I read Thucydides twice while in high school. It is both fascinating and difficult at the same time.
I really think everyone should read Churchill’s 6, or was it 5, volume History Of WWII. Extremely long but very readable.
I have read all of Bracken’s novels. My favorites are “Red Cliffs Of Zerhoun” and “Castigo Cay’.
I rid myself of the TV and read now. Just finished within the last six months;
Tennessee's Civil War Battlefields by Randy Bishop
Rediscovering Americanism by Mark Levin
Magnificent Destiny by Paul Wellman
Paul McCartney, The Life, by Phillip Norman
George S. Patton by Micharl Keane
Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozac
Mexifornia by Victor Davis Hanson
Hap Arnold by Bill Yenne
American Warrior by Gary O'Neal
Currently reading Breakout and Pursuit by Martin Blumenson