Name your favorite history book.

[ManBearPig]

its that time again, i need a new book.

preferably roman history, but ill take whatever.

gogogogo

 

[Gibsons]

First thing that came to mind
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Tears-Fo.../dp/0785811141

 

[FoBoT]

http://www.amazon.com/Global-History..._bxgy_b_text_b

A Global History of Modern Historiography

a history book about the history of the study of history

 

[IronWing]

The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes

 

[Mardeth]

http://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Fat...9789760&sr=8-1 or any anything else written by anthony beever

 

[Sea Moose]

wikipedia

 

[a123456]

Probably not what you're looking for but

Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

 

[LordMorpheus]

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailor by James D. Hornfischer.

About the battle off samar (dinky little destroyers protecting slow, ungainly escort carriers from the entire japanese navy sailing in search of the decisive battle.

if any of you guys have been watching WWII in color, the Samuel B. Roberts was sunk in this engagement, but not before making huge contributions to slowing the japanese down enough to save the fleet.

 

[PrinceofWands]

The assigned texts in my intro to Roman history course were:

Makers of Rome - Plutarch
Murder Trials - Cicero
The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius
The History of the Church - Eusebius
The War with Hannibal - Livy
Roman Society - Henry C. Boren
A History of the Roman People - Ward, Heichelheim, & Yeo
A History of the Ancient World - Starr

The Livy and Starr were excellent, while the rest were interesting or ok.

Excellent reading lists from the MIT OpenCourseWare project:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-302Spring-2005/Readings/index.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-402Fall-2005/Readings/index.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-405JSpring-2005/Readings/index.htm

 

[SlitheryDee]

I don't read much history, but I thoroughly enjoyed "The Last Two Million Years" by the reader's digest association 1973 edition. Mostly it was interesting reading about the state of the world in that time what with the Soviet Union still considered a major superpower and at odds with the U.S. The book also covered (very roughly of course) the history of man from pre-human ancestry through every stage of civilization up until the time of publication.

 

[sandorski]

Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

One of the most profound books you will ever read.

 

[Lonyo]

Juvenal.
Plutarch.

 

[Gibsons]

http://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Fat...9789760&sr=8-1 or any anything else written by anthony beever

Oh yeah, this is a great book. Extremely detailed, but still an engaging read.

 

[ManBearPig]

Thanks guys, ill check them out tonight!

 

[ManBearPig]

anyone know any good biographies of Augustus?

 

[nerp]

Penguin History of the World.

 

[Arcadio]

A History of the Ancient World - Starr

I think I found what I've been looking for as well. Reps.

 

[Crono]

Histories of Herodotus

 

[acheron]

anyone know any good biographies of Augustus?

I liked this one, the author also has a pretty good Cicero biography.

 

[acheron]

I liked this one, the author also has a pretty good Cicero biography.

...and apparently a new one about Hadrian, I haven't read that one though.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

2194 Days of War

A pseudo-daily account of WWII.

 

[YetioDoom]

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

 

[ManBearPig]

I liked this one, the author also has a pretty good Cicero biography.

I thought about that but some of the reviews seem to indicate that he took some "liberties" when drawing from his sources. I HATE it when authors decide to extrapolate and form wild conclusions as opposed to giving pros and cons of the information, forming a conclusion, and allowing the reader to evaluate the decision and deciding ultimately what they think is right.