“I’ve raised my sheep and goats and vegetables on this piece of land for hundreds of years and not had a central government. Why do I need one now?”1


Non-Fiction

1177BC - The Year Civilization Collapsed

  • investigates the causes of the Bronze Age collapse in the Near East and Aegean

A History of Religious Ideas Vol 1

  • comprehensive and detailed overview of world religions in historical order

A History of the World in 12 Maps

  • history of map making

Afghanistan - A Cultural and Political History

  • comprehensive overview of Afghan history

Afghanistan - A Military History from Alexander The Great to the War Against the Taliban

  • comprehensive overview of Afghan military history

Afghanistan - Graveyard of Empires

  • basic overview of Afghan history

Ancestral Journeys

  • history of the peopling of Europe. Heavy on genetic studies.

Armageddon Averted

  • history of the collapse of the USSR and post-Soviet Russia up to 2008

Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe

  • a series of 50 maps that show the history of Eastern Europe

History’s Greatest Lies

  • covers various things commonly taught in history and uncovers the truth about them’

Pagans The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

  • history of the transition from Paganism to Christianity

Pukhtun - An Insight

  • covers the history of the Pukhtun/Pashtun people

SPQR

  • history of Ancient Rome

The Afghanistan Papers - A Secret History of the War

  • history of the US war in Afghanistan (2001-2021)

The Crusades

  • history of the popular crusades

The Early Church

  • overview of the early Christian church

The Horse The Wheel And Language

  • ethno-linguistic history of the Indo-Europeans

The Scythians

  • history of the Scythians and related peoples

Historical Fiction Novels

Alamut

Samarkand

The Judas Blossom

Footnotes

  1. The Afghanistan Papers - A Secret History of the War