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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWhy the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Ian Morris
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
Peter Ackroyd · 496 pages
The History of Rome, Books XXI-XXX: The War With Hannibal
Livy · 712 pages
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
John Julius Norwich · 416 pages
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
David Abulafia · 783 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
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Edward Gibbon · 691 pages
Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a compass equivalent to a long novel. Casual readers now have access to the full swe
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
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603
Simon Schama · 356 pages
'The British Wars' is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776. It explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change.
The New Penguin History of The World
J.M. Roberts · 1,248 pages
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
Tom Holland · 526 pages
In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval so profound that it spelled, in effect, the end of the ancient world. In The Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland explores how this came about. Spanning Cons
A little history of the world
E. H. Gombrich · 9 pages
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Susan Wise Bauer · 868 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
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 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
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Jennifer Michael Hecht · 551 pages