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Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon

10 best books like Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon (B.H. Liddell Hart): The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome, Antony and Cleopatra, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, Hannibal, The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

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...
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0300178727
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...
Antony and Cleopatra
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0297845675
The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world, and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in control of the Roman Empire, Antony was perhaps the most powerful man of his day; while Cleopatra, who had already...
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...
Hannibal
AuthorTheodore Ayrault Dodge
ISBN0306813629
Hannibal is often called the finest general the world has ever known. Setting out from Carthaginian-dominated Spain with a small army of select troops, he fought his way over the Pyrenees and crossed the Alps with elephants and a full baggage train. Theodore Dodge retraced this route from Carthage...
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...
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,...
Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
AuthorRobert Frank
ISBN0307339262
There ought to be a way to give a book two scores. If there were I would give this both a 2 and a 4.

I have been looking for a book that would update things I read in the 70s; books that emerge from the C. Wright Mills school of political economic sociology. For example, Mills' Power Elite, Domhoff's...
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
AuthorJim Mattis
ISBN0812996836
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.

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