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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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Gripping narrative of Rome's transformation from republic to empire, from Sulla's march on Rome to Julius Caesar's assassination.

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The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

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Account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy and the catastrophic Roman defeat at Cannae, the tactical masterpiece that still influences military thought.

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The Savage Storm
The Savage Storm

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A Savage War
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Hue 1968

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Gripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.

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The Peloponnesian War

Donald Kagan

2003

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Kagan's single-volume masterpiece covering the entire war between Athens and Sparta.

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Gates of Fire

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A vivid fictional account of the 300 Spartans who held the pass at Thermopylae. Widely regarded as the finest military historical novel ever written.

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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

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Holland's gripping narrative of the Persian invasions of Greece, from Marathon to Salamis, and how a tiny Greek coalition stopped the mightiest empire on earth.

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The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC

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Ancient warfare

John Carman

1999

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The Art of War
The Art of War

孙武

1900

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The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu

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Discovering famous battles -- ancient warfare
Discovering famous battles -- ancient warfare

Jeff Fletcher

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Bible
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A Christian Bible is a set of books divided into the Old and New Testament that a Christian denomination has, at some point in their past or present, regarded as divinely inspired scripture.

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Art of Ancient Warfare

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The Time Machine
The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

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The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: th...

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Ancient Warfare

Harry Sidebottom

2005

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"This book explores the ways in which ancient society thought about conflict. Many aspects of ancient warfare are examined from philosophy to the technical skills needed to fight"--Provided by publish...

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The Prince
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Niccolò Machiavelli

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The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction...

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The histories
The histories

Polybius

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Greek with facing English translation

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Ancient Rome
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Pharsalia
Pharsalia

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"In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all ...

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