I Wish I'd Been There - Twenty Great Moments in History by Twenty Great Historians http://www.amazon.co.jp/Wish-Id-Been-There-Historians/dp/0330451588/ 気軽に読めるエッセー集だけど、執筆陣がやたらと豪華だったりします 一編が短いので英語に自信がない人におすすめの一冊。 ただし基本的な西洋史の知識はあらかじめ必要。 1. At the deathbed of Alexander the Great 2. Hannibal crosses the Alps 3. Christmas Day in the Year 800 4. Venice July 24th 1177 5. Magna Carta and the King's Men 6. Rebel Leader confronts King at Smithfield in 1381 7. Ten thousand brutes in renaissance Florence 8. August 9th 1588: the Spanish Armada almost surrenders 9. The Globe Theatre February 7th 1601 10. With the Prince of Wales in Madrid 1623 11. By fits and starts: the making of Isaac Newton's `Principia' 12. Handel is fired 13. Frederick the Great and the propagation of potatoes 14. The Battle of the Nile 15. The `Uncouth Riddle' of Edouard Monet: Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe at the 1863 Salon des Refuses 16. Nicholas 2 signs the October Manifesto 17. Tunnels, territory and broken promises: France betrayed by the Anglo-Saxons? 18. Backstage at the Ballets Russes with Picasso 19. Exercising Aristotle's Ghost 20. The German Surrender to Montgomery at Luneberg Heath May 1945