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The Trojan War by Barry Strauss
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Did the Trojan War really happen?Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly translated Hittite texts reveal that Troy was a large, wealthy city allied... -
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 9780753826980
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95The story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator.Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men, armed with... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
Booksplease Price: $16.96Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street... -
The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination by Barry Strauss 9781451668810
Booksplease Price: $17.30Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC-the Ides of March according to the Roman calendar. He was, says author Barry Strauss, the last casualty of one civil war and... -
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
Booksplease Price: $16.86A "splendid" (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the... -
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- And Western Civilization by Barry Strauss 9780743244510
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Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire Barry Strauss 9781668009598
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss.Jews vs. Rome is a... -
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Alexander: The Virtues Of War by Steven Pressfield 9780553814354 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.11Steven Pressfield, author of the Sunday Times bestseller Gates of Fire, brings us an intimate and revealing portrayal of Alexander the Great: legendary hero and leader of men. "A cracking, fast-paced... -
An American Rabbi in Korea: A Chaplain's Journey in the Forgotten War by Stanley Russell Rosen 9780817359225
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25A firsthand account of the American Jewish experience on the frontlines.During the height of the Korean conflict, 1950-51, Orthodox Jewish chaplain Milton J. Rosen wrote 19 feature-length articles... -
Alexander: The Virtues Of War by Steven Pressfield
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Steven Pressfield, author of the Sunday Times bestseller Gates of Fire, brings us an intimate and revealing portrayal of Alexander the Great: legendary hero and leader of men. "A cracking, fast-paced... -
Josephus's The Jewish War: A Biography by Martin Goodman 9780691137391
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99An 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... -
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72'A thrilling read' Tom Holland 'History-writing at its best' Barry Strauss By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient world to create an empire that... -
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott 9781800244825
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.71Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at... -
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 9781416592815
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) was one of history's great generals, a man studied by Caesar and Napoleon, among hundreds of others. He was born to the king of Macedon and educated by... -
The Cambridge History of Warfare by Geoffrey Parker 9780521853590
Booksplease Price: $72.79War is a compelling subject. It is common to almost all known societies and periods of history. The Cambridge History of Warfare, first published in 2005, provides a detailed account of war in the... -
The Killing Season: A New History of Autumn 1914 Robert Cowley 9781472874320
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.64An in-depth, authoritative account of the autumn of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in modern warfare.The final months of 1914 were the bloodiest... -
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome by Josiah Osgood 9781399811576
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times' BETTANY HUGHES'Wonderful and insightful' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThe collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the... -
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'Wonderful ... among military historians, Roberts is Britain's crown gem' Wall Street Journal Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew... -
Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt 9781439102183
Booksplease Price: $15.76Hannibal 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... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.62What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David... -
Democracy: A Life by Paul Cartledge 9780198815136
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $15.47Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today -- and has been been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.55From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than...