The Peloponnesian War
10 best books like The Peloponnesian War (Donald Kagan): Alexander the Great, History of the Peloponnesian War, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, A History of My Times, The Persian Expedition, The Campaigns of Alexander, The Civil War, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
| 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...
History of the Peloponnesian War
| Author | Thucydides |
| ISBN | 0140440399 |
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...
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,...
| Author | Xenophon |
| ISBN | 0140441751 |
Thucydides' magisterial history told of the unhappy conflict of Greeks against the Greeks in the Peloponnesian War, but his narrative broke off in 411 B.C., seven years before the end, and Greeks were to continue fighting one another for many more years. Xenophon continues the account to 362 B.C. These...
| Author | Xenophon |
| ISBN | 0140440070 |
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When the Greeks were then betrayed...
| Author | Arrian |
| ISBN | 0140442537 |
'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian’s own experience as a military commander gave him unique...
| Author | Gaius Julius Caesar |
| ISBN | 0140441875 |
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman...
The epic true story of Themistocles and the Battle of Salamis, and a rousing history of the world's first dominant navy and the towering empire it built.
The Athenian Navy was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world. It engineered a civilization, empowered the world's first...
| Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
| ISBN | 0812969707 |
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....
| 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 | 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 | Paul Anthony Cartledge |
| ISBN | 1400079195 |
Paul Cartledge, one of the world’s foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order.
Alexander's legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians,...
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0304352845 |
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...
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
| Author | Anthony Everitt |
| ISBN | 1400061288 |
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow....
