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Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

9 best books like Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Richard Miles): Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire, Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon, The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, The Punic Wars, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
AuthorTom Holland
ISBN0385513119
In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
AuthorToby Wilkinson
ISBN0747599491
I have to say, I really enjoyed this book. My professor may have derisively called it "popular history", but I still love this book.

From first picking it up, it became hard every time I had to put it down. The combination of fluid, easy writing and the fact that this book is packed to the rafters...
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
AuthorRoger Crowley
ISBN1401308503
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between...
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
AuthorJames Romm
ISBN0307271641
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.

The story of Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic...
Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon
AuthorB.H. Liddell Hart
ISBN0306805839
Scipio Africanus (236–183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in the public memory, due mostly to his daring march through the Alps with his elephants. At the Battle of the Ticinus,...
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
AuthorRobert L. O'Connell
ISBN1400067022
A stirring account of the most influential battle in history: For millennia, Carthage's triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 BCE has inspired reverent awe. It was the battle that countless armies tried to imitate, most notably in World Wars I & II, the battle that obsessed military minds. Yet no general...
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0300137192
A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa,...
The Punic Wars
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0304352845
An impressive new historian of Roman warfare--highly praised by John Keegan--has written a thoroughly engrossing account of the greatest conflict of antiquity. It will grab the attention of military buffs and general readers alike. The struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage encompassed...
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
AuthorEric H. Cline
ISBN0691140898
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the...
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