Time stamps: 1:20 - Roman Armour 2:06 - Warhammer Miniatures 4:04 - The Greeks and Macedonians 5:56 - The Roman Republic 9:40 - The Roman Empire 11:16 - The Roman Army 15:51 - Osprey / Everyday Roman Life 19:13 - Medieval / Other History 19:50 - Aztec / MesoAmerican History 21:03 - Chinese History 21:42 - Fantasy 24:06 - Board Games
For Board Games: If you are really into Strategy then you should play 'Axis&Allies'. Its about WW2 and you can spend hours with this game. Give it a try!
Awesome to find your channel man. I remember watching your old halo forge epidemic videos years ago, so cool to find you again and find out that you like ancient history.
That looks awesome; if you're interested in learning about mesoamerican and aridoamerican cultures I recommend you Lopez Austin books, for a general picture "Mexico's Indigenous Past" and he specialize in the life of Aztecs. Can wait for those documentary vids!
Awesome collection man! Keep up the good work! I will say, there are many glaring inaccuracies in “Uniforms of the Roman World”. A lot of assumed things and even equipment that is off a few centuries. I strongly recommend “Roman Military Dress” by Graham Sumner. It is thoroughly researched book on the clothing of the soldiers.
I read The Poison King after your Mithradates documentary, I found the speculative style was applied well enough to control the flow of a biography with limited source material and matched Mithradates as a semi-mythic figure.
Curious if you’ve ever read historical fiction? Got one recently and though I’ve only ever read this one I think it’s a genre I’m hooked on. The book I got is called “Clash of Empires” and it’s set during the early 190BCE’s and late 200BCE’s (even depicts the battle of Zama) has 5 characters, Antonius, Felix, Demetrios. They’re the normal guys, Soldiers and then there’s Philip V and a Flamminius, can’t quite remember the first name. Very good book and i would very much recommend it. If you aren’t interested in that? Oh well. Someone will be..probably.
What an awesome display for your new office! We definitely do have a lot of shared interests, I cannot recommend The Atlas of Middle-Earth, Catan, and Coup enough. I'm definitely going to have to pick up Scythe and those books by Chris Pramas on the fantasy armies. Do you know if there are more than just those three?
fantastic video, i really enjoyed it. I'll be sure to buy some. You should defo do more like this in the future, perhaps more in depth book review. i really enjoyed Marcus Aurelius's medidations, though thats really more philosophy.
Awesome range of books. If you have the Histories, I would recommend Pierre Briant’s book “From Cyrus to Alexander: a history of the Achaemenid Empire”. I have just started reading and it’s not a quick read, but it provides (as far as I have read) a very good / as accurate as humanly possible history of events that unfolded in the Persian Empire if you want a detailed history. I’m enjoying it tbh.
I love Cicero, reading the transcripts of his speeches both from his days as a lawyer and from his days in the Senate are fascinating and you really see his rhetoric improving through his life. All his letters that were published by Atticus and Tiro posthumously give a great insight into both his personal life and Roman politics of the day from a first hand source. And, of course, the Philippics against Mark Anthony are always fun to read because boy did Cicero know how to slam someone.
Plus Cicero was just awesome, the only person to ever rise from the equestrians to the Senate and then making it right to the top as Consol. If you get a chance to read the Complete or Selected works of Cicero they are fantastic reads.
He was so good at slamming people, his head was displayed in the forum for quiet sometime. I have to agree however Cicero is probably one of the most interesting figures in Roman History.
His head, along with the hands that wrote the Philippics. Mark Anthony just couldn't take a joke; it was just a prank, bro. Plus, Augustus was so guilty about not objecting to Cicero being put on the 2nd Triumvirate's proscription list that he essentially boosted the career of Cicero's son eventually to share consulship with himself and collectively slam Mark Anthony together. I especially love that part because Julius Caesar and Cicero were famously at odds politically much of the time and then it's like the two sons joining up for a buddy cop movie. (I know Octavian was adopted but I still consider him to be Caesar's son).
I got a book recommendation for you. It’s called The World of the Galloglass. It is a series of paper for a conference about galloglass, a Norse-Scottish warrior from the Hebrides and western Highlands, fighting in Ireland. One paper is about the equipment they use. Another is about James I trying to gain support from them to establish James VI as King of Ireland as the same time as being if Scotland. And so on. Some letters, like ø and ð, do appear in one of the paper about the Isle of Man and sea raiding in relation to Ireland. Seán Duffy (TCD) is the editor of the book. No bó was harmed in the process of writing these papers.
I recommend the book," conquering the valley" it's a civil war book that tells of stone wall jackson. This work examines the two victories in tactical detail and unveils the experiences of the soldiers who fought there. By far my favorite book on the civil war and the ways Jackson won his victories in absolute detail and what his men were thinking and what they went through is truly fascinating.
What books would you recommend as a good overview of the civil war? I really wanna understand the motivations for political, social and economic ambitions for both sides without any reductivism.
Would also recommend the cicero trilogy by robert harriss. Very enjoyable read as well as providing a good overview of ciceros rise and fall and the fall of the republic that followed
not a bad selection you got the quintessential fantasy LOTR and safe route into fantasy (Game of Thrones) I recommend going on black library and look up the Warhammer Chronicles section of novels maybe Age of sigmar stuff (just see if its interesting, it aint too bad). D&D novels are pretty good too (you could pick up 5th Ed D&D and all the associated books, but that's your choice).
Great video Oakley . May I recommend "Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España" (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) by conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo. It's basically a first account chronicle about the spanish conquest of the Aztec people.
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great is the companion book to a Michael Woods TV series worth watching. He also did a great TV series called In Search of the Trojan War, very interesting stuff. Everything I have ever read by Adrian Goldsworthy has been really good. John Keegan, too. I used to paint those miniatures, too, back in the day...but for me that was back in the 1980's. You remind me of myself about a million years ago! Personally, I prefer hardcover books. I would recommend anyone starting a personal library should buy hardcover books and protect them with Brodart book jackets. They look much nicer, at least to me. I would also recommend listening to Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcasts. The ones on the Punic Wars were particularly good.
For an intro to north & south American history from a different angle may I suggest "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" (kinda content dense) & "1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created" (very readable epic overview). They are both great books and as a bonus the author spent about a decade gathering source material for each that he includes with notes in the 100s of pages of bibliographies of each. A sample from "1493" which weaves the personal & ecological stories of the Columbian Exchange: "Garrido’s [-a slave-turned-conquistador, an African who became a confidant of Cortés, a Muslim-born Christian who married an indigenous-born Christian-] biggest contribution occurred after Cortés found three kernels of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) in a sack of rice that had been sent from Spain. The conqueror asked his go-to man to plant them in a plot near the chapel that served as a kind of experimental farm. “Two of them grew,” the historian Francisco López de Gomara reported in 1552... They later turned around and planted those kernels, and little by little there was boundless wheat... [later] Spaniards carried Garrido’s T. aestivum to Texas, from where it spread up the Mississippi... much or most of the wheat that by the nineteenth century had transformed the Midwest into an agricultural powerhouse came from an African roadside chapel in Mexico City."
I'm so jealous of ur books... im going to buy most of these historical books thanks for the video mate. I did not see but do u also have Meditations from Marcus Aurelius?
Can you do an update video of your bookshelf? In your newer videos, we see glimpses of your "enlarged" bookshelf when you are talking about your sponsors, and you possess many more books. So, you could talk more about them and give recommendations.
Could you ever do a video on the late Roman Empire, army, emperors. Theirs so many interesting emperors and generals during that time period: Constantine, stilicho, aetius, Majorian etc.
If you really enjoy the Warrior of Rome series by H. Sidebottom I would also recommend the Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow. I am totally in love with it :D
Hadrian - The triumph of Rome, written by Anthony Everitt ... It's a book worthy of your collection. It's a biography of the emperor Hadrian (Hadrian's Wall), a much different emperor than the usual rulers of Rome. Coming from Spanish descent, with a mind to discover the empire first hand and consolidate Rome's borders, rather than waging war & conquest to add more land to the empire. Truly an interesting read.. just putting it out there :)
You probably already read it but i can really recommend "The gates of fire" from Steven Pressfield. It's about Thermopylea. It's a fiction though. I haven't read his other historical works but i'm planning to.
