Caesars' Wives: The Women Who Shaped the History of Rome
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
| Author | Antonia Fraser |
| ISBN | 0307277747 |
Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...
A History of the World in 100 Objects
| Author | Neil MacGregor |
| ISBN | 1846144132 |
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
| Author | Toby Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 0747599491 |
From first picking it up, it became hard every time I had to put it down. The combination of fluid, easy writing and the fact that this book is packed to the rafters...
| Author | Larry Gonick |
| ISBN | 0393324036 |
Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...
| Author | James Romm |
| ISBN | 0307271641 |
The story of Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic...
| Author | Aloys Winterling |
| ISBN | 0520248953 |
"Caligula enjoys a reputation as one of the most brutal and tyrannical Roman emperors. In this accessible narrative of Caligula's life, Winterling uses his deep knowledge of Roman society and the imperial court to investigate why contemporaries chose to assassinate Caligula's reputation...
| Author | Belle Yang |
When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0802717381 |
On a stiflingly hot day in August 30 b.c., the thirty-nine-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavian--the...
| Author | Richard Miles |
| ISBN | 0670022667 |
The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians...