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Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235 by John S. McHugh 9781473845817
RRP: $32.25$22.73Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw 9781472145673
RRP: $38.70$25.54Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineIn 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This astonishing... -
Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney
RRP: $19.34$14.13Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, religious, political and social - that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader... -
Clan Fabius, Defenders of Rome: A History of the Republic's Most Illustrious Family by McCall, Jeremiah 9781473885615
$29.10The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic, the members of the Fabius clan were, more often than not, the hammers that forged the empire. Few families... -
The Jewish War by Josephus 9780199646029
RRP: $16.76$11.73'I am Josephus...I myself fought against the Romans' In August of AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a six-month siege. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination which began in AD 66 with... -
Roman History, Volume I by Appian
RRP: $32.19$29.57Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction... -
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin
RRP: $23.22$15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288195Author Peter TurchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Civil War by Caesar
RRP: $32.19$29.57The struggle that ended the Roman Republic.Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a "democrat" against the senatorial government; was the... -
Catalaunian Fields AD 451 by Simon MacDowall
RRP: $20.63$14.98The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive for more than 15 years following... -
War Bows by Mike Loades
RRP: $45.15$33.40War bows dominated battlefields across the world for centuries. In their various forms, they allowed trained archers to take down even well-armoured targets from great distances, and played a key role in some of the most famous battles in human history... -
Roman Legionary 109-58 BC: The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great by Ross Cowan
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world. This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in... -
Thermopylae: Great Battles by Chris Carey 9780198754107
RRP: $28.37$24.56During the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 faced the biggest army ever seen in the Greek peninsula. For three days, the Persians--the greatest military force in the world--were stopped in their tracks by a vastly... -
Forts and Roman Strategy: A New Approach and Interpretation by Coby, Paul
RRP: $38.70$27.03Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new... -
Germanic Warrior, AD 236-568 by Simon MacDowall 9781855325869
RRP: $19.34$16.89The 3rd to the 6th centuries saw the collapse of the classical Mediterranean civilization and the emergence of new states in western Europe based on the Germanic warrior society. This book focuses particularly on the men who made up the retinues of the... -
A Brief History of the Roman Empire by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: $16.76$6.82In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds. He... -
The History of Roman Legion VI Victrix: The Original Watchers on the Wall by Tony Sullivan 9781399088572
RRP: $28.38$20.15This is the first in depth study on the history of Legio VI Victrix in Britain. Brought over from Germany in 122 to assist in the building of Hadrian's Wall the Sixth Legion remained in Britain until the end of Roman rule. The book will investigate the... -
Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic by Natale Barca
RRP: $45.09$28.07This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women, in the complex social and political system of the time, to provide a full context to the historical events and epic battles of the 1st century BC. Scholar Natale... -
Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt 9781439102183
$15.73Hannibal is "an exciting biography of one of history's greatest commanders...a thrilling page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees, and... -
The Secret Traditions Of The Shinobi by Antony Cummins
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583944356Author Antony CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)... -
Britain and Rome: Caesar to Claudius: The Exposure of a Renaissance Fraud by O'Gorman, P J 9781526769510
RRP: $25.80$18.43This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history. PJ O'Gorman analyses the sources for the period from Julius Caesar's first forays into these islands to the invasion under the Emperor Claudius and the conclusions he reaches... -
Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40-20 BC by Gareth Sampson 9781526710130
RRP: $32.25$28.63In the mid-first century BC, despite its military victories elsewhere, the Roman Empire faced a rival power in the east; the Parthian Empire. The first war between two superpowers of the ancient world had resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the... -
On Ancient Warfare by Professor Richard A. Gabriel 9781526718457
$35.67Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. He has written fifty-five books on the subject (before this one) and over three hundred published articles. These decades of scholarship are complemented by... -
