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Old May 6th, 2005, 11:11 PM        Excellent history-type books
Anyone have any recommendations? I'm currently halfway through the second volume of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative and it's the most spectacular work on the subject I've ever read.
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Old May 8th, 2005, 01:47 AM       
Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, definitely. It covers the Hundred Years War pretty intensely and beautifully done.
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Old May 8th, 2005, 02:41 AM       
Complete History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich

my favorite, but it's actually three books :o
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Old May 8th, 2005, 11:21 AM       
Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis is pretty good if you want obscure American history stuff, but I don't know how reliable the information in it is.
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