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This page includes books in my personal library on ancient and medieval history and various miscellaneous history and biography periods or categories, mostly European history. General history, including surveys or overviews of time periods and some miscellaneous U.S. and other history topics are now being compiled at a new sub-page User:Donner60/General and Miscellaneous History Library. A few books do not, or do not entirely, include military history. This list may be incomplete.

Ancient World: Including Egypt, Greece, Celts, Persia, Phoenicia

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  • Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray, eds. The Oxford History of the Classical World. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-19-872112-3.
  • Cline, Eric H. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-691-14089-6.
  • Connolly, Peter. Greece and Rome at War. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84832-609-5. First published in Great Britain by Macdonald Phoebus Ltd., 1981. Reprinted by Greenhill Books, 1998. Updated and reprinted by Greenhill Books, 2006.
  • Cunliffe, Barry. The Ancient Celts. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-875293-6.
  • D'Amato, Raffaele and Andrea Salimbeti. Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c. 1400 BC--1000 B.C. Oxford, UK, New York: Osprey Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4728-0681-9.
  • Fox, Margalit. The Riddle of the Labyrinth. New York: Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2013. ISBN 978-0-06-222886-4.
  • Goldsworthy, Adrian. Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry New York: Basic Books, 2023. ISBN 978-1-5416-1996-8. Also in Rome section next.
  • Green, Peter The Greco-Persian Wars. Berkley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1996. Reprint addition. ISBN 978-0-520-20573-4
  • Grimal, Pierre. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Oxford, New York: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1987. Translated by A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop. ISBN 978-0-631-13209-7
  • Herm, Gerhard. The Celts. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. ISBN 978-0-312-12705-3.
  • Holst, Sanford. Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage. Los Angeles, CA: Santorini Publishing, 2021. Second edition. ISBN 978-1-945199-05-9.
  • Holland, Tom. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. New York: Anchor Books, a division of Random House,Inc., 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-27948-4.
  • Waterfield, Robin. Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-009576-5

See also sections below: User:Donner60/Ancient, Medieval and Miscellaneous History Library#Britain; England; Scotland

Roman Republic and Roman Empire (Most Before or to 476 AD, Some Later Chapters)

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Byzantine Empire

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  • Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-40796-2.
  • Bury, J. B. History of the Later Roman Empire: From the death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian. Volume 2. New York: Dover, 1958. ISBN 978-0-486-20399-7. (Age of Justinian) {Volume 1 is German Conquest of the West)
  • Crowley, Roger. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and The West. New York: Hyperion, 2005. ISBN 978-1-4013-0850-6.
  • Haldon, John. The Byzantine Wars. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7524-4565-6.
  • Heather, Peter. Rome Resurgent:War and Empire in the Age of Justinian. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ((ISBN|978-0-19-936274-5}}.
  • Luttwak, Edward N. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-06207-8.
  • Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: The Early Centuries. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. ISBN 978-0-394-53778-8. Fourth Printing, 1994. Originally published London: Viking, 1988.
  • Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: The Apogee. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. ISBN 978-0-394-53779-5. Eight Printing, 1997. Originally published London, Viking, 1991.
  • Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: Decline and Fall. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. ISBN 978-0-679-41650-0. Second Printing. Originally published London: Viking, 1995.
  • Norwich, John Julius. A Short History of Byzantium. New York: Vintage Books, 1999. ISBN 978-0-679-77269-9. Originally published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and in Great Britain by Viking, London, in 1997. Abridgement of three volumes published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988, 1991, 1995.
  • Phillips, Jonathan. The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. ISBN 978-0-14-303590-9. Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2004..
  • Wells, Colin. Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World. New York: Delta (Bantam Dell), 2007. ISBN 978-0-553-38273-0.

Dark Ages; Middle Ages

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  • Bishop, Morris. The Middle Ages. Mariner Books. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. ISBN 978-0-618-05703-0.
  • Bury, J. B. The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Reissue. ISBN 978-0-393-00388-8. Originally published 1927. (also in Roman Republic and Roman Empire to 476 A.D. section)
  • Chambers, James. The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe. New York: Atheneum, 1985. ISBN 978-0-689-10942-3.
  • Gillingham, John. The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England. in England section below.
  • Heather, Peter. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-515954-7. First published in Great Britain by Macmillan, 2009. (also listed under Roman Empire)
  • Holland, Tom. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire. New York: Anchor Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-307-47365-3.
  • Holland, Tom. Millennium: A Blaze of colour lights up the Dark Ages. London: Abacus, 2009. ISBN 978-0-349-11972-4. First published in Great Britain by Little Brown, 2008.
  • Holmes, George. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-19-820073-4.
  • Huizinga, Johan. The Autumn of the Middle Ages. translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1996. ISBN 978-0-226-35992-2.
  • Morris, Marc. The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400-1066. New York, Pegasus Books, 2022. (Hardcover edition 2021.) ISBN 978-1-63936-211-0.
  • Tuchman, Barbara W.. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. ISBN 978-0-394-40026-6.
  • Wood, Michael. In Search of the Dark Ages. Under Britain; England; Ireland. Book is about the period in Britain.

