Popular history books
Explore Popular history books on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
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- War and Peace (Tolstoy, 1869) (1812)
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon, 1776-1789) (476)
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari, 2011) (2011)
- The Histories (Herodotus, ~430 BCE) (490 BCE)
- Wolf Hall (Mantel, 2009) (1527)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond, 1997) (10000 BCE)
- The Diary of a Young Girl (Frank, 1947) (1941)
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides, ~400 BCE) (431 BCE)
- The Second World War (Churchill, 1948-1953) (1941)
- A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution (Figes, 1996) (1917)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque, 1928) (1914)
- Les Misérables (Hugo, 1862) (1815)
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence, 1926) (1917)
- A History of the Crusades (Runciman, 1951-1954) (1150)
- A History of the Arab Peoples (Hourani, 1991) (900)
- The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn, 1973) (1936)
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Shirer, 1960) (1939)
- Catch-22 (Heller, 1961) (1939)
- Bring Up the Bodies (Mantel, 2012) (1536)
- The Name of the Rose (Eco, 1980) (1327)
- I, Claudius (Graves, 1934) (54)
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Rhodes, 1986) (1945)
- Long Walk to Freedom (Mandela, 1994) (1948)
- Stalingrad (Beevor, 1998) (1942)
- The Guns of August (Tuchman, 1962) (1914)
- The Civil War: A Narrative (Foote, 1958-1974) (1861)
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Beard, 2015) (753 BCE)
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Tuchman, 1978) (1346)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens, 1859) (1789)
- Things Fall Apart (Achebe, 1958) (1884)