ANCIENT PUB BATTLES
Lava Dawgs
2014
NON-FICTIONAn infantry battalion of Marines from Hawaii, find themselves deployed to fight in the biggest, urban battle since the Vietnam War. The city of Fallujah, in al-Anbar Province, Iraq, has been hijacked ...
Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500
2002
NON-FICTIONHow were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and difficulties of medieval seafaring.
The Brassey's Book of Naval Blunders
2000
NON-FICTIONA fascinating catalog of naval incompetence throughout history, from Roman times to the Gulf War
An Encyclopedia of Naval History
1999
NON-FICTIONAn Encyclopedia of Naval History provides both the structure and details of the evolution of naval history over the last five centuries. A fascinating and functional research tool, it contains more th...
The Naval Miscellany
2017
NON-FICTIONBrian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King’s College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Angl...
Military and Naval Recognition Book - A Handbook on the Organisation, Insignia of Rank, and Customs of the Service of the Worlds Important Armies and
2009
NON-FICTIONThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. ...
The Iron Cavalry
1998
NON-FICTIONPlacing the reader inside yesterday's mechanical beasts as well as today's sophisticated, night-seeing machines, "The Iron Cavalry" shows how armies throughout the world have utilized tanks, retaliate...
Enlisted Naval Aviation Pilots
2002
MEMOIRThe early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, an...
Our Man In Havana
2001
FICTIONWormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts.His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he s tempte...
The Peloponnesian War
2003
NON-FICTIONKagan's single-volume masterpiece covering the entire war between Athens and Sparta.
Gates of Fire
1998
FICTIONA 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
2005
NON-FICTIONHolland'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
2000
NON-FICTIONDefinitive 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
2003
NON-FICTIONGripping narrative of Rome's transformation from republic to empire, from Sulla's march on Rome to Julius Caesar's assassination.
The Art of War
1900
MILITARY HISTORYThe 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
Bible
1200
MILITARY HISTORYA 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.
The Time Machine
1895
MILITARY HISTORYThe 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...