Vikings

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  • Brownworth, Lars. The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings. United Kingdom: Crux Publishing Ltd., 2014. ISBN 978-1-909979-12-3.
  • Fitzhugh, William W. and Elisabeth I. Ward, eds. Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2000. ISBN 978-1-56098-995-0.
  • Haywood, John. North Men: The Viking Saga: AD 793-1241. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-250-10614-8.
  • Jones, Gwyn. A History of the Vikings. Revised Edition. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN 978-0-19-215882-6. First published 1968.
  • Pendlesonn, KRG. The Vikings. New York, London: Windward, 1980. ISBN 978-0-8317-9146-9.
  • Sawyer, Peter, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Reissued 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-285434-6.
  • Skeie, Tore. Translated by Alison McCullough. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire. London: Pushkin Press, 2022. Originally published Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2018. (Also under Britain)
  • Wahlgren, Erik. The Vikings in America. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1986. ISBN 978-0-500-02109-5.
  • Williams, Gareth, Peter Pentz and Matthias Wemhoff, eds. Vikings: Life and Legend. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8014-7942-7. First published London: British Museum Press, 2014.
  • Winroth, Anders. The Age of the Vikings. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-691-16929-3.
  • Wilson, David M., ed. The Northern World: The History and Heritage of Northern Europe AD 400—1100. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, Publishers, 1980. ISBN 978-0-8109-1365-3.

Crusades; Religious Wars; Thirty Years War

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Military orders

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  • Barber, Malcolm. The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-521-55872-3. First published 1994.
  • Barber, Malcolm. The Trial of the Templars. 2nd Edition. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Barber, Malcolm and Keith Bate. The Templars: Selected Sources Translated and Annotated. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7190-5110-4. Originally published in hardcover, 2002.
  • Haag, Michael. The Templars: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons: A Guide to Templar History, Culture, and Locations. New York: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-177593-2.
  • Hill, Paul (author). The Knights Templar at War, 1120-1312. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Military, 2018. ISBN 978-1-47387-492-3.
  • Holst, Sanford. Origin of the Templars and the Origin of the Vatican's Power. Los Angeles: Santorini Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-945199-00-4.
  • Howarth, Stephen. The Knights Templar. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993. ISBN 978-0-88029-663-2.
  • Jones, Dan. The Templars, The Rise and the Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors. New York: Viking, 2017. ISBN 978-0-525-42830-5.
  • Lord, Evelyn. The Knights Templar in Britain. In Britain section.
  • Nicholson, Helen. A Brief History of the Knights Templar. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7624-3848-8.
  • Nicholson, Helen. The Knights Hospitaller. Suffolk, UK and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84383-038-2.
  • Partner, Peter. The Knights Templar and their Myth. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1987. ISBN 978-0-89281-273-8.
  • Pernoud, Régine. The Templars: Knights of Christ. Translated by Henry Taylor. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-58617-302-9.
  • Ralls, Karen. Knights Templar Encyclopedia: The Essential Guide to the People, Places, Events & Symbols of the Order of the Temple. Pompton Plains, NJ: The Career Press, Inc., 2007. ISBN 978-156414-926-8.
  • Ralls, Karen. The Templars and the Grail: Knights of the Quest. Wheaton, IL: The Theosophical Publishing House, 2003. ISBN 978-0-8356-0807-7.
  • Seward, Desmond. The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders. London, New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Revised edition. ISBN 978-0-14019501-9. Original edition published 1972.
  • Wasserman, James. The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven. Rocherster, VT: Inner Traditions, 2001. ISBN 978-0-89281-859-4.

Malta; Siege of Malta

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  • Bradford, Ernle. The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures, Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide. New York: E-Rights/E-Reads, Ltd., 1961 [2011]. ISBN 978-0-7592-9934-4.
  • Crowley, Roger. Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8129-7764-6.
  • Prata, Nicholas C. Angels in Iron. 2d Edition. Bristol, PA: Arx Publishing, 2004. ISBN 978-1-889758-56-5.
  • Sire, H.J.A. The Knights of Malta. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, reprinted 2001. ISBN 978-0-300-06885-6. Originally published in hardcover, 1994.

