Garett Hornwood Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 On 6/25/2018 at 4:06 AM, Mwm said: Which one and why? It depends on why you would want to read it. Personally I have a history degree and am very interested in history including reading the classics even though the information in them are now outdated. So naturally I read the unabridged version. If you're just reading Gibbon as a general reader then I say abridged. If you're a history nut like I might be called then I recommend the unabridged. On 6/26/2018 at 4:15 PM, Switzeran said: Follow it up with Norwich's A Short History of Byzantium I actually read this book a few years before I finally got Gibbon, so I could see the definite bias of Gibbon and centuries of further research as shown by Norwich when comparing the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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