(December 30, 2014 at 4:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: For your historian, I strongly recommend Caesar's 'The Gallic Wars'. It is virtually unique among histories as it was written 'on the fly'. It is almost a news account running to seven volumes.
Boru
And for a little Greek history, Thucydides's account of the Peloponnesian War is good reading.