Interesting collection of books, but I seem to miss a few books. You have herodotus, but where is Thucydides. For sources on the second punic war I would recommend reading both Polybius and Livius. There are many primary sources that are interesting.
Can you please do a video about Roman Greece? I mean when Greece was a province of Rome, you could address points like: why didn't the city states rebel against Roman rule, how Greece became different under the Romans, why the city States didn't Ally with each other to defeat the Romans like they did with Persia.
Shiono Nanami's the story of roman people (and the greek one) are good historic non-fiction texts, and if you want roman novels, I suggest Simon Scarrow's Mocro and Cato novels.
I am always wary about making book recommendations, especially on public forums. Those who may have preferred texts might see your favorites as passe or diminish your standing due to bias. Just because subscribers ask for suggestions is no guarantee that they will respect your response. Your texts seem fine, so far as I can tell, and if you are like me you will probably shift allegiances as new writers produce new material. As Newton is reputed to have said: "If I can see far; it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." We are lucky to be surrounded by giants.
I recommend The Alexander series by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, it not a documentary but more of a story with characters with the main one being the Alexander ( captain obvious ) and it goes from childhood to his death. Really fun books , it goes away from the seriousness of a doc and give a new POV .
This was an excellent vid; the commitment of the man (and other contributors) behind the presentations. I enjoyed the review of books very much, read some of them, may want to delve into others you mentioned. What I like very much is that my interest is piked by your presentations and directs my interest to go deeper. Couple of things I'd like you to consider for the future. -In every movie presentation I've ever seen Rome and Romans are portrayed as arch villains but citizens had important rights during some portions of the empire and in fact citizenship was sought after and seen as an important reward by barbarians. Perhaps you could do something along the line of what citizenship meant "compared to" other contemporary social groups. -I'll suggest to you a book entitled "Honor" by James Bowman. The people in the eras you focus on saw life and ethics through a lens of honor. We can all understand them better by looking at their world view through this lens. More, Bowman says that there has been a concerted, and largely successful effort to date, effort to destroy the sense of honor in the West. He goes on to make a very persuasive case for the idea that when the last vestiges of honor are destroyed so shall the West be destroyed and it's a lot closer to midnight than anyone seems to realize. -May I entice you to do a series of short presentations on Roman engineering? Caesar's bridge across the Rhine... the aqueducts, engineered with so many inches drop per mile, checking for water pollution by boiling a pail of water and examining the residue. In fact their engineering was better than several present day countries. -But why leave out ancient Greece? They produced the Antikythera mechanism based on a level of mathematics and such finely wrought gear sets that everyone knew that the very physical device they had in their hands was impossible... until they saw that it was possible. The Greeks also had steam driven toys, dare anyone suggest that if left alone they would have been on the Moon in five hundred years? LOL had to get that last in.
If your interesting in Chinese or Mongolian history I'd recommend john man he has a lot of books on the mongol empire and famous people in the mongol empire as well as a few in china.
Did anyone here ever read “how Rome fell” by Adrian Goldsworthy? If so, I was curious, does it give a good overview of the reign of Marcus Auerelius, or does the book sort of start off with the Reign of Commodus?
Okay, here are a few more great reads: "JULIUS CAESAR" by Philip Freeman (The author goes into detail on the political and military experiences, as well as the incredible savy of Julius Caesar.) ..... "DYNASTY: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF CAESAR" by Tom Holland; award winning author of "RUBICON" (The author examines the reign of the first five Emperors: Augustus; Tiberius; Caligula; Claudius; and Nero.) ..... "AGRIPPINA" by Emma Southon (The author goes into detail on the life and death of Nero's mother, whom the author calls: "The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World.")
Did you read: "The decline and fall of the Roman Empire" by Gibbon? I would recommend that to you. Thank you for your recommendations, will definitely read some of those.
"the fall and rise of china" si a god bok to learn chinese from 1800-now it starts wit the opium wars i don't know if you (or anyone else reading this) are interested in recent times but if you are then this is a good book
That's an awesome book collection, it just feels so much better having them in hand when studying :) If you're interested in a tactical card game of ancient warfare (Hearthstone meets Rome Total War), please let me know, as I'm still sharing my newest produced game. Best regards Emil
Michael Wood also did a fantastic BBC film documentary under the same name, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, highly recommend if you can find it.
