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For a more contemporary historian I have to go with Harold Lamb. I have read all his books (paperbacks that were within budget) on The Crusades, Alexander the Great, Ghenghis Khan, Omar Khayam.
His style of writing history is writing it as a novel and not cut and dry facts and figures. Extremely easy AND enjoyable to read.
For example, in The Crusades, he explains how and why the German Crusaders adopted the black cross bordered in white. I always wondered where that came from.
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