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Early Roman Warfare: From the Regal Period to the First Punic War by Armstrong, Jeremy 9781399074605
RRP: $19.34$14.13While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed on the later Republic or the Imperial period when the legionary system was already well-developed. Here Dr Jeremy Armstrong traces the development of Rome's military... -
Armies of Ancient Greece Circa 500 to 338 BC: History, Organization & Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781526751898
RRP: $32.25$27.63Conflict was rife among the Greeks of the Classical period, including some of the most famous wars and battles of the whole ancient period, such as the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, the Spartans' heroic last stand at Thermopylae, the gruelling... -
Armies of the Roman Republic 264-30 BC: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
$34.31The period covered in this book saw the Roman Republic face its greatest military challenges. In 264 the Romans were pitted against the might of Carthage in the first of the three Punic Wars, which would push Rome to the brink but end with the... -
Early Roman Warfare: From the Regal Period to the First Punic War by Jeremy Armstrong 9781781592540
RRP: $25.79$9.02While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed on the later Republic or the Imperial period when the legionary system was already well-developed. Here Dr. Jeremy Armstrong traces the development of Rome's military... -
Ninja: Unmasking the Myth by Stephen Turnbull 9781473850422
RRP: $32.25$28.52The ninja is a well-known phenomenon in Japanese military culture, a fighter who is widely regarded as the world s greatest exponent of secret warfare. He infiltrates castles, gathers vital intelligence and wields a deadly knife in the dark. His easily... -
Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527-1071 by Brian Todd Carey
RRP: $19.34$14.13In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmanoeuvred by the Turkish sultan, Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to... -
Gordian III and Philip the Arab: The Roman Empire at a Crossroads by Ilkka Syvanne 9781526786753
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Macedonian Phalangite vs Persian Warrior by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $18.05$12.58In August 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire and systematically set about its conquest. At the core of Alexander's army were 10,000 members of the phalanx, the phalangites. Armed with a long pike and fighting in formations up to 16... -
Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336-30 BC: War at Sea from Alexander to Actium by Michael Paul Pitassi
RRP: $38.70$27.03The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race between the Successor States that culminated in a plethora of ship types and... -
Antigonus The One-Eyed: Greatest of the Successors by Jeff Champion 9781526774897
RRP: $16.76$11.73Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors.' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to... -
Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World by Myke Cole
RRP: $19.34$14.13From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the... -
Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome by Hughes, Ian 9781781590096
RRP: $25.79$18.42Attila the Hun is a household name. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next two decades. Attila bullied and manipulated both halves of the Roman empire, forcing successive emperors to make tribute payments or... -
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome by Lindsay Powell
RRP: $32.25$23.25_BAR KOKHBA_ is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation. One was Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, then at its zenith, who some regarded as divine; the other... -
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: $35.48$30.04A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David Stuttard, Classics for All During the Persian Wars,... -
Ancient Greeks at War: Warfare in the Classical World from Agamemnon to Alexander by Simon Elliott 9781612009988
RRP: $38.70$25.55Ancient Greeks at War is a lavishly illustrated tour de force covering every aspect of warfare in the Ancient Greek world from the beginnings of Greek civilization through to its assimilation into the ever expanding world of Rome. As such it begins with... -
Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781781593578
RRP: $25.79$18.42Carthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and chequered even before her Punic Wars' against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a... -
Great Naval Battles of the Ancient Greek World by Owen Rees 9781473827301
RRP: $25.79$18.42Naval warfare is the unsung hero of ancient Greek military history, often overshadowed by the more glorified land battles. Owen Rees looks to redress the balance, giving naval battles their due attention. This book presents a selection of thirteen naval... -
ed n of the Gaels: King of the Scots by Coleman, Keith 9781526794901
RRP: $25.80$18.43This is the first full-length work devoted to aedan mac Gabrain, 6th century king of Dal Riata in Scotland. An associate of the famous St. Columba, he was the first recorded king to be ordained in the British Isles and was the most powerful ruler in his... -
The Punic Wars 264-146 BC by Nigel Bagnall
RRP: $19.34$16.19The three Punic Wars lasted nearly 100 years, from 264 BC to 146 BC. They represented a struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean between the bludgeoning land power of Rome, bent on imperial conquest, and the great maritime power of Carthage with its... -
