The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History

Jamie Mackay

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

Eugene Rogan

The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind

Justin Pollard

The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

Paul Collins

The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

David Abulafia

The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

J.G. Manning

Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World

Stephen O'Shea

Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580

Roger Crowley

The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean

John Julius Norwich

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Amin Maalouf