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Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome

9 best books like Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome (Christopher Scarre): Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, Theogony / Works and Days, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, Butcher's Crossing, Natural History: A Selection, The Spartacus War, In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire, The Wars of the Roses: England's First Civil War

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
AuthorDavid King
ISBN0307452891
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking...
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
AuthorDavid Benatar
ISBN0199296421
Better Never to Have Been argues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into existence is always a serious harm. (2) It is always wrong to have children. (3) It is wrong not to abort fetuses at the earlier stages of gestation. (4) It would be better if, as a result of there being no...
Theogony / Works and Days
AuthorHesiod
ISBN0192839411
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of their violent struggles before the present order was established. The Works and Days, a...
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
AuthorToby Wilkinson
ISBN0747599491
I have to say, I really enjoyed this book. My professor may have derisively called it "popular history", but I still love this book.

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...
Butcher's Crossing
AuthorJohn Williams
ISBN1590171985
In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.

It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up...
Natural History: A Selection
AuthorPliny the Elder
Pliny’s Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger...
The Spartacus War
AuthorBarry S. Strauss
ISBN1416532056
An authoritative account from an expert author: The Spartacus War is the first popular history of the revolt in English.

The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration...
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
The complete and definitive history of how Roman generals carved out the greatest and longest-lasting empire the world has ever seen.

The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an empire which eventually included the...
The Wars of the Roses: England's First Civil War
AuthorTrevor Royle
The War of the Roses is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - the battle between the houses of York and Lancaster. This gripping history reveals the brutal realities of a nation torn apart by conflict and rivalry, while evocatively placing the fighting within the...
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