I am also a big fan of 'War of the Ring'. I am considering buying 'The Battle of Five Armies'. Have you played it yet and if so, would you also recommend it?
I have never played it, but from what I have seen on UA-cam and Board Game Geek, it's a good game, but not as good as War of The Ring. I would recommend to buy the 2 expansions to War of The Ring, but that is just me, since I play it a lot with my brother
Alan Nash i own the Battle of the five Armies. It is a nice game but not as fascinating as the "War of the Ring". It is like the expansion of the War of the Ring "battles of third age". I think that the expansion "Warriors of Middle Earth" is not worthy
This is fantastic! I was to hear you recommend several Roman books I already own. Are there any encyclopedias you recommend other than the uniforms of the Roman world?
Hi, this may be a stupid question... but, have your read every single book from the beginning to the end? The reason I ask this question is because I like to read and when I start a book, I like to read the whole book. But I'm not really fast (+ work & family it doesn't give me too much time to read) and sometimes some books are really thick or there are some points when that book become tiresome/boring. Thank you!
Did you read all of them? My bookshelf is filled with unread books, many of them because i dont have pacience to read. Do you have any advices to read all? Do you remember well the content of every book you read? Im asking because i know its a hobby
I've basically all the Roman books and maybe 70% of the others. Admittedly since I have started work I have slowed down substantially and just read what is relevant to the next documentary.
Invicta I see. Since youve point that out im still waiting for part 2 of evolution of Roman legions: roman kingdom. Rome II is about to launch Rise of the Republic, with the Camillian reforms and all. Seems like an opportunity to continue that project! (Please its so good)
Time stamps:
1:20 - Roman Armour
2:06 - Warhammer Miniatures
4:04 - The Greeks and Macedonians
5:56 - The Roman Republic
9:40 - The Roman Empire
11:16 - The Roman Army
15:51 - Osprey / Everyday Roman Life
19:13 - Medieval / Other History
19:50 - Aztec / MesoAmerican History
21:03 - Chinese History
21:42 - Fantasy
24:06 - Board Games
Perseus Gold oooh interesting. I'll have to take a look.
So, you got a line on where one could get some sweet armor? 🙄
For Board Games: If you are really into Strategy then you should play 'Axis&Allies'. Its about WW2 and you can spend hours with this game. Give it a try!
😎 love this video. Thanks for the cool insite.
Chinese history? I'd love to see some videos on that
“I’ll recommend a few books....”
recommends every book
Grenades and Bunnies haha I really like almost all the books here but some do stand out among the rest.
Great vid though, added some these books to my list of things to read
_Why is this in my recommended list?_ ;)
God damn this was the last thing I needed to see. My bank balance is not going to appreciate this video.
Stefan Milo Yep my wallet ran away after this video. Still looking for him.
Go to a public library, most have even the contemporary books on Rome
could always just download em off libgen if you don't mind reading on pc instead of having the physical book in your hand.
Nice, now when are you doing a face reveal?
BlueDragon257 Its in The Thumbnail 😜😲
He had actually shown himself before way back in the day before he change the channel name when it was called oakley
Awesome to find your channel man. I remember watching your old halo forge epidemic videos years ago, so cool to find you again and find out that you like ancient history.
Loved it, just amazing, specially for people like me who want to learn more about these stuff for fun but don't know any authors.
man this is exactly what i've been looking for! thank you sir!
Damn this guy just seems happy love the channel
Awesome collection! I have read several of these but many I have never heard of. Excited to dive in!
Nice collection you have there. It was a pleasure to watch it.
SPQR highly recommend very entertaining and informative
This is awesome - good to know I'm not the only one who has a man cave like this.
That looks awesome; if you're interested in learning about mesoamerican and aridoamerican cultures I recommend you Lopez Austin books, for a general picture "Mexico's Indigenous Past" and he specialize in the life of Aztecs. Can wait for those documentary vids!
