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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 2693851" data-attributes="member: 893">It really depends on the time period you are looking at as most authors focus on a very small time frame.  Donald Keegan for example is the go to guy for anything pertaining to a World War II narritive history.  Pierre Burton is the guy to talk to if you have any Canadian history questions...Good history texts, speaking as a history major who works in a bookstore:1) Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons.  I have the abridged everyman's library edition.  It's pretty good.  God help you if you try and find (nevermind read) the full text, I belive it's 17 or 18 volumes.  At any rate dispite the dencity of the material and the fact that Gibbons is writing in an 18th century style it's THE definative source for material on the Roman Empire after the Pax Romana.2) The Last Knight by Norman Cantor.  This is an intersting book primarally about John of Gaunt who was sort of the 14th century's equivilent of General Mac Arthur, Howard Huges, L Ron Hubbard, and a Rockefeller rolled into one.  Great narrative history, much more readable that Gibbons.  Norman Cantor has a few other books out about the late middle ages though the names escape me at the moment... There is one about the plauge and another about the war of the roses but that's all I remember.3) Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.  Hey it's Monty Python does history... what can I say it's great and largely accurate.There is also a series out right now that my store has in the bargin section called "A Brief History of (something)"  They are pretty good overviews of everything from the Vikings to the Boxer Rebellion.  Nothing I would use in a paper but they are very readable.</blockquote>

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