What are you reading? Not necessarily coin or ancient related.

Almost as much as I love my ancient coins I love books and reading. I read history of about any kind. Every now and then I will read a historical fiction as long as it sticks to the basic facts pretty well.

Right now I'm reading a book on the American Revolution. It's Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick. He has writen several very good history books including the book that the movie In the Heart of the Sea is based on. It's the true story of the Whaleship Essex that Melville based Moby Dick on.

Anyway, I am really enjoying Valiant Ambition. It reads like a novel but has details that I had never known. What are you reading?

 

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That sounds like a pretty interesting book. Like a less fictional Moby Dick. I read a book kind of like that recently (fiction/non fiction) called Last Days of the Inca Empire and thought it was a nice change up.

Right now I'm reading The Peloponnesian War by Yale prof. Donald Kagan. I've heard Dr. Kagan lecture before and he is great at breaking down Greek history into an interesting narrative.

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It's good.

 

I have a few on the go at the moment.

 

Ghosts of the Titanic by Charles Pellegrino.
Sadly the ship "Californian" had stopped in the icefield for the night and lookouts saw the Titanic fire 8 distress rockets.
Captain Lord refused to go to the aid of the Titanic until 6 am. Too late.

 

That is a good book!

 

Not exactly historical (though there has been debate), but entertaining:



Currently on p. 175 of 938.

 

- In The Name of Rome, John Keegan

- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

- Buddhism, Thubten Chodron

- Breakout, Newt Gingrich

- Killing the Rising Sun, Bill O'Reilly

- SPQR, Mary Beard

- The Etruscans, Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen

- Coinage and Money Under the Roman Republic, Michael Crawford

- Finished, and excellent: Philip II of Macedonia, Richard Gabriel

- On Fire, John O'Leary

 

Some good stuff. It looks like I'll have to add to my reading list.

 

This thread is fantastic, I'm adding some titles to my reading list as well!

Before starting my current book, here's the last I finished:



I'm sure most on this side of the forum have already read this, but if you have not I highly recommend it.

 

I love history and I enjoy learning it by reading well written historically correct novels. Thoroughly enjoying the Saxon Series by Bernard Cornwell.



And I'm very slowly and sporadically making my way through SPQR by Mary Beard.

 

Cornwell is a good author

 

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan (1974)

Currently more than half, but less than 3/4, of the way through this book which tells the story of Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Arnhem. At present British and American forces are being decimated.

 

↑ I agree. I haven't read any of the Saxon series but loved every one of his Sharpe Books.

 

If you are interested in Roman historical fiction, I can recommend the Gaius Valerius Verrens series by Douglas Jackson. I'm on book 6 of the 8 book series whenever I ever get a chance to read

 

Another good read by Cornwell is "Azincourt"

 

I give it "Two Fingers Up"!

 

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