![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We also have book recommendations on early modern history and contemporary history (history of the present). The big global conflicts of the 20th century remain a key source of fascination, and we have a large number of book recommendations on World War II.īook recommendations about key historical figures-like Hitler, Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and Genghis Khan-are among the most popular on our site.Īncient history, medieval history and modern history. For a more detailed look at different people, times or places in history, we've divided our recommendations into a number of sections:īooks on world history, including American, Chinese, French, Russian, German or British history. Here are some of the popular history books that have been recommended. We’ve spoken to hundreds of historians asking them to recommend the best history books (and explain what’s so good about them in an in-depth interview). His resolve was strengthened by the advice of his old headmaster at Harrow: ‘Gibbon is the greatest. At that time he was a cavalry subaltern at Aldershot and he thought it would be more agreeable to read Gibbon than to pile up statistics. Foreign Policy & International Relations Winston Churchill decided to read The decline and fall of the Roman Empire at the age of twenty, in 1895. ![]()
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