What is the most influential history book?

of the 20th century?

of all time? in your opinion

2 questions

The Bible

He's unfortunately right.

In terms of all-time while outdated, there is no question the most influential history book is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall

the most influential of the 20th century is probably Braudel's the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World

Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

this

Gibbon's work was really the first history book to use massive amounts of primary sources, while it's outdated today

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is to history what Origin of Species is to Biology i.e its most important text

The Holy Bibble.

judging from the responses its between the bible and gibbon

lol

Isn't Gibbon outdated now?

The art of war

So is Newton's Principia, so is Origin of the Species

still monumental works regardless of how accurate they are now

lol no, that book is meme trash

a much better and comprehensive book on war is...well Clausewitz On War

I am reading the art of war right now, it's pretty good desu

Nah the Quran is better

its to ambiguous and somewhat simplistic

I believe it has a deeper meaning to it. I was confused at first but you have to reread it to get the full understanding. Might be meme tier but still a good read.

did anyone mention Edward Gibbon yet?

The Bible

no competition.

Batman

Harry Potter, easily.

That book is like 50 pages, you can't be in the process of reading it. It takes an hour to read.

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev could've been the basis for the nihilistic and anti-religion tendencies in the revolutionary movement that resulted in the bolsheviks revolution.

Oh you meant like a history book? Not just any book?

Capital defined much of the 19th to 21th century from commies to anti-commies, so theres that.