The Punic Wars

10 best books like The Punic Wars (Adrian Goldsworthy): The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, The Peloponnesian War, The History of Ancient Rome, 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, The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

Author	Dan Carlin
ISBN	0008340927

From the creator of the wildly popular podcast comes Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: History at the Extremes.

Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about history. His award-winning podcast is revered for its unique blend of high drama, enthralling narration, and Twilight Zone-style...

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

Author

Anthony Everitt

“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams

He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted...

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

Author	Sabine Hossenfelder
ISBN	0465094252

A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.

Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular...

The Peloponnesian War

Author	Donald Kagan
ISBN	0142004375

For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world’s most respected classical, political, and military historians,...

The History of Ancient Rome

Author

Garrett G. Fagan

Course Lecture Titles 1. Introduction 2. The Sources 3. Pre-Roman Italy and the Etruscans 4. The Foundation of Rome 5. The Kings of Rome 6. Regal Society 7. The Beginnings of the Republic 8. The Struggle of the Orders 9. Roman Expansion in Italy 10. The Roman Confederation in Italy 11. The International...

Alexander the Great

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...

The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

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...

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

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...

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

Author

Jackson Crawford

So... yeah. I'm not sure why I had to be a fully-grown adult before it ever occurred to me that I could read this, but I probably would have gotten a bit bored at a younger age.

Takeaways:
1. Tolkein was a huge Norse Fanboy. I mean, so was C. S. Lewis to an extent (I'm looking at you, Fenris Ulf, captain...

The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

Author	Thomas Asbridge
ISBN	0060787287

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this  big, ambitious,...