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  • The Civil Wars by

    John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as historian and places ...

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  • A New Voyage Round the World by

    A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies

    The first great English-language travel ...

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  • The Histories by

    One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new translation

    The Histories of ...

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  • The Twelve Caesars by

    A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material

    As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had ...

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  • On Sparta by

    A vivid and richly anecdotal portrait of Spartan society.

    Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source ...

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  • The Journals of Captain Cook by

    Penguin Classics relaunch

    Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to ...

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  • History of Decline and Fall of Roman Empire Vols 3 & 4 by

    This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers

    Edward Gibbon's ...

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  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 5 &6 by

    Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive ...

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  • The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by

    Eusebius is regarded as *the

    • historian of Christian antiquity

    Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first ...

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  • The Jewish War by

    Penguin Classics relaunch

    Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against ...

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  • History of the Peloponnesian War by

    Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent ...

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  • The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from its Foundation Books 21-30 by

    The fourth volume of Livy's history of the Roman Empire

    In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the ...

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