Fiction

"Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", which I (sadly) was never able to get through.

Imagine, I am one of those people who just hated history in school. As I have figured out over the years, this was because school history is so boring and one-sided. In college, I finally had some history courses that were interesting---we studied the good and horrid qualities of historic figures in one. In the other, we learned about periods of time that included what was happening at the same times as well as how things that were happening on country/global stages affected ordinary people at that time. I realized the problem with history was that you never heard about people like you and me, who are living with the decisions made in the upper levels of government.

That was when I learned to love historical novels. I really don't care about the high muckity-mucks.