Option 1. The Black Banners Declassified by Ali Soufan
Option 2. The Second World War by Antony Beevor
(I started reading this some years ago but gave up).
Option 3. A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archealogist in the Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson. I started reading this but got distracted.
Option 4. Alum: More Precious than Gold, the amazing influence and Trade of Alum Across the Ages by Sydney Thorne
Option 5. Women's Work: the first 20,000 years, Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber.
Option 6. Invisible Romans by Robert Knapp. This is a library book that I am partway through.
Option 7. A Fatal Thing Happened On the way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon.
Option 8. Julius Caesar: the life and times of the people's dictator by Luciano Canfora
Option 9. SPQR: A history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard.
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