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Good history books on the Byzantine Empire? History of the Middle East/N.Africa? [View all]
Basically, anything covering the eastern Mediterranean / north African areas from Late Antiquity - Late Middle Ages...
I know there are tons of history books out there, but I'm interested in something well-written and captivating, not a dry-as-dust accounting.
And I realize there may be many books covering broad history or specific regions and times.
I'd be interested in all of them.
I get ambitious and buy books that end up being extremely tedious, like scholarly submissions to academic journals, which is not what I'm after at this point.
Which historians write well?
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