Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
10 best books like Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (James Romm): Alexander the Great, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 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, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome, Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, Alexander the Great, The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
| Author | Robin Lane Fox |
| ISBN | 0141020768 |
From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time.
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense...
A History of the World in 100 Objects
| Author | Neil MacGregor |
| ISBN | 1846144132 |
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving objects...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
| Author | Tom Holland |
| ISBN | 0385513119 |
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
| Author | Toby Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 0747599491 |
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...
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0300178727 |
The dramatic story of Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire
Caesar Augustus’ story, one of the most riveting in Western history, is filled with...
| Author | Rob Goodman |
| ISBN | 0312681232 |
The first biography of the final man to stand against Caesar—whose principles and defiance became a rallying cry for future revolutions
He was Rome’s bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier who slept on the ground with his troops, a Stoic philosopher and staunch defender of the...
| Author | Adrienne Mayor |
| ISBN | 0691126836 |
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death....
| Author | Philip Freeman |
| ISBN | 1416592806 |
In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general...
| Author | Robert L. O'Connell |
| ISBN | 1400067022 |
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...
| Author | Richard Miles |
| ISBN | 0670022667 |
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.
The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians...
| Author | Robin Waterfield |
| ISBN | 0195395239 |
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting...
The complete and definitive history of how Roman generals carved out the greatest and longest-lasting empire the world has ever seen.
The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an empire which eventually included the...