The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus: 3rd Century BC by Nicholas Sekunda
RRP: $15.47$10.87Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire. After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion,... -
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History by Peter Heather
RRP: $21.92$15.71In AD 378 the Roman Empire had been the unrivalled superpower of Europe for well over four hundred years. And yet, August that year saw a small group of German-speaking asylum-seekers rout a vast Imperial army at Hadrianople, killing the Emperor and... -
Athenian Hoplite vs Spartan Hoplite: Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $18.05$12.58The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies, involved some of the most important developments in ancient warfare. A life-and-death struggle between the two most powerful Greek city-states in the wake of... -
NKJV, Value Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718075606
RRP: $24.50$18.07A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at... -
The Battles of Antiochus the Great: The failure of combined arms at Magnesia that handed the world to Rome by Wrightson, Graham 9781526793461
RRP: $25.80$18.43Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India to Egypt, and he lost almost as many. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of... -
Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces 1: 31 BC-AD 195 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $15.47$10.87At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion, but continuing research... -
Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior by Lindsay Powell
RRP: $19.34$14.13The reigns of Augustus and his successor Tiberius saw an epic struggle between the Romans and local peoples for the territory between the Rhine and Elbe rivers in what is now Germany. Following two decades of Roman occupation, Germania Magna erupted into... -
Romans at War: The Roman Military in the Republic and Empire by Simon Elliott
RRP: $38.64$24.24In Romans at War ground-breaking research is presented in an accessible, entertaining, and sumptuously illustrated format, including:* A new consideration of the nature of late Roman military leaders; the author argues they were effectively independent... -
Late Roman Infantryman vs Gothic Warrior: AD 376-82 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $18.05$12.58Ravaged by civil war and pressure from the Huns to the east, in late summer AD 376 the Gothic tribe of the Theruingi - up to 200,000 people under their leader Fritigern - gathered on the northern bank of the River Danube and asked the Eastern Roman... -
Leuctra 371 BC: The Destruction of Spartan Dominance by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $20.63$14.98This detailed new study explores the battle of Leuctra and the tactics that ultimately led to the complete defeat of Sparta, and freed Greece from domination by Sparta in a single afternoon. The battle of Leuctra, fought in early July in 371 BC was... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: $32.19$29.57Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533... -
Samurai in 100 Objects by Stephen Turnbull
$23.50From lowly attendants (samurai literally means 'those who serve') to members one of the world's most powerful military organisations, the samurai underwent a progression of changes to reach a preeminent position in Japanese society and culture. Even... -
Roman Battle Tactics 109BC - AD313 by Ross Cowan 9781846031847
RRP: $27.09$16.69How, exactly, did Rome become master of the ancient world? This book examines and illustrates the tactics employed by the legions of late Republican and early Imperial Rome, from the evidence o f ancient writers. The greatest military machine in the... -
Greek Hoplite, 480-323 BC: Weapons, Armour, Tactics by Nick Sekunda
RRP: $19.34$16.19A study of the Greek Hoplite in the "Golden Age" of Ancient Greek civilization, from the victory at Marathon over Darius of Persia, through bitter inter-state warfare, to the rise of Philip of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great. It was during this... -
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus 9780199540709
RRP: $14.18$10.02`The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an `immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry 1: Cataphractarii & Clibanarii, 1st Century BC-5th Century AD by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $19.34$14.13From the army of Marc Antony in the 1st century BC, Roman generals hired Oriental heavy armoured cavalry to serve in their military alongside the legions. These troops, both from the northern steppes and the Persian frontiers, continued an ancient... -
The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136: The last Jewish revolt against Imperial Rome by Lindsay Powell
RRP: $21.92$15.84In AD 132, Shim'on Ben Koseba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Shim'on Bar Kokhba ('Son of a Star'), led the people of Judaea in open rebellion, aiming to establish their own independent Jewish state and to liberate Jerusalem from the... -
Men of Bronze by Eric Farrington
RRP: $16.76$12.51Men of Bronze is a wargame that allows you to play out Classical Greek hoplite battles on the tabletop. Players are Strategoi (generals) leading phalanxes of bronze-clad warriors in pursuit of fame, glory, and the honor of their city-states. To win such...