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The Secret History
Author: Procopius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of...
The Rise of the Roman Empire
Author: Polybius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to...
The Makers of Rome
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
On Sparta
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the...
The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378)
Author: Ammianus Marcellinus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The...
The Early History of Rome
Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In Livy's epic history of Rome he unashamedly praised his country's virtues and urged against its excesses, in order to...
The Sixteen Satires
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The Jewish War
Author: Josephus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
The Twelve Caesars
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them...
Chronicles
Author: Jean Froissart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...
The Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
On the Origin of Species
Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...
The History of Alexander
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...
Magna Carta
Author: Prof David Carpenter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in...
On War
Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Author: Jacob Burckhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world...
Poetics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
The Civil Wars
Author: Appian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era...
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation
Author: R. M. Ogilvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Betty Radice's translation fully preserves the clear, articulate style of the original. In his introduction, R. M. Ogilvie...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
Author: Asser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings....
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his...
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
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Author: John Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of...
The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining...
MacArthur
Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...
Hell's Angels
Author: Hunter S Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Hell's Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of...
The Naked and the Dead
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels'...
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Author: Azar Nafisi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'That room, for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was!' Every Thursday morning...
If Not Now, When?
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....
Life and Fate
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...
History of the Russian Revolution
Author: Leon Trotsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It is still the most...
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH...
From Democrats to Kings: The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexander the Great
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Author: Michael Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 294 A History Channel consultant explores how, in less than 100 years, ancient Greece went from a democratic city-state to an monarchical...
Antiquity Matters
Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling
Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...
The End Is Always Near: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today
Author: Dan Carlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons...
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation
Author: David Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a...
God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath
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Author: Malcolm Lambert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the...
Photo Nomad
Author: David Douglas Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life...
Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
Author: Helen C. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that...
Anna Comnena: A Study
Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...