Normans

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Britain; England; Scotland

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  • Balfour, Michael. Stonehenge and Its Mysteries. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. ISBN 978-0-684-16406-9.
  • Barker, Juliet. Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England. New York: Back Bay Books/ Little,Brown & Company, 2007. Originally published London: 2005. ISBN 978-0-316-01504-2.
  • Blair, Peter Hunter. Roman Britain and Early England, 55 B.C.-A.D. 871. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. ISBN 978-0-393-00361-1.
  • Campbell, James, ed. The Anglo-Saxons. New York: Penguin Books, 1991. ISBN 978-0-14-014395-9. Originally published London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1982.
  • Danziger, Danny and John Gillingham. 1215: The Year of the Magna Carta. New York: Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, 2011. Originally published Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7432-5778-7
  • Davies, Huw J. The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-300-21716-2. 1745-1856, two chapters on American Revolutionary War.
  • Fraser, Rebecca. The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present, A Narrative History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. ISBN 978-0-393-32902-5. Originally published in Great Britain as A People's History Of Britain, London: Pimlico, 2004. ISBN 9781844135523, OCLC 59187745.
  • Gillingham, John. The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0-8071-1005-8. First published in Great Britain: London:George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited.
  • Green, Matthew. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022. ISBN 978-1-324-06449-7.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. Four Gothic Kings: The Turbulent History of Medieval England and the Plantagenet Kings (1216–1377); Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III–Seen Through the Eyes of Their Contemporaries. London, New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1987. ISBN 978-1-55584-171-3.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. The Plantagenet Chronicles: Medieval Europe's Most Tempestuous Family from Henry II and His Wife Eleanor of Aquitaine to Richard the Lionheart and His Scheming Brother John Seen Through the Eyes of their Contemporaries. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. ISBN 978-1-55584-018-1.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. The Wars of the Roses: From Richard II to the Fall of Richard III at Bosworth Field Seen Through the Eyes of their Contemporaries. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. ISBN 978-1-55584-240-6.
  • Harkness, Deborah E. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-300-14316-4.
  • Howath, David. 1066: The Year of Conquest. New York: Penguin Books, 1981. Originally published New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1978. ISBN 978-0-14-005850-5.
  • Lacey, Robert. Great Tales from English History. Omnibus edition; 3 volumes. New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-316-06757-7.
  • Lacey, Robert. Great Tales from English History. Volume 2. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. ISBN 978-0-316-10924-6.
  • Lacey, Robert and Danny Danziger. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World. Boston, New York, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. ISBN 978-0-316-55840-2.
  • Lord, Evelyn. The Knights Templar in Britain. Harlow, England; London: Pearson, Longman, 2004. ISBN 978-1-4058-0163-8. Originally published in hardcover, 2007.
  • Meyer, G. J. The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty. New York: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2011. ISBN 978-0-385-34077-9.
  • Morgan, Kenneth O., ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN 978-0-19-822684-0.
  • Morris, Marc. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain. London: Windmill Books/The Random House Group Limited, 2009. Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-0994-8175-1.
  • Morris, Marc. The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400-1066. New York, Pegasus Books, 2022. (Hardcover edition 2021.) ISBN 978-1-63936-211-0.
  • Mortimer, Ian. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 2013. Originally published Great Britain: Bodley Head, a division of Random House, UK, 2012. ISBN 978-0-0995-4207-0
  • Mortimer, Ian. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century. New York: Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, 2011. Originally published Great Britain: Bodley Head, a division of Random House, UK, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4391-1290-8.
  • Seward, Desmond. The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453. New York: Atheneum, 1978. ISBN 978-0-689-10919-5.
  • Skeie, Tore. Translated by Alison McCullough. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire. London: Pushkin Press, 2022. Originally published Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2018. (Also under Vikings)
  • Stenton, Frank. Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Reissued 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5. First published in 1943.
  • Tombs, Robert. The English and Their History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. ISBN 978-1-101-87476-9.
  • Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England. New York, Oxford: Facts on File Publications, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8160-1832-1. Originally published by BBC Books, 1986.
  • Wood, Michael. In Search of the Dark Ages. Fourth Edition. New York, Oxford: Facts on File Publications, 1987. ISBN 978-0-8160-1686-0. Originally published In Search of the Dark Ages (BBC Books, 1981).

Ireland; Irish-Americans; Scotch-Irish

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  • Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe. London: Sceptre, a division of Hodder Headline, PLC, 1995. ISBN 978-0-340-63787-6.
  • De Breffney, Brian, ed. The Irish World: The Art and Culture of the Irish People. New York: Harrison House/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986. ISBN 978-0-517-62499-9
  • Dolan, Jay P. The Irish Americans. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-60819-010-2.
  • Kee Robert. Ireland: A History. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. ISBN 978-0-316-48506-7.
  • Lalor, Brian, ed. The Encyclopedia of Ireland. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09442-8.
  • Leyburn, James G. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1962. ISBN 978-0-8078-4259-1.
  • Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Exodus to North America. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-19-503594-0.
  • Scherman, Katharine. The Flowering of Ireland: Saints, Scholars & Kings. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1981. ISBN 978-0-316-77284-6.
  • Wallace, Martin. A Short History of Ireland. Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles Ltd., 1977. ISBN 978-0-7153-6974-6.

See also User:Donner60/Ancient, Medieval and Miscellaneous History Library#Ancient World: Including Egypt, Greece, Celts

Europe; European Exploration; Thirty Years War; French Revolution

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Ancient Cambodia

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