What to Read After Armada
Readers who loved Armada by Garrett Mattingly keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Armada is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Armada
The Thirty Years War
Practicing history
The trial of Socrates
Arab historians of the Crusades
The fatal shore
Colossus
The Spanish Civil War
Pagans and Christians
The world we have lost.
A History of Warfare
Pax Britannica
The French Revolution
The age of the cathedrals
The pleasures of the imagination
A Distant Mirror
The Origins of the Second World War
To Rule the Waves
The heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers
The Second World War
Band of Brothers
Cleopatra
In the garden of beasts
Guns, germs, and steel
Othello