Alexander
334-323 BC : Conquest of the Persian Empire (Campaign Series 7)
by John Warry.
Paperback
Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C. : A Historical Biography
by Peter Green
Listed under Alexander the Great
Ancient
Greece : The Famous Monuments Past and Present
by G. Behor
(Paperback)
The
Ancient Greeks : Armies of Classical Greece 5th and 4th Centuries BC (Elite
Series, No 7)
by Nick Sekunda, Angus McBride (Photographer)
Paperback - 64 pages (December )
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 085045686X
Battles
of the Greek and Roman Worlds : A Chronological Compendium of 667 Battles
to 31 BC, from the Historians of the Ancient World
by John Drogo Montagu
(Hardcover)
The
Battle of Zama (Battles of the Ancient World)
by Don Nardo
(Hardcover)
Barrington
Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
by Richard J. A. Talbert (Editor), Roger S. Bagnall
(Hardcover)
The
Civil Wars (Penguin Classics)
by Appianus, et al
(Paperback)
Leonidas:
Hero of Thermopylae (Leaders of Ancient Greece)
by Ian Macgregor Morris
(Library Binding)
DK
Readers: Trojan Horse (Level 4: Proficient Readers)
by David Clement-Davies
(Hardcover)
The
Greek and Persian Wars 500-323 BC (Men at Arms Series, No. 69)
by Jack Cassin-Scott
(Paperback - December 1977)
The
Greco-Persian Wars
by Peter Green
Popular classicist Peter Green (author of Alexander of Macedon, 356-323
B.C.) offers an engrossing narrative of the wars between the Greeks and
the Persians. This is real David-and-Goliath material, with the scrappy,
feuding city-states of ancient Greece fending off a much larger aggressor.
The conflicts themselves are a kind of struggle for the soul of Western
civilization: "On the one side, the towering, autocratic figure of the
Great King; on the other, the voluntary and imperfect discipline of proudly
independent citizens." The Greeks surprisingly fare better in these encounters,
and make themselves legends on the plains of Marathon (192 Greek casualties
versus 6,400 Persians), during the heroic last stand at Thermopylae, and
elsewhere.
The Greco-Persian Wars is full of wonderful stories featuring bravery,
cowardice, and treachery. Unlike so many of his fellow historians, Green
understands the importance of a dramatic narrative, sometimes employing
novelistic techniques to relate what happened. It's not an overstatement
to say that the course of Western history might have taken a strikingly
unfamiliar turn if these battles had had different outcomes. Green is a
natural storyteller, and The Greco-Persian Wars is a delight to read, even
for readers who have no background or special interest in the classical
world. --John J. Miller - Amazon.com
Paperback: 372 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x
9.19 x 6.19
Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition
ISBN: 0520203135
Greek
and Roman Naval Warfare; A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design
from Salamis (480 B.C. to Actium)
by William Ledyard Rodgers
Hardcover from Naval Institute Press
1964
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Greek
Hoplite 480-323 BC (Warrior Series, 27)
by Nicholas Victor Sekunda
Paperback - 64 pages (December )
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 1855328674
A
History of Sparta, 950-192 B.C.
by William George Grieve Forrest
The
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Paperback from Penguin Classics
On
Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of
the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Hardcover from Hackett Pub Co
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The
Peloponnesian War
by Donald Kagan
Paperback from Penguin (Non-Classics)
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A
War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian
War
by Victor Hanson
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson
has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars
ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes
an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his
most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other.
Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens
and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens
and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of
the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid
and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a
complete chronological account that reflects the political background of
the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle
in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo
in the present.
Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land
and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full
scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted
assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles
played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes,
and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato.
Hanson’s perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many
thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia,
two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed
in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and
the current Middle East? Or was it more like America’s own Civil War, a
brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century’s
“red state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural
war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings
the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past
informs the present.
Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is
like no other history of this important war.
Paperback from Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Archaic
Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War (Translated Documents of Greece
and Rome)
Paperback from Cambridge University Press
The
Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
by Robert Morkot
(Paperback)
Gates
of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
by Steven Pressfield
(Hardcover)
The
Greek War of Independence : The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression
and the Birth of the Modern Greek Nation
by David Brewer
(Hardcover)
The
Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
by Herodotus, et al
(Paperback)
The
Iliad of Homer
by Homer, Richmond Lattimore
from University of Chicago Press (Trd)
The
Oxford History of the Classical World
by Oswyn Murray (Editor), et al
(Hardcover - July 1986)
Scipio
Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon
by B. H. Liddell Hart, Michael Grant
Paperback: 281 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x
8.46 x 5.37
DaCapo Press; ISBN: 0306805839;
Trojan
Horse: How the Greeks Won the War (Step into Reading, Step 4, paper)
by Emily Little, Michael Eagle (Illustrator)
(Paperback - November 1988)
The
Wars of the Ancient Greeks and Their Invention of Western Military Culture
(The History of Warfare)
by Victor Davis Hanson, John Keegan (Editor)
(Hardcover)
Warfare in the Classical World : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons,
Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome
by John Gibson Warry
Listed under Ancient Weaponry
Xenophon's
March: Into the Lair of the Persian Lion
by John Prevas
Hardcover: 288 pages
Da Capo Press; ISBN: 0306811170; (January 8, )
Athens under the Spartans
by Philip Maynard Williams
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The Ancient Spartans
by J.T. Hooker
(Hardcover - October 1980)
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The Battle of Marathon (Battles of the Ancient World)
by Don Nardo (Library Binding)
ASIN/1560064129
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Black Ships Before Troy : The Story of the Iliad
by Rosemary Sutcliff, et al
(Hardcover - November 1993)
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The Origins of the Greek Civil War (Origins of Modern Wars)
by David Close
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Herodotus : The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Books (Greek History)
by Herodotus, Reginald Walter MacAn (Editor)
(Hardcover - June 1972)
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