Fiction or non-fiction are both fine. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for, just perhaps something you enjoyed and is a mainstream classic. by CloudyClieryx
BernardFerguson1944 on March 14, 2025 7:28 pm *The Making of the Atomic Bomb* by Richard Rhodes. *With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa* by E.B. Sledge, CPL, 1st Mar. Div., U.S.M.C. *The Forgotten Soldier* by Guy Sajer. *A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century* by Barbara Tuchman. *Peter the Great: His Life and World* by Robert K. Massie. *John Adams* by David McCullough. *Histories* by Herodotus. *Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae* by Steven Pressfield (fiction). *Anabasis* by Xenophon. *History of the Peloponnesian War* by Thucydides. *Life of Alexander* by Plutarch. *Germania* by Tacitus.
oliver9_95 on March 14, 2025 10:44 pm The Making of the English Working-Class – EP Thompson is a classic, and transformed the way history was written. Eric Hobsbawm’s ‘Age of…’ series are also very famous.
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*Team of Rivals*?
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
Autobiography of Malcolm X.
G. T. di Lampedusa, The leopard
1421 The year China discovered the world – Gavin Menzes
*The Making of the Atomic Bomb* by Richard Rhodes.
*With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa* by E.B. Sledge, CPL, 1st Mar. Div., U.S.M.C.
*The Forgotten Soldier* by Guy Sajer.
*A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century* by Barbara Tuchman.
*Peter the Great: His Life and World* by Robert K. Massie.
*John Adams* by David McCullough.
*Histories* by Herodotus.
*Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae* by Steven Pressfield (fiction).
*Anabasis* by Xenophon.
*History of the Peloponnesian War* by Thucydides.
*Life of Alexander* by Plutarch.
*Germania* by Tacitus.
For mainstream classic: The Scarlet Letter
The Making of the English Working-Class – EP Thompson is a classic, and transformed the way history was written.
Eric Hobsbawm’s ‘Age of…’ series are also very famous.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara