This page includes books in my personal library on ancient and medieval history and various miscellaneous history and biography periods or categories, mostly European history. General history, including surveys or overviews of time periods and some miscellaneous U.S. and other history topics are now being compiled at a new sub-page User:Donner60/General and Miscellaneous History Library. A few books do not, or do not entirely, include military history. This list may be incomplete.
Ancient World: Including Egypt, Greece, Celts, Persia, Phoenicia
Connolly, Peter. Greece and Rome at War. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 2012. ISBN978-1-84832-609-5. First published in Great Britain by Macdonald Phoebus Ltd., 1981. Reprinted by Greenhill Books, 1998. Updated and reprinted by Greenhill Books, 2006.
D'Amato, Raffaele and Andrea Salimbeti. Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c. 1400 BC--1000 B.C. Oxford, UK, New York: Osprey Publishing, 2015. ISBN978-1-4728-0681-9.
Green, PeterThe Greco-Persian Wars. Berkley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1996. Reprint addition. ISBN978-0-520-20573-4
Grimal, Pierre. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Oxford, New York: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1987. Translated by A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop. ISBN978-0-631-13209-7
Holst, Sanford. Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage. Los Angeles, CA: Santorini Publishing, 2021. Second edition. ISBN978-1-945199-05-9.
Holland, Tom. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. New York: Anchor Books, a division of Random House,Inc., 2007. ISBN978-0-307-27948-4.
Burns, Thomas S. Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, Ca. 375-425 A.D. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. ISBN978-0-253-31288-4.
Bury, J. B.The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Reissue. ISBN978-0-393-00388-8. Originally published 1927. (also in Dark Ages/Middle Ages section)
Bury, J. B.History of the Later Roman Empire: From the death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian. Volume 1. New York: Dover, 1958. ISBN978-0-486-20398-0. (German Conquest of Western Roman Empire) [Volume 2 is Justin and Justinian]
Campbell, Brian. The Roman Army 31 BC - AD 337. London, New York: Routledge, 1994. ISBN978-0-415-07172-7.
Connolly, Peter. Greece and Rome at War. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 2012. ISBN978-1-84832-609-5. First published in Great Britain by Macdonald Phoebus Ltd., 1981. Reprinted by Greenhill Books, 1998. Updated and reprinted by Greenhill Books, 2006.
Duncan, Mike. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic. New York PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group, 2017. ISBN978-1-61039-721-6.
Everitt, Anthony. Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor. New York: Random House Paperbacks, 2007. ISBN978-0-8129-7058-6. Originally published in United States, New York: Random House, 2006. Originally published in United Kingdom: John Murray Publishers, Ltd. in slightly different form.
Ferill, Arther. The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation. New York and London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1986. ISBN978-0-500-27495-8.
Goldsworthy, Adrian. Caesar: The Life of a Colossus. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN978-0-300-12689-1. First published in Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.
Goldsworthy, Adrian. The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146 BC. London: Cassell, 2003. ISBN978-0-304-36642-2. First published by Cassell in Great Britain as The Punic Wars, 2000.
Goldsworthy, Adrian. In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire. London: Phoenix, 2004. ISBN978-0-7538-1789-6. Originally published in Great Britain: Weidenfel & Nicolson, 2003.
Grant, MichaelThe Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990. ISBN978-0-02-028560-1. Revised edition; first published 1976.
Heather, Peter. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN978-0-19-515954-7. First published in Great Britain by Macmillan, 2009. (also listed under Dark Ages; Middle Ages)
Heather, Peter. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN978-0-19-515954-7.
Holland, Tom. Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic. London: Abacus, 2012. ISBN978-0-349-11563-4. Originally published in Great Britain: Little, Brown, 2003. Earlier edition: Holland, Tom. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic. New York: Anchor Books, a division of Random House, 2005. ISBN978-1-4000-7897-4.
Kulikowski, Michael. The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. ISBN978-0-674-66013-7.
Luttwak, Edward N.The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. ISBN978-0-8018-2158-5. First published in 1976.
Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009. ISBN978-0-307-40796-2.
Bury, J. B.History of the Later Roman Empire: From the death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian. Volume 2. New York: Dover, 1958. ISBN978-0-486-20399-7. (Age of Justinian) {Volume 1 is German Conquest of the West)
Haldon, John. The Byzantine Wars. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2008. ISBN978-0-7524-4565-6.
Heather, Peter. Rome Resurgent:War and Empire in the Age of Justinian. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ((ISBN|978-0-19-936274-5)).
Luttwak, Edward N.The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN978-0-674-06207-8.
Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: The Early Centuries. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. ISBN978-0-394-53778-8. Fourth Printing, 1994. Originally published London: Viking, 1988.
Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: The Apogee. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. ISBN978-0-394-53779-5. Eight Printing, 1997. Originally published London, Viking, 1991.
Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: Decline and Fall. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. ISBN978-0-679-41650-0. Second Printing. Originally published London: Viking, 1995.
Norwich, John Julius. A Short History of Byzantium. New York: Vintage Books, 1999. ISBN978-0-679-77269-9. Originally published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and in Great Britain by Viking, London, in 1997. Abridgement of three volumes published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988, 1991, 1995.
Phillips, Jonathan. The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. ISBN978-0-14-303590-9. Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2004..
Wells, Colin. Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World. New York: Delta (Bantam Dell), 2007. ISBN978-0-553-38273-0.
Bury, J. B.The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Reissue. ISBN978-0-393-00388-8. Originally published 1927. (also in Roman Republic and Roman Empire to 476 A.D. section)
Chambers, James. The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe. New York: Atheneum, 1985. ISBN978-0-689-10942-3.
Gillingham, John. The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England. in England section below.
Heather, Peter. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN978-0-19-515954-7. First published in Great Britain by Macmillan, 2009. (also listed under Roman Empire)
Holland, Tom. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire. New York: Anchor Books, 2013. ISBN978-0-307-47365-3.
Holland, Tom. Millennium: A Blaze of colour lights up the Dark Ages. London: Abacus, 2009. ISBN978-0-349-11972-4. First published in Great Britain by Little Brown, 2008.
Huizinga, Johan. The Autumn of the Middle Ages. translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1996. ISBN978-0-226-35992-2.
Morris, Marc. The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400-1066. New York, Pegasus Books, 2022. (Hardcover edition 2021.) ISBN978-1-63936-211-0.
Haywood, John. North Men: The Viking Saga: AD 793-1241. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. ISBN978-1-250-10614-8.
Jones, Gwyn. A History of the Vikings. Revised Edition. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN978-0-19-215882-6. First published 1968.
Pendlesonn, KRG. The Vikings. New York, London: Windward, 1980. ISBN978-0-8317-9146-9.
Sawyer, Peter, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Reissued 2001. ISBN978-0-19-285434-6.
Skeie, Tore. Translated by Alison McCullough. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire. London: Pushkin Press, 2022. Originally published Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2018. (Also under Britain)
Wahlgren, Erik. The Vikings in America. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1986. ISBN978-0-500-02109-5.
Williams, Gareth, Peter Pentz and Matthias Wemhoff, eds. Vikings: Life and Legend. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. ISBN978-0-8014-7942-7. First published London: British Museum Press, 2014.
Wilson, David M., ed. The Northern World: The History and Heritage of Northern Europe AD 400—1100. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, Publishers, 1980. ISBN978-0-8109-1365-3.
Asbridge, Thomas. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land. New York: CCC, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. ISBN978-0-06-078728-8.
Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. Chronicles of the Crusades: Eye-witness accounts of the wars between Christianity and Islam. Godalming, Surrey: 1997 edition distributed in the United States by BHB International, Inc. ISBN978-1-85833-589-6.
Ibrahim, RaymondSword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West. New York, Da Capo Press, Hachette Book Group, 2018. ISBN978-0-306-82555-2.
Tyerman, Christopher. God's War: A New History of the Crusades. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN978-0-674-02387-1. First published in United Kingdom by Penguin Group, 2008.
Weidenkopf, Steve. The Glory of the Crusades. El Cajon, CA: Catholic Answers, Inc., 2014. ISBN978-1-941663-00-4.
Wilson, Peter H.The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2011. ISBN978-0-674-06231-3. First published: London: Penguin Group, 2009.
Barber, Malcolm. The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN978-0-521-55872-3. First published 1994.
Barber, Malcolm. The Trial of the Templars. 2nd Edition. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Barber, Malcolm and Keith Bate. The Templars: Selected Sources Translated and Annotated. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. ISBN978-0-7190-5110-4. Originally published in hardcover, 2002.
Haag, Michael. The Templars: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons: A Guide to Templar History, Culture, and Locations. New York: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. ISBN978-0-06-177593-2.
Hill, Paul (author). The Knights Templar at War, 1120-1312. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Military, 2018. ISBN978-1-47387-492-3.
Holst, Sanford. Origin of the Templars and the Origin of the Vatican's Power. Los Angeles: Santorini Books, 2017. ISBN978-1-945199-00-4.
Howarth, Stephen. The Knights Templar. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993. ISBN978-0-88029-663-2.
Jones, Dan. The Templars, The Rise and the Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors. New York: Viking, 2017. ISBN978-0-525-42830-5.
Lord, Evelyn. The Knights Templar in Britain. In Britain section.
Nicholson, Helen. A Brief History of the Knights Templar. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, 2010. ISBN978-0-7624-3848-8.
Nicholson, Helen. The Knights Hospitaller. Suffolk, UK and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2001, ISBN978-1-84383-038-2.
Ralls, Karen. Knights Templar Encyclopedia: The Essential Guide to the People, Places, Events & Symbols of the Order of the Temple. Pompton Plains, NJ: The Career Press, Inc., 2007. ISBN978-156414-926-8.
Ralls, Karen. The Templars and the Grail: Knights of the Quest. Wheaton, IL: The Theosophical Publishing House, 2003. ISBN978-0-8356-0807-7.
Seward, Desmond. The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders. London, New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Revised edition. ISBN978-0-14019501-9. Original edition published 1972.
Bradford, Ernle. The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures, Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide. New York: E-Rights/E-Reads, Ltd., 1961 [2011]. ISBN978-0-7592-9934-4.
Crowley, Roger. Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008. ISBN978-0-8129-7764-6.
Prata, Nicholas C. Angels in Iron. 2d Edition. Bristol, PA: Arx Publishing, 2004. ISBN978-1-889758-56-5.
Sire, H.J.A.The Knights of Malta. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, reprinted 2001. ISBN978-0-300-06885-6. Originally published in hardcover, 1994.
Morris Marc. The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England New York, London: Pegasus Books, 2014. ISBN978-1-60598-651-7.
Barker, Juliet. Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England. New York: Back Bay Books/ Little,Brown & Company, 2007. Originally published London: 2005. ISBN978-0-316-01504-2.
Campbell, James, ed. The Anglo-Saxons. New York: Penguin Books, 1991. ISBN978-0-14-014395-9. Originally published London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1982.
Danziger, Danny and John Gillingham. 1215: The Year of the Magna Carta. New York: Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, 2011. Originally published Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003. ISBN978-0-7432-5778-7
Davies, Huw J. The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. ISBN978-0-300-21716-2. 1745-1856, two chapters on American Revolutionary War.
Fraser, Rebecca. The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present, A Narrative History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. ISBN978-0-393-32902-5. Originally published in Great Britain as A People's History Of Britain, London: Pimlico, 2004. ISBN9781844135523, OCLC59187745.
Gillingham, John. The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. ISBN978-0-8071-1005-8. First published in Great Britain: London:George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited.
Green, Matthew. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022. ISBN978-1-324-06449-7.
Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. Four Gothic Kings: The Turbulent History of Medieval England and the Plantagenet Kings (1216–1377); Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III–Seen Through the Eyes of Their Contemporaries. London, New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1987. ISBN978-1-55584-171-3.
Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. The Plantagenet Chronicles: Medieval Europe's Most Tempestuous Family from Henry II and His Wife Eleanor of Aquitaine to Richard the Lionheart and His Scheming Brother John Seen Through the Eyes of their Contemporaries. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. ISBN978-1-55584-018-1.
Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. The Wars of the Roses: From Richard II to the Fall of Richard III at Bosworth Field Seen Through the Eyes of their Contemporaries. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. ISBN978-1-55584-240-6.
Howath, David. 1066: The Year of Conquest. New York: Penguin Books, 1981. Originally published New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1978. ISBN978-0-14-005850-5.
Lacey, Robert. Great Tales from English History. Omnibus edition; 3 volumes. New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2007. ISBN978-0-316-06757-7.
Lacey, Robert and Danny Danziger. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World. Boston, New York, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. ISBN978-0-316-55840-2.
Lord, Evelyn. The Knights Templar in Britain. Harlow, England; London: Pearson, Longman, 2004. ISBN978-1-4058-0163-8. Originally published in hardcover, 2007.
Meyer, G. J.The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty. New York: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2011. ISBN978-0-385-34077-9.
Morris, Marc. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain. London: Windmill Books/The Random House Group Limited, 2009. Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by Hutchinson. ISBN978-0-0994-8175-1.
Morris, Marc. The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400-1066. New York, Pegasus Books, 2022. (Hardcover edition 2021.) ISBN978-1-63936-211-0.
Mortimer, Ian. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 2013. Originally published Great Britain: Bodley Head, a division of Random House, UK, 2012. ISBN978-0-0995-4207-0
Mortimer, Ian. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century. New York: Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, 2011. Originally published Great Britain: Bodley Head, a division of Random House, UK, 2008. ISBN978-1-4391-1290-8.
Skeie, Tore. Translated by Alison McCullough. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire. London: Pushkin Press, 2022. Originally published Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2018. (Also under Vikings)
Stenton, Frank. Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Reissued 2004. ISBN978-0-19-280139-5. First published in 1943.
Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England. New York, Oxford: Facts on File Publications, 1988. ISBN978-0-8160-1832-1. Originally published by BBC Books, 1986.
Wood, Michael. In Search of the Dark Ages. Fourth Edition. New York, Oxford: Facts on File Publications, 1987. ISBN978-0-8160-1686-0. Originally published In Search of the Dark Ages (BBC Books, 1981).
Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe. London: Sceptre, a division of Hodder Headline, PLC, 1995. ISBN978-0-340-63787-6.
De Breffney, Brian, ed. The Irish World: The Art and Culture of the Irish People. New York: Harrison House/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986. ISBN978-0-517-62499-9
Dolan, Jay P. The Irish Americans. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. ISBN978-1-60819-010-2.
Citino, Robert M.The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN978-0-7006-1410-3.
Wilson, Peter H.The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. First published by Penguin Group, 2009. ISBN978-0-674-06231-3.