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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.05 average rating, · 45.1k ratings
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Dan Jones
4.39 average rating, · 11.1k ratings
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Neil Price
4.14 average rating, · 10.3k ratings
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The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.29 average rating, · 8.1k ratings
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
Thomas Asbridge
4.23 average rating, · 7.4k ratings
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De Bourgondiërs: Aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
Bart Van Loo
4.31 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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The Norman Conquest
Marc Morris
4.18 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Lars Brownworth
4.12 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
Peter Ackroyd
4.05 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
Susan Wise Bauer
4.11 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Roger Crowley
4.15 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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1066: The Year of the Conquest
David Howarth
4.07 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Peter Heather
4.16 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
Cat Jarman
4.04 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
4.02 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Lars Brownworth
4.07 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
Dan Jones
4.03 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Thomas Pakenham
4.15 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
Mark Mazower
4.02 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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A Short History of Byzantium
John Julius Norwich
4.11 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
Tore Skeie
4.16 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Misha Glenny
4.15 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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A History of Venice
John Julius Norwich
4.16 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914
Richard J. Evans
4.15 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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