Awesome collection man! Keep up the good work! I will say, there are many glaring inaccuracies in “Uniforms of the Roman World”. A lot of assumed things and even equipment that is off a few centuries. I strongly recommend “Roman Military Dress” by Graham Sumner. It is thoroughly researched book on the clothing of the soldiers.
Thank you for your mini book tour! I will definitely add some of them to my collection :)
Orderd that "The uniforms of the roman word" previous week and I'm reading it now (i'm on page 120 :) ) enjoying the book so far.
awesome video man! really interesting. I'll definetely check on some of the books you showed us. Thanks a lot!
This is neat, I'll definitely check back when it's new book time.
Definitely need anotherr library tour.
I read The Poison King after your Mithradates documentary, I found the speculative style was applied well enough to control the flow of a biography with limited source material and matched Mithradates as a semi-mythic figure.
I have "The Complete Roman Army" by Adrian Goldsworthy, I got it as a gift. It is really good, and I'll have to read some of his other books.
Curious if you’ve ever read historical fiction? Got one recently and though I’ve only ever read this one I think it’s a genre I’m hooked on. The book I got is called “Clash of Empires” and it’s set during the early 190BCE’s and late 200BCE’s (even depicts the battle of Zama) has 5 characters, Antonius, Felix, Demetrios. They’re the normal guys, Soldiers and then there’s Philip V and a Flamminius, can’t quite remember the first name. Very good book and i would very much recommend it. If you aren’t interested in that? Oh well. Someone will be..probably.
Dude! You have matured. Looking like a full grown man now.
And I would have driven North and joined your campaign.
Thanks for the recommendations Julien :)
What an awesome display for your new office! We definitely do have a lot of shared interests, I cannot recommend The Atlas of Middle-Earth, Catan, and Coup enough. I'm definitely going to have to pick up Scythe and those books by Chris Pramas on the fantasy armies. Do you know if there are more than just those three?
I think the orc one was his latest but there may be more on the way
For some reason i watched all of it and i dont regret it
fantastic video, i really enjoyed it. I'll be sure to buy some. You should defo do more like this in the future, perhaps more in depth book review. i really enjoyed Marcus Aurelius's medidations, though thats really more philosophy.
Awesome range of books. If you have the Histories, I would recommend Pierre Briant’s book “From Cyrus to Alexander: a history of the Achaemenid Empire”. I have just started reading and it’s not a quick read, but it provides (as far as I have read) a very good / as accurate as humanly possible history of events that unfolded in the Persian Empire if you want a detailed history. I’m enjoying it tbh.
Sponsored by: Adrian Goldsworthy
Nolan Meyers ive got a nerd crush
Lol, going to have to read some of his books
History Books and Board Games - literally my 2 favorite things
I love Cicero, reading the transcripts of his speeches both from his days as a lawyer and from his days in the Senate are fascinating and you really see his rhetoric improving through his life. All his letters that were published by Atticus and Tiro posthumously give a great insight into both his personal life and Roman politics of the day from a first hand source. And, of course, the Philippics against Mark Anthony are always fun to read because boy did Cicero know how to slam someone.
Plus Cicero was just awesome, the only person to ever rise from the equestrians to the Senate and then making it right to the top as Consol. If you get a chance to read the Complete or Selected works of Cicero they are fantastic reads.
He was so good at slamming people, his head was displayed in the forum for quiet sometime. I have to agree however Cicero is probably one of the most interesting figures in Roman History.
His head, along with the hands that wrote the Philippics. Mark Anthony just couldn't take a joke; it was just a prank, bro.
Plus, Augustus was so guilty about not objecting to Cicero being put on the 2nd Triumvirate's proscription list that he essentially boosted the career of Cicero's son eventually to share consulship with himself and collectively slam Mark Anthony together.
I especially love that part because Julius Caesar and Cicero were famously at odds politically much of the time and then it's like the two sons joining up for a buddy cop movie. (I know Octavian was adopted but I still consider him to be Caesar's son).
I got a book recommendation for you. It’s called The World of the Galloglass. It is a series of paper for a conference about galloglass, a Norse-Scottish warrior from the Hebrides and western Highlands, fighting in Ireland. One paper is about the equipment they use. Another is about James I trying to gain support from them to establish James VI as King of Ireland as the same time as being if Scotland. And so on. Some letters, like ø and ð, do appear in one of the paper about the Isle of Man and sea raiding in relation to Ireland. Seán Duffy (TCD) is the editor of the book. No bó was harmed in the process of writing these papers.
