Original sentence: For his historical fiction, he chose subjects with dramatic flavor, among others the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis to pen a the book "A Victor of Salamis" the coming to power of Julius Caesar,  Leo the Isaurian’s defense of Constantinople, the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, and the start of the American Revolution
Edited sentence: For his historical fiction, he chose subjects with dramatic flavor, among others the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis, the coming to power of Julius Caesar,  Leo the Isaurian’s defense of Constantinople, the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, and the start of the American Revolution