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Thucydides: Volume 3 by Thucydides 9780371421314
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371421314Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Thucydides, Tr. by W. Smith by Thucydides 9780461689235
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461689235Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint -
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as... -
Book 6 by Thucydides 9780929524351
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524351Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint -
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780872203945
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.96The first unabridged translation into American English, and the first to take into account the wealth of Thucydidean scholarship of the last half of the twentieth century, Steven Lattimore's... -
The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.66Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people... -
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe... -
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780486817194
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486817194Author Thucydides ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432 -
Landmark Thucydides by Robert B Strassler 9781416590873
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.44Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical... -
Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today Athanasios G. Platias 9781805264460
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.93A fresh look at the ancient general and scholar's classic History of the Peloponnesian War, from the perspective of modern diplomacy and war. Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, History of... -
Destined for War: can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? by Graham Allison
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A Sunday Times and FT Book of the Year When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-sharp analysis, Harvard scholar Graham Allison... -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.34Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical... -
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Graham Allison 9781328915382
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328915382Author Graham AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past... -
The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History James M. Banner, Jr. 9780300283273
Booksplease Price: £15.80An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge "A rallying cry in favor of historians who, revisiting past subjects, change... -
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald M. Kagan
Booksplease Price: £22.74The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern... -
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B Strassler
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £23.30From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and... -
The Plague of Athens,: Which Hapened in the Second Year of the Peloponnesian War. First Described in Greek, by Thucydides; Then in Latin by Lucretius. Since Attempted in English by Thomas Sprat 9780371199053
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371199053Author Thomas SpratFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint -
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald M. Kagan
Booksplease Price: £25.06Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing... -
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian by John Marincola
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in... -
The Essential Greek Historians by Stanley Burstein
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.66"Burstein's The Essential Greek Historians is an excellent collection of texts representing the development of historiography in the ancient Greek world. Each text is presented in an engaging and... -
Introduction to Attic Greek by Donald J. Mastronarde 9780520275713
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.00Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text... -
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald M. Kagan
Booksplease Price: £26.62"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... -
Expedition to Disaster: The Athenian Mission to Sicily 415 BC by Philip Matyszak 9781399024846
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the... -
If Russia Wins: A Scenario by Carlo Masala 9781805465744
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**'Chilling ... A stark warning of Nato's need to deter Putin' Financial TimesMarch 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of... -
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor D Hanson 9781541673526
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.80A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible... -
The Future of War: A History by Sir Lawrence Freedman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23For as long as there have been wars there have been fears about the next war. Where are the new dangers? What is the best defence? How might peace come about? This is the history of how over the... -
Creation by Gore Vidal 9780349104751
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A training manual for our troubled times ... It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty, choice... -
Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the... -
Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague by Robert Zaretsky 9780226803494
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.90A timely and nuanced book that sets the author's experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of five great thinkers who confronted their own plagues. In any... -
A Storm of Spears: Understanding the Greek Hoplite at War by Christopher Matthew 9781636241333
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636241333Author Christopher MatthewFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Impr -
The Bronze Lie by Myke Cole
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy. The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their... -
Pandemic Obsession: How They Feature in our Popular Culture by Stephen Basdeo
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Pestilence entered The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupation, and domestic arrangement, were checked as cruelly and... -
The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents by Erik Jensen
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audience. This edition, The Greco-Persian... -
The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter by Melissa Lane
Booksplease Price: £22.39In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then... -
City and Man by Leo Strauss 9780226777016
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.79The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant... -
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982172008Author Chris MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint -
Josephus's The Jewish War: A Biography by Martin Goodman 9780691137391
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of... -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.52A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the...