Greek Hoplite vs Persian Warrior: 499-479 BC by Chris McNab
RRP: $20.63$17.20The Greco-Persian Wars (499-449 BCE) convulsed Greece, Asia Minor and the Near East for half a century. Through a series of bloody invasions and pitched battles, the mighty Persian Empire pitted itself against the smaller armies of the Greeks,... -
The Army of the Early Roman Empire 30 BC-AD 180: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $32.25$22.73The legionary soldier of the early Empire period, with his distinctive segmented armour, is one of the images most closely associated by popular imagination with ancient Rome. Such soldiers conquered most of Britain, suffered and avenged the terrible... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 5-6 by Thucydides
RRP: $32.19$29.57Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that ... -
Spartan Warrior 735–331 BC by Duncan B Campbell
RRP: $19.34$16.19Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best-trained, -organized and most-feared warriors of the... -
Constantius III: Rome's Lost Hope by Hughes, Ian 9781526700247
RRP: $25.80$18.43Constantius is an important, but almost forgotten, figure. He came to the fore in or around 410 when he was appointed Magister Militum (Master of Troops) to Honorius, the young Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. His predecessor, Stilicho, had been... -
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC by Natale Barca 9781526767462
RRP: $25.79$18.42In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed. Their leader, a fortune-teller named Eunus, was declared king (taking the... -
The Art of War (Hero Classics) by Sun Tzu
RRP: $11.60$8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800313224Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers by David C Weinczok 9781526781451
RRP: $19.34$14.13A wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless seaborne warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain lost glories. A young nobleman and his kin are slaughtered under a banner of truce within a mighty castle. A warrior... -
Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, Ad 284-311 by Byron Waldron
RRP: $122.55$99.68In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the... -
Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel by Steven B Bowman
$72.18The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.Sepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a medieval historian and noted by modern scholars for its eloquent style. This is the first known chronicle of Jewish... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
RRP: $32.19$29.57A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 9780801419355
RRP: $69.66$59.79"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in... -
Broken Legions: Fantasy Skirmish Wargames in the Roman Empire by Mark Latham
RRP: $16.76$12.64The Roman Empire rules the civilised world with an iron fist, seemingly all-powerful and limitless. And yet, the power of Rome is secured not by its mighty legions, but by small bands of warriors and agents fighting a secret war. Tasked by the Emperor to... -
Medieval Armoured Combat: The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven by Dierk Hagedorn 9781784383336
RRP: $25.79$19.71The "Gladiatoria" group of German fencing manuscripts are several editions of a treatise on armoured foot combat, specifically aimed at duel fighting. Gloriously-illustrated, and replete with substantial commentary, these works are some of the... -
Roman Conquests: Mesopotamia & Arabia by Lee Fratantuono 9781473883260
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The Etruscans: 9th-2nd Centuries BC by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $19.34$14.13Ancient Rome had deep roots in the 'Villanovan' culture that we call today the Etruscans. Their long-lived civilization can be traced to 900-750 BC in north-west Italy. They were a sea-faring people trading with and competing against Greek and Phoenician... -
The Real Gladiator: The True Story of Maximus Decimus Meridius by Sullivan, Tony
RRP: $25.80$18.43Are you not entertained? shouts Russell Crowe, playing the part of General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the Oscar winning 2000 film Gladiator. The crowd, having witnessed Maximus defeating several gladiators, cheer in response. Film goers too were... -
Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC to AD 30: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781526730299
RRP: $25.79$20.49This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great's death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his ambitious generals,... -
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: $21.92$19.36A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most... -
Carthaginian Armies of the Punic Wars, 264–146 BC: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781399067546
RRP: $32.25$22.73The Carthaginians were undoubtedly the most formidable enemies of the ever-expanding Roman Republic, due to their sophisticated and often well-led military forces. Although the citizens of Carthage itself, a seafaring, mercantile state by tradition, may... -
Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars by Julius Caesar
RRP: $32.19$29.57Arrivals, inspections, victories.In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), but not written by him. The Alexandrian War, which deals with troubles elsewhere also, may have...