Written by Fyodor Korovkin, The History Of The Ancient World, narrates the rise and fall of civilisations in China, Western Europe, and the Middle East.
Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens depicts the journey of homo sapiens from the Stone Age to the 21st century.
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, written in Russian, narrates the French invasion of Russia and the Napoleonic wars with the essence of philosophy.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, wrote the book during his five months in prison at the Ahmednagar Fort in 1946. The book, divided into ten chapters with a continuous narrative flow, is a saga of India's past.
The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, surveys history from the age of feudalism to 19th-century capitalism.
Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years. It takes the reader on a journey from the end of the Ice Age to the realities of the 21st century.
Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads focuses on the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires and determined the flow of ideas and goods.