You conviced me. I just bought "In the Name of Rome". Very nice place you have there!
I recommend the book," conquering the valley" it's a civil war book that tells of stone wall jackson. This work examines the two victories in tactical detail and unveils the experiences of the soldiers who fought there. By far my favorite book on the civil war and the ways Jackson won his victories in absolute detail and what his men were thinking and what they went through is truly fascinating.
What books would you recommend as a good overview of the civil war?
I really wanna understand the motivations for political, social and economic ambitions for both sides without any reductivism.
Would also recommend the cicero trilogy by robert harriss. Very enjoyable read as well as providing a good overview of ciceros rise and fall and the fall of the republic that followed
Very cool, do more please maybe bookreviews like you mentioned
not a bad selection you got the quintessential fantasy LOTR and safe route into fantasy (Game of Thrones) I recommend going on black library and look up the Warhammer Chronicles section of novels maybe Age of sigmar stuff (just see if its interesting, it aint too bad). D&D novels are pretty good too (you could pick up 5th Ed D&D and all the associated books, but that's your choice).
That office is smooth.
Great video Oakley . May I recommend "Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España" (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) by conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo. It's basically a first account chronicle about the spanish conquest of the Aztec people.
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great is the companion book to a Michael Woods TV series worth watching. He also did a great TV series called In Search of the Trojan War, very interesting stuff. Everything I have ever read by Adrian Goldsworthy has been really good. John Keegan, too. I used to paint those miniatures, too, back in the day...but for me that was back in the 1980's. You remind me of myself about a million years ago!
Personally, I prefer hardcover books. I would recommend anyone starting a personal library should buy hardcover books and protect them with Brodart book jackets. They look much nicer, at least to me.
I would also recommend listening to Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcasts. The ones on the Punic Wars were particularly good.
I would love more videos like this.
If you are interested in byzantine military tactics and logistics, Maurice's Strategikon is a good read
For an intro to north & south American history from a different angle may I suggest "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" (kinda content dense) & "1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created" (very readable epic overview). They are both great books and as a bonus the author spent about a decade gathering source material for each that he includes with notes in the 100s of pages of bibliographies of each.
A sample from "1493" which weaves the personal & ecological stories of the Columbian Exchange: "Garrido’s [-a slave-turned-conquistador, an African who became a confidant of Cortés, a Muslim-born Christian who married an indigenous-born Christian-] biggest contribution occurred after Cortés found three kernels of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) in a sack of rice that had been sent from Spain. The conqueror asked his go-to man to plant them in a plot near the chapel that served as a kind of experimental farm. “Two of them grew,” the historian Francisco López de Gomara reported in 1552... They later turned around and planted those kernels, and little by little there was boundless wheat... [later] Spaniards carried Garrido’s T. aestivum to Texas, from where it spread up the Mississippi... much or most of the wheat that by the nineteenth century had transformed the Midwest into an agricultural powerhouse came from an African roadside chapel in Mexico City."
I'm so jealous!! Great video.
I'm so jealous of ur books... im going to buy most of these historical books thanks for the video mate. I did not see but do u also have Meditations from Marcus Aurelius?
Anyway you could do a update video, I’d like to see a updated library
Can you do an update video of your bookshelf?
In your newer videos, we see glimpses of your "enlarged" bookshelf when you are talking about your sponsors, and you possess many more books. So, you could talk more about them and give recommendations.
Could you ever do a video on the late Roman Empire, army, emperors. Theirs so many interesting emperors and generals during that time period: Constantine, stilicho, aetius, Majorian etc.
If you really enjoy the Warrior of Rome series by H. Sidebottom I would also recommend the Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow. I am totally in love with it :D
Thank you for this video, it's exactly what I need!
Edit: Have you read a lot of Tolkien?
