Colin McEvedy (1930–2005)

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1. Colin McEvedy

   Author of The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History: Revised Edition (Hist Atlas), The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History, The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

2. Fernand Braudel

   Author of The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2

3. John Keegan

   Author of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, The Mask of Command, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

4. Hermann Kinder

   Author of The Penguin Atlas of World History. Volume 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution, The Penguin Atlas of World History. Volume 2: From the French Revolution to the Present

5. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War: 1890–1914

6. John Haywood

   Author of The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations

7. Chris Scarre

   Author of The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome, Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome

8. R. W. Southern

   Author of The Making of the Middle Ages, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church)

9. Einhard

   Author of Two Lives of Charlemagne

10. Bede

    Author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The Age of Bede

11. Professor George Holmes

    Author of The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe

12. Anonymous

    Author of The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (Penguin Classics), Laxdaela Saga

13. Michael Wood

    Author of In Search Of The Dark Ages, In Search of the Trojan War

14. A.R. Myers

    Author of England in the Late Middle Ages: Volume 4

15. William H. McNeill

    Author of Plagues and Peoples, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

16. Geoffrey Barraclough

    Author of The Times Atlas of World History, The Times Atlas of World History, Concise edition

17. Alan Moorehead

    Author of The White Nile, The Blue Nile

18. Eileen Power

    Author of Medieval People

19. Michael Grant

    Author of The Rise of the Greeks, The Ancient Mediterranean

20. Johan Huizinga

    Author of The Autumn of the Middle Ages