27 must-read history books

I asked Twitter: What are the best history books? 27 fascinating recommendations:

1. Napoleon: A Man of Destiny (1928)

2. The World We Have Lost (1965)

3. Modern Times (1983)

4. From Dawn to Decadence (2000)

5. The Civil War by Caesar (46 B.C.)

6. A Great and Terrible King (2008)

7. The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire (1776)

8. The Conquest of New Spain (1568)

9. A History of Modern Culture (1930)

10. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (2002)

11. The Sovereign Individual (1997)

12. Myth of the Robber Barons (1991)

13. Dynamics Of World History (1956)

14. History of the Peloponnesian War (404 B.C.)

15. A Peace to End All Peace (1989)

16. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979)

17. Crassus: The First Tycoon (2022)

18. Count Belisarius (1938)

19. The Ball is Round (2006)

20. Our First Century (1876)

21. Dracula: Prince of Many Faces (1989)

22. A Financial History of Western Europe (1984)

23. King Leopold's Ghost (1998)

24. Black Rednecks & White Liberals (2005)

25. Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

26. The Ancient City (1864)

27. Carnage and Culture (2001)