Hadrian - The triumph of Rome, written by Anthony Everitt ... It's a book worthy of your collection. It's a biography of the emperor Hadrian (Hadrian's Wall), a much different emperor than the usual rulers of Rome. Coming from Spanish descent, with a mind to discover the empire first hand and consolidate Rome's borders, rather than waging war & conquest to add more land to the empire. Truly an interesting read.. just putting it out there :)
You have excellent taste, sir!
You probably already read it but i can really recommend "The gates of fire" from Steven Pressfield. It's about Thermopylea. It's a fiction though. I haven't read his other historical works but i'm planning to.
I think you like Adrian Goldworthy, not sure tho
doutzen doutzen doutzen doet ze hem uit of doet ze hem aan
doutzen doutzen doutzen oh ik kan haar niet weerstaan
Thanks now I’m only getting books for Christmas
very well made video,i like book colection!
Thanks for sharing. Looks cool.
Interesting collection of books, but I seem to miss a few books.
You have herodotus, but where is Thucydides.
For sources on the second punic war I would recommend reading both Polybius and Livius.
There are many primary sources that are interesting.
Can you please do a video about Roman Greece? I mean when Greece was a province of Rome, you could address points like: why didn't the city states rebel against Roman rule, how Greece became different under the Romans, why the city States didn't Ally with each other to defeat the Romans like they did with Persia.
Shiono Nanami's the story of roman people (and the greek one) are good historic non-fiction texts, and if you want roman novels, I suggest Simon Scarrow's Mocro and Cato novels.
Basically military history visualized.
I am always wary about making book recommendations, especially on public forums. Those who may have preferred texts might see your favorites as passe or diminish your standing due to bias. Just because subscribers ask for suggestions is no guarantee that they will respect your response. Your texts seem fine, so far as I can tell, and if you are like me you will probably shift allegiances as new writers produce new material. As Newton is reputed to have said: "If I can see far; it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." We are lucky to be surrounded by giants.
I recommend The Alexander series by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, it not a documentary but more of a story with characters with the main one being the Alexander ( captain obvious ) and it goes from childhood to his death. Really fun books , it goes away from the seriousness of a doc and give a new POV .
This was an excellent vid; the commitment of the man (and other contributors) behind the presentations.
I enjoyed the review of books very much, read some of them, may want to delve into others you mentioned. What I like very much is that my interest is piked by your presentations and directs my interest to go deeper.
Couple of things I'd like you to consider for the future.
-In every movie presentation I've ever seen Rome and Romans are portrayed as arch villains but citizens had important rights during some portions of the empire and in fact citizenship was sought after and seen as an important reward by barbarians. Perhaps you could do something along the line of what citizenship meant "compared to" other contemporary social groups.
-I'll suggest to you a book entitled "Honor" by James Bowman. The people in the eras you focus on saw life and ethics through a lens of honor. We can all understand them better by looking at their world view through this lens. More, Bowman says that there has been a concerted, and largely successful effort to date, effort to destroy the sense of honor in the West. He goes on to make a very persuasive case for the idea that when the last vestiges of honor are destroyed so shall the West be destroyed and it's a lot closer to midnight than anyone seems to realize.
-May I entice you to do a series of short presentations on Roman engineering? Caesar's bridge across the Rhine... the aqueducts, engineered with so many inches drop per mile, checking for water pollution by boiling a pail of water and examining the residue. In fact their engineering was better than several present day countries.
-But why leave out ancient Greece? They produced the Antikythera mechanism based on a level of mathematics and such finely wrought gear sets that everyone knew that the very physical device they had in their hands was impossible... until they saw that it was possible. The Greeks also had steam driven toys, dare anyone suggest that if left alone they would have been on the Moon in five hundred years? LOL had to get that last in.
If your interesting in Chinese or Mongolian history I'd recommend john man he has a lot of books on the mongol empire and famous people in the mongol empire as well as a few in china.
Did anyone here ever read “how Rome fell” by Adrian Goldsworthy? If so, I was curious, does it give a good overview of the reign of Marcus Auerelius, or does the book sort of start off with the Reign of Commodus?
He’s an interesting topic for the Everyday moments in history series.
How do the Romans go to bed?” Especially on the battlefield?
