I like the Middle Ages and beginning of the Roman Empire the most.
2006-12-19 09:08:54 · 6 answers · asked by Indira B 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Mediaeval history is full of buffs. I would recommend annals by Aeneas Sylvius. For example, he calculated the Ottoman army at the Second Battle of Kossovo (1448) to number 1,500,000 soldiers; whereas the true number was around 50,000 only!!!
Phrantzes (Secretary of the last Byzantine Empire) claims that in the naval battle outside Constantinople (1453), the Ottomans lost 12,000 sailors and mariners; whereas the Italians lost only 2 sailors. In reality (according to the Italians themselves), the Ottomans lost 98 while the Italians lost 23!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-19 09:15:22 · answer #1 · answered by Mehmet Azk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Browse the history section of the bookstore. Really look at the books, read the covers, flip through some pages. Then if it interests you, buy it!
Better yet, write down the name of the book and the author. Then go to Amazon and get a used copy for way less money!
OR...
Browse Amazon, they give good descriptions, and sometimes they have the link where you can look in the book.
2006-12-19 09:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by History Nut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are is 1 book I liked. It was writed during the Renaissance by a vernacular writer Geoffrey Chaucer. The book is called The Canterbury Tales. It is a story of 29 people on their journey to Saint 'a Beckets Tomb.
2006-12-19 11:26:32 · answer #3 · answered by wheels 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of those, i've got study Antony Beevor--Stalingrad (i'm presently examining his "The conflict for Spain) James Tobin--Ernie Pyle's war Max Hastings--Retribution: The conflict for Japan David Cordingly--Cochrane: the real grasp and Commander (I favourite Donad Thomas - Cochrane) Anthony study--the international on hearth maximum of books. i might propose Mark city - Rifles (the Peninsular war, the rifle brigade and the sunshine branch) dirt Blood and Poppycock, via Gordon Corrigan. Forgotten Victory. the 1st international war: myths and realities, via Gary Sheffield. (the two heavily problematical the favored information of WW1)
2016-10-15 06:27:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe "I, Claudius"? It takes place during the times of the Roman Empire.
2006-12-19 09:16:34 · answer #5 · answered by willow oak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like anything. Hunt and peck.
2006-12-19 09:10:22 · answer #6 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