false 15 1178 990 true 5625101 read 4 true 297925 currently-reading 184 true 297924 to-read 264 false 599000 science-fiction 249 false 581634 fantasy 186 false 1154255 provided-image 183 false 618700 history 148 false 574274 to-get 115 false 597840 graphic-novel 81 false 460123 gaming 75 false 861732 unsure-edition 62 false 875193 do-not-own 54 false 789724 middle-ages 47 false 1161537 traveller 46 false 798006 baron 43 false 899154 smudge 43 false 1218307 second-cover 40 false 818499 need-image 40 false 849023 rome 38 false 1149301 short-story-collection 34 false 581598 historical-novel 27 false 629977 dark-ages 25 false 581581 contemporary-fantasy 25 false 861822 dad 22 false 816648 space-fantasy 21 false 581586 narrative-history 18 false 603559 historical-fantasy 15 false 581591 acw 14 false 648145 star-trek 13 false 1163694 alternate-history 12 false 648172 wwii 9 false 843594 military-fiction 7 false 1440353 western 6 false 1063783 mystery 6 false 1043826 japan 4 false 1140857 elaina 3 false 893661 biography 2 false 1063782 mom 2 false 843596 dave 1 false 4999168 anthology 1 false 2514976 science http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79762201 The Cross of Iron (Mass Market Paperback) by Willi Heinrich
bookshelves: to-read, unsure-edition
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79761709 Inside the Third Reich (paperback) by Albert Speer
bookshelves: need-image, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79759253 Battle for the Rhine (Paperback) by R.W. Thompson
bookshelves: need-image, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78961620 The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78850686 Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius (Hardcover) by Richard Holmes
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78659123 A History of India: Volume 1 (Penguin History) by Romila Thapar
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9377134 The Essential Bordertown (Borderlands) by Terri Windling
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78431766 Byzantium and the Crusades (Crusader Worlds) (Crusader Worlds) by Jonathan Harris
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78431363 History of Byzantium: 306-1453 (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) by Timothy Gregory
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4515157 to: Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000 (Palgrave History of Europe) by Roger Collins
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This is meant as a serious classroom textbook overview on a very broad subject. Seven centuries of history are not easy to pack into a book of any size, but it is done very well here.

It is necessarily an overview, but Collins does a very good job presenting the main themes and giving a basic understanding of the sources and (conflicting) theories surrounding a very hard to study period in history. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who would like to get a basic grasp of the period between the Roman Empire and the beginnings of the modern European states. ]]>