Books mentioned:
Will Durant - Story of Civilization
Mason - History of the Sciences
Lindberg - The Beginnings of Western Science
Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle
Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago Vol 1&2
Friedman - The World is Flat
James - Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Smith - Hellenistic Sculture
Brion - Art of the Romantic Era
Watkin - History of Western Architecture
Rothbard - Conceived in Liberty, Vol3
Bowra - The Greek Experience
Hamilton - The Greek Way
Barrow - The Romans
Wheeler - Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers
Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged by Low)
Landels - Engineering in the Ancient World
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