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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W Tuchman
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by Will Durant
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann
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The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics)
by Tacitus
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Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
by William J. Bernstein
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W Tuchman
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt
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What is History
by Edward Hallett Carr
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Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome
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