 | Charlemagne: Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero
Buy new: $20.90 / Used from: $12.44 Pivotal individual who laid the foundation for medieval Europe.
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 | Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.95 Great look at one of history's most controversial politicians, statesmen, and warriors.
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 | Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Jr.
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.18 Great look at two very complicated figures.
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 | Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times by Radu R Florescu
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.78 Not as bad as he's made out to be, but still pretty bad...
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 | Napoleon by Frank McLynn
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 | The life and times of Menahem Begin: Rebel to statesman by Frank Gervasi
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 | Arafat's War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest by Efraim Karsh
Buy used from: $0.01 Ephraim Karsh is one of those historians who clings to the old-fashioned notion that you should write facts, rather than PC nonsense. Curious.
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 | Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
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 | Ivan the Terrible by Robert Payne
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 | The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer by Paul Stephenson
Buy new: $54.02 / Used from: $42.80 Argues that Basil II's legacy was hyped way out of proportion by later chroniclers. Interesting theory.
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 | The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane (Canto original series) by Beatrice Forbes Manz
Buy new: $21.97 / Used from: $3.47 |
 | Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy used from: $0.54 Sensitive poet and cold-blooded killer. A man of many paradoxes.
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 | Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger
Buy used from: $0.09 |
 | The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882 by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.52 |
| Plutarch's lives: Of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and Antony, in the translation called Dryden's (The Harvard classics) by Plutarch
Buy used from: $17.30 Plutarch is the greates and most detailed of the ancient biographers
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| The Saga of Themistocles (Aspects of Greek & Roman Life) by Robert J. Lenardon
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 | The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon
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 | Robert the Bruce: King of Scots by Ronald McNair Scott
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 | Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
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 | Rhodes: The Race for Africa by Antony Thomas
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 | The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
Buy used from: $0.01 The not-so-nice side of the Kennedy dynasty.
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 | Tolkien: A Biography by Michael White
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 | Stephen Hawking A Life in Science by Michael White and John Gribbin
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $0.35 |
 | E.B. White: A Biography by Scott Elledge
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 | Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood by Michael White
Buy used from: $4.45 A detailed and interesting account of one of the most misunderstood figures in history.
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 | Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books) by Michael White
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $2.28 |
 | Churchill : A Life by Martin Gilbert
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 | Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium by Walter E. Kaegi
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 | Leonardo: The First Scientist by Michael White
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 | The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition by Michael White
Buy new: $13.29 / Used from: $0.88 Fascinating account of the life of Giordano Bruno, burnt at the stake in 1600 for heresy.
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 | Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.10 Excellent. The best bio of Genghis Khan available.
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 | Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome by John Man
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $4.50 |
 | Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.62 |
 | Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.98 |
 | From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith by L. Michael White
Buy used from: $5.25 |
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