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  • The Athenian Army 507–322 BC

    by Nicholas Sekunda ...
    Series Book 259 - Elite
    This fully illustrated study explores the formidable Athenian army, rivalled only by the Spartan army in terms of battlefield prowess and influence.In 508 BC, the reforms of Kleisthenes established the ten tribes of Athens, inaugurating a system of military organization that remained in place for nearly 200 years until Athens' eclipse by the growing power of Macedon in the early 3rd century BC. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Macedonian Armies after Alexander 323–168 BC

    by Nicholas Sekunda ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC threw the Macedonians into confusion; there was no capable heir, and no clear successor among the senior figures in Alexander's circle.For well over a century the largely mercenary armies of Alexander's successors imposed their influence over the whole of the Near East, while absorbing local military practices. After Rome's decisive defeat of Carthage in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus

    3rd Century BC

    by Nicholas Sekunda ...
    Series Book 528 - Men-at-Arms
    Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire.After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion, in particular against the region's rising power: Rome. Gathering both Greek and Italian allies into a very large army (which included war-elephants ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Campaigns of Alexander

    by Arrian ...
    Translated by Aubrey De Selincourt ...
    Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most reliable we have. Arrian's own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the world's greatest conqueror.He tells of Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his defeat of Persia and campaigns through Egypt and Babylon - ... Read more

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  • A War Like No Other

    How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

    by Victor Davis 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Age of Gladiators

    by Rupert Matthews ...
    The great spectacles of ancient Rome have become proverbial for their cruelty, bloodlust and glory. In the arena, the games were savage and brutal. Gladiators fought each other to the death, wild animals were put to fight each other and criminals were executed by barbaric means. Military victories were marked by the Triumphs when generals paraded through the city, the defeated were sacrificed to ... Read more

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  • Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths.The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image suggests. In truth, ancient ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legions of Rome

    The definitive history of every Roman legion

    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
    No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous sources: stone and bronze inscriptions, coins, papyrus and literary accounts in a remarkable feat ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Parthenon

    by R. Taylor Austen ...
    Democracy's symbolic birthplace, the famed Acropolis, stands today as a reminder of the glory that was ancient Greece. Atop this ancient citadel - once the center of Athenian civil pride and religion - stands the most famous structure in the Western world, the Parthenon. Here, historian R. Taylor Austen tells the stirring story of the Parthenon but also traces the history of Athens itself - its ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Name of Rome

    The Men Who Won the Roman Empire

    by Adrian Goldsworthy ...
    The complete and definitive history of how Roman generals carved out the greatest and longest-lasting empire the world has ever seen.The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an empire which eventually included the greater part of the known world. This was thanks largely to the generals who led the Roman army to victory ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Rise of Athens

    The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization

    by Anthony Everitt ...
    A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and HadrianFilled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Peloponnesian War

    by Thucydides, P. J. Rhodes ...
    Translated by Martin Hammond ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c.460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides himself was a participant ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD