Favourite Books

The printed works below are resources that History Skills has found useful in either lesson preparation or source work. Each of the links will direct you to the Amazon website where you can purchase your own copy, and as an Amazon Associate member, History Skills may earn from any qualifying purchases.

Any additional recommendations for the lists below are more than welcome.

Archaeology

'A Little History of Archaeology' by Brian Fagan

'Archaeology Essentials' by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn

'Archaeology from Space' by Sarah Parcak

Ancient Mesopotamia

'Ancient Iraq' by Georges Roux

'A Companion to Assyria' by Eckart Frahm

'A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75'

by Paul-Alain Beaulieu

'Ancient Persia' by Matt Waters

Ancient Egypt

'The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt' by Ian Shaw

'Egypt of the Pharaohs' by Alan Gardiner

'The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt' by Toby Wilkinson

'Ancient Egypt' by David Silverman

Ancient Greece

'The Spartans' by Paul Cartledge

'The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World' by John Boardman

'The Peloponnesian War' by Donald Kagan

'Greece and Rome at War' by Peter Connolly

Ancient Rome

'The Fall of Carthage' by Adrian Goldsworthy

'Julius Caesar' by Tom Stevenson

'SPQR' by Mary Beard

'Caesar' by Adrian Goldsworthy

'Pagans and Christians' by Robin Lane Fox

'Greece and Rome at War' by Peter Connolly

'The Roman Revolution' by Ronald Syme

'The Roman Triumph' by Mary Beard

'From the Gracchi to Nero' by Scullard

'Augustus' by Adrian Goldsworthy

General Ancient History

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, & Scorpion Bombs

by Adrienne Mayor

'Confronting the Classics' by Mary Beard

Medieval Europe

'The Making of Europe' by Robert Bartlett

'Life in Medieval Europe' by Cybulskie Daniele

'Medieval Heresy' by Malcolm Lambert

'The Middle Ages in 50 Objects' by Elina Gertsman and Barbara Rosenwein

'Life in a Medieval Castle' by Joseph Gies

'Oxford Illustrated History of the Middle Ages' by Barbara Hanawalt

Vikings

Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings by Peter Sawyer

The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology by Snorri Sturluson

Crusades

'Crusaders' by Dan Jones

'God's War' by Christopher Tyerman

'The Life and Legend of Sultan Saladin' by Jonathan Phillips

'The First Crusade' by Thomas Asbridge

Australian History

'Dark Emu' by Bruce Pascoe

'The Biggest Estate on Earth' by Bill Gammage

'The Other Side of the Frontier' by Henry Reynolds

'Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia' by Bill Arthur & Frances Morphy

Industrial Revolution

'Liberty's Dawn' by Emma Griffin

French Revolution

'The Oxford History of the French Revolution' by William Doyle

'The French Revolution' by Ian Davidson

'Citizens' by Simon Schama

American History

'American Empire' by A. Hopkins

'The War that Made America' by Fred Anderson

'These Truths' by Jill Lepore

Napoleon

'The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy' by Mark Jarrett

'Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Eagles of Europe'

World War One

'The Guns of August' by Barbara Tuchman

'The Sleepwalkers'

by Christopher Clark

Nazism

'The Nazi Germany Sourcebook' by R. Stackelberg

'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William Shirer

'The Hitler Years: Triumph' by Frank McDonough

' An Infographic History of Germany' by Elliott Watson

World War Two

'World War II: Infographics' by Jean Lopez

'The Hitler Years: Disaster' by Frank McDonough

'Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War' by Richard B. Frank

China

'Superpower Interrupted'

by Michael Schuman

Cold War

'The Cold War' by D. Painter

'The Cold War' by Mike Sewell

'Vietnam' by Max Hastings

General Modern History

'The History Wars' by Stuart MacIntyre and Anna Clark

'The Penguin History of Europe' by J.M. Roberts

'Empires in World History' by J. Burbank and F. Cooper

'How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century' by Frank Dikötter

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