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Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership

10 best books like Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership (Barry S. Strauss): Thucydides: The Reinvention of History, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century, War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865, The Command: Deep Inside The President's Secret Army, Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life, The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
AuthorDonald Kagan
ISBN0670021296
A reconsideration of the first modern historian and his methods from a renowned scholar

The grandeur and power of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War have enthralled readers, historians, and statesmen alike for two and a half millennia, and the work and its author have had an enduring influence...
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
AuthorVictor Davis Hanson
ISBN0812969707
Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched & pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other....
Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
AuthorRob Goodman
ISBN0312681232
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...
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
AuthorAnthony Everitt
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor in nearly...
7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century
AuthorAndrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
ISBN0553805398
A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.
Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.
China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.
Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.

What if the worst that could happen...
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
AuthorJames M. McPherson
ISBN0807835889
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In "War on the Waters," James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and...
The Command: Deep Inside The President's Secret Army
AuthorMarc Ambinder
The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has proven to be the most lethal weapon in the president's arsenal. Shrouded in secrecy, the Command has done more to degrade the capacity of terrorists to attack the United States than any other single entity. And counter-terrorism is only one of its...
Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life
AuthorCarlo D'Este
ISBN0805056866
From the bestselling author of "Patton: A Genius for War" comes a compelling new account of the transformation of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, from apprehensive soldier to one of our greatest heros.
In the weeks leading up to D-Day, Dwight D. Eisenhower seethed with nervous energy. He had not...
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...
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
AuthorRichard Miles
ISBN0670022667
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...
Roman Empire
AuthorNigel Rodgers
ISBN1435104552
A very good history of the Roman Empire from founding to its demise in 476 CE. It's difficult to adequately cover 13 centuries of history of the known Western world in one book, but this one does it in very digestible fashion. It also has lots of pictures. Typically a given subject area is covered in 2 pages...
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity
AuthorJ.E. Lendon
ISBN0300119798
What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change—and don’t change—and how...
The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
AuthorChristopher Kelly
ISBN0393061965
A bold new account of Attila the Hun as empire builder and political threat to Rome.

History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as he was perceived by the Romans: a savage, uncivilized barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Drawing on original texts, including...
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
AuthorRobin Waterfield
ISBN0195395239
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...
George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots
AuthorDave R. Palmer
ISBN1596980206
Fateful turns, choices and escapes from certain death dominate this captivating story of the most compelling figures of the Revolutionary War. When General George Washington appointed Benedict Arnold military commander of the Philadelphia region, military historian Palmer argues, he was not...
Warriors Of The Steppe: Military History Of Central Asia, 500 B.C. To 1700 A.D.
AuthorErik Hildinger
ISBN0306810654
The nomadic peoples of central Asia—Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, Mongols—are still known to us for their legendary fighters Attila, Genghis Khan, and Timur Lenk (Tamerlane), as well as for their feats of calculated brutality. (Timur Lenk would leave piles of severed heads in his conquered cities;...
Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I
AuthorHans Delbrück
Hans Delbrück’s four-volume History of the Art of War is recognized throughout the world as the definitive work on the subject. Appearing in an English-language paperback edition for the first time, volume 1 analyzes in vivid detail the military tactics and strategies used by the great warriors...
World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent
AuthorEdward Paice
ISBN1933648902
The definitive history of World War I's forgotten front: Britain versus Germany in East Africa to secure the belly of a continent.
On August 7, 1914, Britain fired its first shots of World War I not in Europe but in the German colony of Togo. The campaign to eliminate the threat at sea posed by German...
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third
AuthorEdward N. Luttwak
ISBN0801821584
Originally published in 1976, a book which looks at the success of the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D. and attributes this success to the imperial military strategy.

'A fascinating book, well written and forcefully argued...Luttwak's formulations are as refreshing as they...
Saladin
AuthorAnne-Marie Eddé
Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography—a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. Unlike biographies that focus on Saladin’s military exploits, especially the recapturing...
The Last Full Measure: Death in Battle Through the Ages
AuthorMichael Stephenson
ISBN0307395847
In this brilliantly researched, deeply humane work of history, Michael Stephenson traces the paths that have led soldiers to their graves over the centuries, revealing a wealth of insight about the nature of combat, the differences among cultures, and the unchanging qualities of humanity itself....
Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
AuthorSteven F. Hayward
ISBN0517223260
Success often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as true in the world of commerce. A wise, witty, and inspiring leader, Churchill ran Great Britain like a great...
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
AuthorPaul Anthony Cartledge
ISBN1585675660
In 480 BC, a huge Persian
army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae
as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty.
But the Greeks—led by King Leonidas and a small army of Spartans—took the
battle to the Persians...
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
AuthorIan Worthington
ISBN0199929866
Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded the Macedonian empire from Greece in the west to Asia...
The Complete Roman Army
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0500051240
The Roman army was one of the most successful fighting forces in history. Its organization and tactics were highly advanced and were unequaled until the modern era. Spectacular monuments to its perseverance and engineering skill are still visible today, most notably Hadrian’s Wall and the siegeworks...
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