The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman

Host of the Fall of Rome and Tides of History podcast tells a gripping tale of the people (both high and low) who made the modern era. From Hapsburg princes and kings to English wool merchants this book does a great job of showing how everyone worked to change Europe (and with Columbus the world) during this tumultuous timeframe.

325 pages

- Tim