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Can anyone recommend some good non-fiction history books?
I have two requirements: they must be both scholarly and readable. The following list will give you some idea of my tastes. Thanks, fellow history buffs!David McCullough--The Great Bridge, A Path Between the Seas, Truman, 1776, etc.Stephen Ambrose--Band of Brothers, etc.Joseph Ellis--Founding Brothers, American Sphinx, etc.Antonia Fraser--Cromwell; Mary Queen of Scots, etc.H.W. Brands--bios of FDR, Franklin, Jackson, etc.Alison Weir--Queen Elizabeth I; Eleanor of Aquitaine, etc.Will and Ariel Durant--History of Western Civilization Series, 11 vols.Thomas Costain--History of the Plantagenets, 4 vols.John Toland--The Rising Sun, The Last Hundred Days, etc.Cornelius Ryan--Longest Day; A Bridge Too FarJohn Keegan--Face of Battle, Mask of Command, etc.Martin Gilbert--Churchill; The Holocaust, etc.Robert Remini--Andrew Jackson, 3 vols,; Henry Clay; Daniel Webster, etc.Shelby Foote--The wedgwood Napoleon Civil War, 3 vols.Bruce Catton--Army of the Potomac, 3 vols; Centennial History of the Civil War, 3 vols.Douglas Southall Freeman--R.E. Lee, 4 vols.; Lee's Lieutenants, 3 vols; Geroge Washington, 7 vols.Dumas Malone--Jefferson and His Time, 6 vols.W. Bruce Lincoln--The RomanovsRobert K. Massie--Peter the Great; Nicholas and AlexandriaSimon Sebag-Montefiore--Prince of Princes: Potemkin; Stalin: Court of the Red TsarRobert Aspery--Frederick the GreatC.V. Wedgwood--The Thirty Years War; The King's Peace, The King's War, A Coffin for King CharlesThomas Pakenham--The Boer War; The Scramble for AfricaMartin Meredith--The Fate of Africa; Diamonds, Guns & WarJohn Julius Norwich--The Normans in Sicily; A History of Byzantium, 3 vols.Lord Kinross--The Ottoman Centuries; AtaturkJohn Glubb--The Great Arab Conquests, etc.New Cambridge Modern History, 11 vols.David chandler--Campaigns of NapoleonFrank McLynn--Villa and Zapata; Richard and John: Kings at WarW.L. Warren--Henry IIAllan Nevins--Ordeal of the Union, Emergence of Lincoln, etc.JB Wolf--Louis XIVJared Diamond--Guns, Germs & SteelChristopher Hibbert--The Borgias and Their Enemies, etc.Ross King--Michelangelo & The Pope's CeilingJohn Rewald--History of impressionismEamon Duffy--Saints & Sinners: History of the PopesJohn Hemming--Conquest of the IncasR.J. Knecht--Renaissance Warrior and Patron: Francis IHoward Zinn--A People's History of the United StatesEnglish Historical Documents SeriesMichael Grant--The Rise of the Greeks, etc.Of course I've read the primary materials such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio Cassius, Procopius, Eusebius, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Pan Ku, Froissart, Saint-Simon, etc. etc. I'm looking here for recommendations of secondary source histories and biographies that you have enjoyed and profited from. I may have already read it, but I appreciate any sharing of the love of history.
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