Maybe “epic” isn’t the right word, but specifically renowned, in depth, and particularly well written history book series.
As some examples, my favorite reads have been:
Gibbon’s original Decline and Fall…
Shelby Foote’s Civil War
The incomplete Robert Caro LBJ series
Churchill’s war memoirs AND Churchill’s history of the English speaking peoples
William Manchester’s Churchill Series
Donald Kagan’s 4 book series on the Peloponnesian war
Obviously accuracy is important for history books, but I’m not a historian and this is purely for entertainment purposes, so I’m fine with outdated stuff, as long as it’s well written!
Bonus points if it’s about non-western topics, as maybe you can see from my above list I could use some exposure to non European stories and histories.
by One-Carrot-6453