Greatest works of history?

What are the greatest books of history by your standards? Broad or specific, long or short, the only metric is greatness, whatever one might define that to be!


(I sure hope this is an appropriate place to post this. It's alternate-history-related surely.)
 
Well, regarding Epics, we have the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, Shahnameh, Mahabharata, and Ramayana.
 
Thompson's Making of the English Working Class is usually considered as the seminal text in English speaking modern social history.
 
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