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  • The Carthaginians 6th–2nd Century BC

    by Andrea Salimbeti, Dr Raffaele D’Amato ...
    Series Book 201 - Elite
    Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this study presents up-to-date research on the armies of Rome's most dangerous rival.Carthage, the port-city in Tunisia first settled by Phoenicians from Tyre, grew to extend a competitive maritime trading empire all over the Western Mediterranean and beyond, increasingly defended by the best navy of the period. In the 6th century BC this came ... Read more

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  • History of the Later Roman Empire: All Volumes

    by J.B. Bury ...
    J.B. Bury was a celebrated historian who wrote around the turn of the 19th century. His classics on the Roman Empire and Greece still stand among the best texts on the classical civilizations. The period between the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. was one of incredible upheaval for the Roman Empire. The West saw Rome sacked by invaders from the North, while the Eastern Empire flourished and saw much ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Justinian

    The Sleepless One

    by Ross Laidlaw ...
    Against a tumultuous backdrop of earthquakes, plague and civil unrest Emperor Justinian I is determined to take back the lost Western Roman Empire from the Vandals and the Goths. At any cost.Born an illiterate peasant's son, he rose to become the most powerful man in the world. And behind this great man was a great woman – Theodora. An actress and courtesan, she rose to be Justinian's equal in ... Read more

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  • Constantine the Great

    by John Firth ...
    THE catastrophe of the fall of Rome, with all that its fall signified to the fifth century, came very near to accomplishment in the third. There was a long period when it seemed as though nothing could save the Empire. Her prestige sank to the vanishing point. Her armies had forgotten what it was to win a victory over a foreign enemy. Her Emperors were worthless and incapable. On every side the ... Read more

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  • The Roman Empire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Kelly ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force - employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Complete Collection of Plutarchs Parallel Lives

    by Plutarch ...
    Plutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries ... Read more

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  • The Ides

    Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome

    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
    Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius CaesarThe assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many compelling questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Did Caesar bring death on himself by planning to make himself king of Rome? Was Mark Antony aware of the plot, and ... Read more

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  • Argentine Forces in the Falklands

    by Nick van der Bijl ...
    Series Book 250 - Men-at-Arms
    The announcement of the imminent withdrawal of the British Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Endurance in early 1982 prompted the Argentinian Junta in Buenos Aires to plan a military grab of the Falklands-a siege they assumed would succeed with little resistance.Such an adventure was attractive as a distraction for the Argentine public at a time of political unease. In April the Junta, led by Gen. ... Read more

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  • Plutarchs Lives: Life of Brutus

    by Plutarch ...
    Plutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries ... Read more

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  • Army of the Potomac

    by Philip Katcher ...
    Series Book 38 - Men-at-Arms
    In October 1861 the Army of the Potomac officially came into being.For General George B. McClellan, the dejected Union troops who poured into Washington fresh from defeat at Bull Run on Monday 22 July, 1861, were to provide the raw material which he would train, equip, organise and ultimately transform from a mere mob into an effective fighting force.This entertaining volume from the same team of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Roman Imperial Armour

    The production of early imperial military armour

    by David Sim, J. Kaminski ...
    The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour. Roman Imperial ... Read more

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  • Between Pagan and Christian

    by Christopher Prestige Jones ...
    For the early Christians, “pagan” referred to a multitude of unbelievers: Greek and Roman devotees of the Olympian gods, and “barbarians” such as Arabs and Germans with their own array of deities. But while these groups were clearly outsiders or idolaters, who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating ... Read more

    $44.99 USD