The enigma of Alexander the Great has remained with us for 2,300 years....

This is the incredible story of the world's greatest conqueror, a man who single handedly changed the course of history....

Out of the mixture of Latin and Germanic paganism and the Christianity of the Early Middle Ages has sprung one of the world's supremely great pieces of literature....

Charlemagne was easily one of the most fascinating figures in Western civilization, as well as the most heroic and romantic....

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture....

China has been a wellspring of storytelling for over 2,000 years....

Chinese literature offers the most satisfying glimpse into the mysterious and beautiful civilization of China of any of the means at our disposal....

German short stories began in the late 18th century as brief, beautifully written moral fables....

The Irish have always had a knack for telling wonderful stories, and their fantastic ability has been recognized from early Gaelic times.

Russian literature exudes an atmosphere of mysticism, which is said to be a natural result of the simplicity of her people....

Julius Caesar wrote his exciting Commentaries during some of the most grueling campaigns ever undertaken by a Roman army....

Count Luna is the story of Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat who presides over a Viennese transport company....

Behind the glittering facade of 18th century European civilization lurked some of the most brutal and cynical power brokers ever to practice the art of diplomacy....

In the space of 400 years, Western man methodically set out to explore and map the entire earth....

As the 18th century approached its midpoint, commercial and military competition between the European states became fierce....

This is the breathtaking adventure of the great Carthaginian general who shook the foundations of Rome...

A History of Greece is the thrilling story of the rise to power and influence of the greatest civilization the world has ever known...

A History of Greece continues with the bitter struggle between Sparta and Athens for mastery of the Hellenic world...

A History of Rome is the story of a tiny market town on the Tiber, its rise to world domination, and then its slow, terrible plunge to utter ruin...

With Caesar's assassination comes renewed civil war. The aristocratic senatorial faction is defeated...

A History of the Middle Ages is the amazing story of European man in transition....

The story of the Roman Republic is the greatest epic in human history....

In all of human history there has never been an era as richly endowed with human creativity as the Italian Renaissance....

In A.D. 66, nationalist and religious revolutionaries in Palestine led a ferocious revolt of the Jewish people against the authority of mighty Rome....

The spectacularly violent Jewish revolt of A.D. 66 is in full swing as Volume 2 opens, and we begin our story with the horrific siege of Jotapata and the capture of Josephus....