 | The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.16 Be sure and get the unabridged version of this masterpiece. I love the sarcasm.
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 | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $1.99 The dark, turbulent middle-ages. This book is more than a chronology of battles. Tuchman takes in the whole socio-political-religious milieu of 14th century France in this masterful and riveting book.
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 | The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $0.60 Be sure and also read "Discourses on Livy" for a fuller appreciation of Machiavelli the republican.
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 | Rome: Total War Gold Edition
Buy new: $14.29 / Used from: $7.79 I spent years playing this game. Time well spent in my opinion.
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 | The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 (Penguin Classics) by Ammianus Marcellinus
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.99 Somewhat unappreciated, as it takes place in the waning years of the Empire, This book held my attention throughout.
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 | The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.99 Historians have given Herodotus a lot of grief for having been wrong on some things and perhaps embellishing on others. Feh on them, Herodotus IS history.
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 | Lords of the Golden Horn by Noel Barber
Buy used from: $97.64 The decline and fall of the Ottoman empire. Great, outrageous stuff.
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 | The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe by James Chambers
Buy used from: $24.38 I recommend this book over Marco Polo's "Travels" for someone who is interested in Asian history from the Mongol period.
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 | Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $4.91 Stoic virtue in action. I have found solace in this book more than a few times. It is comprised of Aurelius' "daily inventories" and gives us an profoundly personal view of the last great Roman emperor.
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 | The Nature of Alexander by Mary Renault
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.48 There are many great biographies of this most interesting character from antiquity. This happens to be my favorite. Also check out Renault's historical novels. They are all fantastic.
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 | 1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Great early British history. Plenty of blood and guts.
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 | Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings by Snorre Sturlason
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $4.00 I love the writing in this.
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| Lawrence and the Arabs by Robert Graves
Buy used from: $1.95 One of the most relevant biographies you could read these days.
Lawrence is the kind of man we could use right now to interject some cool-headed reasoning into our relationship with the middle east.
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