The British Army

Imperial War Museum, Sir Max Hastings

2007

Uses memorabilia and personal documents from the archives of the Imperial War Museum along with personal accounts to provide an illustrated history of the British Army from the turn of the century to ...

The British Are Coming

Rick Atkinson

2019

Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Mus...

British Are Coming

Rick Atkinson

2022

Tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in...

The British Are Coming (Young Readers Edition)

Rick Atkinson

2022

How did the United States become the country it is today? What led to its creation? Adapted from Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson’s deeply researched and stunningly vivid The British Are Coming, th...

The Peloponnesian War

Donald Kagan

2003

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

Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

1998

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

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

Tom Holland

2005

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.

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

Adrian Goldsworthy

2000

Definitive modern account of all three Punic Wars, from Hannibal's crossing of the Alps to the final destruction of Carthage.

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

2003

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

Ancient warfare

John Carman

1999

The Art of War

孙武

1900

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

Discovering famous battles -- ancient warfare

Jeff Fletcher

1974

Bible

Bible

1200

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.

Art of Ancient Warfare

Josho Brouwers

2016

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

1895

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...

Ancient Warfare

Harry Sidebottom

2005

"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...

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1515

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...

The histories

Polybius

1542

Greek with facing English translation

Ancient Rome

Christopher S. Mackay

2005

Pharsalia

Lucan

1486

"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 ...