What history book are you reading or planning to read?/ The history bookreview thread

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Has anyone read this http://www.anabasis.org.uk/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-...e=UTF8&index=0

I always thought that the Anabasis was the Xenophon self hero worship.

I went abroad for a prolonged stay some time ago (work stuff) and having packed my clothes had to decide on books for at least 2 months as I had to rent a house before other stuff could be sent on. Was an agonising choice and hurt me alot as I regard my books as friends. In the end I chose Neitzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (I have an MA in Philosophy), The Peloponnesian War (the Melian dialogue and Pericles funeral oration), Scullards From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68 (for how democracy can be messed up), Tolkiens Lays of Beleriand (for fun), and Anna Comnena's Alexiad (for her despising of the Normans).