Favourite Books

Ancient History

'The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt' by Ian Shaw

'The Spartans' by Paul Cartledge

'Julius Caesar' by Tom Stevenson

'SPQR' by Mary Beard

'Ancient Iraq' by Georges Roux

'The Fall of Carthage' by Adrian Goldsworthy

'Caesar' by Adrian Goldsworthy

'Pagans and Christians' by Robin Lane Fox

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

'The Roman Revolution' by Ronald Syme

'The Roman Triumph' by Mary Beard

'Greece and Rome at War' by Peter Connolly

'The Peloponnesian War' by Donald Kagan

'From the Gracchi to Nero' by Scullard

'Augustus' by Adrian Goldsworthy

'Confronting the Classics' by Mary Beard

Middle Ages

'The Making of Europe' by Robert Bartlett

'Medieval Heresy' by Malcolm Lambert

'God's War' by Christopher Tyerman

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

Modern History

'Dark Emu' by Bruce Pascoe

'The French Revolution' by Ian Davidson

'The Nazi Germany Sourcebook' by R. Stackelberg

'Vietnam' by Max Hastings

'The Biggest Estate on Earth' by Bill Gammage

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

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

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

'The Other Side of the Frontier' by Henry Reynolds

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

'The Second World Wars' by Victor Davis Hanson

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

'The War that Made America' by Fred Anderson

'The Guns of August' by Barbara Tuchman

'The Cold War' by Mike Sewell

'The History Wars' by Stuart MacIntyre and Anna Clark

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