History's Greatest Hits
(An idiosyncratic sampling of the greatest, most influential, and best-written works of history from the last twenty-five centuries)
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War
Plutarch. Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans
Benvenuto Cellini. Autobiography
James Boswell. Life of Samuel Johnson
Benjamin Franklin. Autobiography
Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution
Thomas Macaulay. History of England
Francis Parkman. Montcalm and Wolfe
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto