The Civil Wars by AppianMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The brutality of 'civilisation' and progress, then as now, laid bare through epic struggles 2000 years ago. The people, the politicking, the armies, wars and slaughter, all detailed as Rome sets itself as master of the known world and becomes the foundation of today's Western world. Forget all those other 'must reads', this, and similar original sources, truly are.
Read from January 16 to March 05, 2015
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