1. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
2. Xenophon – The Persian Expedition
3. E.P.Thompson – The Making of the English Working Classes
4. Thomas Babington Macualay – History of England from the Accession of James II
5. H.G.Wells – History of the World
6. Paul Kennedy – Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
7. J.M.Roberts – History of Europe
Surely, Thucydides belongs on this list!
Surely Thucydides great work, the History of the Peloponnesian War, belongs on this list! Not to mention Herodotus’ History on the Greco-Persian Wars.