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Contents 1 Ancient World 1.1 Ancient Greece 1.2 Ancient Rome 1.3 Mesopotamia 1.4 Ancient Egypt 2 Middle Ages 2.1 Arab World 2.2 Crusades 2.3 Byzantine Empire 3 European history 4 World War II 5 Latin America 6 United States History

[edit] Ancient World

• The Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by N. G. L. Hammond and H. H. Scullard, Oxford University Press (1992, second edition) Paul August

[edit] Ancient Greece

• A History of My Times, Xenophon, translated by Rex Warner, Penguin Books Ltd. (1979 edition) Paul August, llywrch
• Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Stateman (3rd ed); N.G.L Hammond; Bristol Classical Paperbacks 2001 - Ta bu shi da yu
• Greek Religion, Walter Burkert, translated by John Raffan, Harvard University Press 1985 Paul August
• Gods & Heroes of the Greeks — The Library of Apollodorus, translated by Michael Simpson, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1976 Paul August, llywrch
• Hesiod and Theognis, translated by Dorothea Wender, Penguin Books Ltd. (1973 edition) (includes Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days and Theognis' Elegies) Paul August
• The Histories, Herodotus, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt, Penguin Books Ltd. (1972 edition) Paul August
• The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides, translated by Sir Richard Livingstone, New York Oxford University Press 1960, Paul August
• The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World; John Boardman, Jasper Griffin & Oswyn Murray; Oxford University Press 2001 - Ta bu shi da yu
• The Greek Myths, Robert Graves, Penguin Books Ltd. (1960 edition) Paul August
• The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, Plutarch, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Books Ltd. (1960 edition) Paul August

[edit] Ancient Rome

• Histories, Livy, Penguin Books, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt llywrch, Paul August
• The Later Roman Empire, 284-602, A.H.M. Jones. John Hopkins (paperback edition) llywrch
• Natural History, Pliny the Elder, Loeb Classical Library llywrch

[edit] Mesopotamia

• The Babylonian Genesis, Alexander Heidel, 1951 (Danny)
• The Epic of Gilgamesh, Icelandic translation (Fyrsta ljóð heimsins), Gunnar Dal, 1998 (Smári)
• Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd edition (1970) llywrch
• The Sumerian King List, edited & translated by Thorkild Jacobsen (1939) llywrch
• Ancient Iraq, Georges Roux, 3rd edition (1992) llywrch

[edit] Ancient Egypt

• The Amarna Letters, editted and translated by William L. Moran, 1992. llywrch
• The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, ed. Ian Shaw, 2000. llywrch

[edit] Middle Ages

• Anglo-Saxon England, Sir Frank M. Stenton, 3rd edition, 1971. llywrch
• Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, ed. Charles Plummer and John Earle (1952 re-issue) llywrch
• Venerabilis Baedae Historiam Eccleiasticam Gentis Anglorum, Historiam Abbatum Epistolam ad Ecgberctum, una cum Histoia Abbatum Auctore Anonymo ed. Charles Plummer (1975 reprinting) llywrch

[edit] Arab World

• The Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun (trans. Franz Rosenthal), 1967 (Danny)

[edit] Crusades

• A History of the Crusades, 3 vols., Steven Runciman, 1951-54 llywrch

[edit] Byzantine Empire

• The Alexiad, Anna Comnena; Danny)
• The Fall of Constantinople, 1453, Steven Runciman, 1965, llywrch
• History of the Wars, Procopius, Loeb Classical Library llywrch

[edit] European history

• about Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and other Polish-related history books, see User:Piotrus/Bookshelf

[edit] World War II

• The Second World War, Martin Gilbert, 1989 (Rentastrawberry)
• The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan, 1959 (Rentastrawberry)

[edit] Latin America

• A History of Larin America, Volume 1: Ancient America to 1910 (sixth edition), Benjamin Keen and Keith Haynes, 2000. (Neutrality^talk)

[edit] United States History

• A People & A Nation, Volume 1: To 1877 (sixth edition), Mary Beth Norton, et al., 2001. (Neutrality^talk)