What are your favorite history books?

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>>9438193

A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the great - J.B. Bury

What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe

>>9438193
Angels and Demons

>>9438193
Yavornitsky. History of Zaporozhye Cossacks

>>9438193
This is the best edition of this wonderful history in English.
Carlyle's French Revolution is perhaps the most entertaining I've read, but the best is Huizinga's The Waning of the Middle Ages.

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>>9438193
I've been reading Plutarchs Greek and Roman lives. They're a good mix between /his/ and /lit/ because they're obviously historical but they act as great stories with moral lessons.

>>9438193
Do memoirs count?
If so, then Seven Pillars of Wisdom
If not, then History of the Byzantine Empire by Vasiliev

>>9438577
So fucking good. The entire Oxford History of the United States series is great, but that one's my favorite.

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>>9438717
The next volume will be out in September.

>>9438654
>Landmark Thucydides is best Thucydides

The maps are good but the translation is a little archaic. I know it's a pseud's game to bitch about translations, but we are on /lit/.

>>9438804
I'm hype af senpai.