The End of Everything

Victor Davis Hanson

2024

An instant New York Times bestseller, this “profound book” (Wall Street Journal) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are ...

The Military Revolution in Sixteenth-century Europe

David Eltis

1995

This ground-breaking study represents a new twist in the already complicated debate on military change in the early modern period. Previous writers have for the most part defined a 'military revolutio...

The Signature of All Things

Elizabeth Gilbert

2013

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition and the thirst for knowledge-from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love

The Conspiracy of Evil

Christian Jacq

2006

Despite the best efforts of the Pharaoh Senusret and his generals, the beautiful acacia tree of Abydos is dying. But the beautiful priestess Isis has an idea: to save the 'Tree of Life', a new pyramid...

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 ...