Okay, here are a few more great reads: "JULIUS CAESAR" by Philip Freeman (The author goes into detail on the political and military experiences, as well as the incredible savy of Julius Caesar.) ..... "DYNASTY: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF CAESAR" by Tom Holland; award winning author of "RUBICON" (The author examines the reign of the first five Emperors: Augustus; Tiberius; Caligula; Claudius; and Nero.) ..... "AGRIPPINA" by Emma Southon (The author goes into detail on the life and death of Nero's mother, whom the author calls: "The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World.")
Great video 👍 keep it up :D
Did you read: "The decline and fall of the Roman Empire" by Gibbon? I would recommend that to you. Thank you for your recommendations, will definitely read some of those.
I recommend you the book Africanus, the son of the consul by Santiago Posteguillo. Its the best book about the second punic war in the market.
"the fall and rise of china" si a god bok to learn chinese from 1800-now it starts wit the opium wars
i don't know if you (or anyone else reading this) are interested in recent times but if you are then this is a good book
That's an awesome book collection, it just feels so much better having them in hand when studying :)
If you're interested in a tactical card game of ancient warfare (Hearthstone meets Rome Total War), please let me know, as I'm still sharing my newest produced game.
Best regards Emil
Great book collection, do you know some interesting books about the eastern roman empire ? about the life of Flavius Belisarius of Justinianus I?
superb video
Great video
*Putting in the list to buy*
Have you read Goldworthy's new book on Philip II and Alexander the Great?
Looks like Ill need to get myself a bookshelf lmao
Awesome library definitely gonna pick some up! Anyone got recommendations for good ancient greek history books?
Michael Wood also did a fantastic BBC film documentary under the same name, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, highly recommend if you can find it.
Robin Lane Fox would like a word with you concerning his absence from that top shelf
you should buy some books about the Byzantines and check out a FANTASTIC board game called "War of the Ring"
War of the Ring... Fantastic indeed!
I am also a big fan of 'War of the Ring'. I am considering buying 'The Battle of Five Armies'. Have you played it yet and if so, would you also recommend it?
I have never played it, but from what I have seen on UA-cam and Board Game Geek, it's a good game, but not as good as War of The Ring. I would recommend to buy the 2 expansions to War of The Ring, but that is just me, since I play it a lot with my brother
Alan Nash i own the Battle of the five Armies. It is a nice game but not as fascinating as the "War of the Ring". It is like the expansion of the War of the Ring "battles of third age". I think that the expansion "Warriors of Middle Earth" is not worthy
Ahh always wanted to try war of the ring
This is fantastic! I was to hear you recommend several Roman books I already own. Are there any encyclopedias you recommend other than the uniforms of the Roman world?
and this one time, at library camp
Nice bookcases!
But no "Decline and Fall"???
Have you read Roman History by Mommsen? And do you recommend it?
Hi, this may be a stupid question... but, have your read every single book from the beginning to the end?
The reason I ask this question is because I like to read and when I start a book, I like to read the whole book. But I'm not really fast (+ work & family it doesn't give me too much time to read) and sometimes some books are really thick or there are some points when that book become tiresome/boring.
Thank you!
Have you read A Song of Ice and Fire? I’m guessing you have since you have some of the companion books, but, just wondering :)
Update 2019?
Yeah for warhammer, I still play and will gladly take some of those off your hands
What were the two other game encyclopedias u had?
Have you seen the Schnauzerface painting channel on UA-cam? He does commissions.
Just out of curiosity may I have the chaos miniatures?
Try the game 'Axis&Allies'! Great fun for over 10 hours.
Awsome stuff, just curious how do you fight the dust?
Thank you!
Hey sorry you may have answered this question but did you study ancient history at any academic level or did you get into it yourself?
How would I get some armor ? Asking for a friend
Did you read all of them? My bookshelf is filled with unread books, many of them because i dont have pacience to read. Do you have any advices to read all? Do you remember well the content of every book you read?
Im asking because i know its a hobby
I've basically all the Roman books and maybe 70% of the others. Admittedly since I have started work I have slowed down substantially and just read what is relevant to the next documentary.
Invicta I see. Since youve point that out im still waiting for part 2 of evolution of Roman legions: roman kingdom. Rome II is about to launch Rise of the Republic, with the Camillian reforms and all. Seems like an opportunity to continue that project! (Please its so good)