History in 3 V

I noticed, already some time ago, that quite a big number of history books are published in three volumes. E.g. Runciman "History of the crusades", Sumption "History of the Hundred years war", Braudel "History of every day life", Norwich "Byzantium",...
I was wondering if any one has more of these titles, becaus eI think it could form a nice collecting theme.

One example springs immediately to mind, John Lothrop Motley's RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC. Happy hunting! -- Goddard

Wonderful, this one is completely new to me. Thanks

Alan Moorehead : "The Desert War Trilogy"
H.A.L. Fisher : "A History of Europe"
Martin Gilbert : "The Holocaust"
Robin Lane Fox : "Pagans and Christians"
Jan Morris : "Pax Britannica"
David G. Chandler : "The Campaigns of Napoleon"
Shelby Foote : "The Civil War - A Narrative"

and so on....

There's the English Civil War set by C V Wedgwood the King's Peace, The King's War & Trial of Charles I.

I have a 3-volume set called The World of Physics:

1 - The Aristotelian Cosmos and the Newtonian System
2 - The Einstein Universe and the Bohr Atom
3 - The Evolutionary Cosmos and the Limits of Science

These were sold individually and as a boxed set. There's more history of science than formulaic science so I hope this will be OK for you. I have also the Feynman Lecture series (3 v.) but that is more science than history.

James

This is all very interesting. Several of these sets are completely new to me.

Peter Ackroyd has just published volume one of a three -volume history of Britain - Foundation The History of England From Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors.

While I have enjoyed this thread, and even contributed to it, I fail to see the particular magic in triplex sets, as distinct from duplex, quadruplex, etc. But as long as we're about it, I think there is set of Gibbon, edited by JB Bury, which is in three volumes. One of the book clubs used to offer it as a premium. Happy hunting!

Edwin Emerson, Jr.'s A History of the Nineteenth Century Year By Year, originally published in 1901, is pretty dire as history (the structure pretty much enforces an artless one-damn-thing-after-another chronicle, rather than a coherent interpretation of events), but it's an attractive three-volume set with some lovely color illustrations.

Bysantium history in three volumes by John Julius Norwich

More contemporary but the last volume of Rick Atkinson's Liberation Triology is due out this month, the first two were excellent, and of course there's Taylor Branch's America in the King Years trilogy. Donald Kagan has an excellent history of the Peloponnesian war, but alas it's 4 volumes.

Daniel Boorstin
The Colonial Experience
The National Experience
The Democratic Experience

William Manchester
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone 1932–1940
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (co-written with Paul Reid)

Shelby Foote's civil war trilogy.

Jonathan Israel's trilogy about the enlightenment comes to mind:

Radical Enlightenment : Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750 (2001)
Enlightenment Contested : Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 (2006)
Democratic Enlightenment : Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 (2011)

Also, "History of Russia" by Rambaud is in three volumes, at least in English translation.