da guo de qi luo xing shuai you tiao bu wen di zhan xian zai dou zhe mian qian.
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Susan Wise Bauer · 868 pages
The New Penguin History of The World
J.M. Roberts · 1,248 pages
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Anonymous, Joseph Smith Jr. · 630 pages
The Book of Mormon is a translation of golden tablets given to Joseph Smith who wrote of their account of a plan for salvation and what men must do to gain peace in this life and eternal redemption in the life to come. Smith received these golden plates from Mormon's son Moroni who was dead but considered glorified and resurrected on September 21, 1823. Smith said he was instructed by God to provi
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Peter Heather · 584 pages
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 456 pages
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What hap