My professor neighbor gifted me this book yesterday after I told him when it comes to history, I get bored reading about the details of wars, and prefer learning about the details of day to day life 

“These two men, whose lifetimes spanned nearly identical periods, were witnesses to one of the most creative half-centuries in Florentine history. As representatives of Florence’s governing class, their memoirs (a common literary form in Renaissance Florence) provide important insights into characteristic features of Florentine business activity and political experience.”

My professor neighbor gifted me this book yesterday after I told him when it comes to history, I get bored reading about the details of wars, and prefer learning about the details of day to day life 

“These two men, whose lifetimes spanned nearly identical periods, were witnesses to one of the most creative half-centuries in Florentine history. As representatives of Florence’s governing class, their memoirs (a common literary form in Renaissance Florence) provide important insights into characteristic features of Florentine business activity and political experience.” https://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=452

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I think you’d enjoy Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. It’s a panoramic of Soviet life during WWII, modeled after War and Peace. 

There are chapters that take the perspective of Chuikov in Stalingrad, Hitler in the Wolfshange, a Soviet pilot, a Soviet tanker, a nuclear physicist, a Holocaust victim, and others.