A Hundred Years of Han (vol.1) : Being the Chronicle of the Later Han Dynasty for the Years 57 to 156 AD as Recorded in Chapters 44 to 53 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang

This is the history of a major Chinese dynasty, its achievements, its problems, its weaknesses and its failures, told by a great Chinese scholar and statesman and presented in accessible form for a Western reader.