Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “brian mcging”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Histories

    by Polybius, Brian McGing ...
    Translated by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward to her destruction of that renowned city in 146. Polybius, himself a leading Greek politician of the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Histories

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Translated by Carolyn Dewald ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Ghosts of Cannae

    Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

    by Robert L. O'Connell ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. No general since has matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and brutal military victory. Now Robert L. O’Connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving us a stirring account of this apocalyptic battle, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hannibal

    by Ernle Bradford ...
    The life of the great military commander of ancient Carthage from the bestselling author of Thermopylae and Gibraltar.Born in Carthage in 247 BC, Hannibal Barca is considered one of the greatest military commanders of all time. Following the example set by his father, Hamilcar, he dedicated his life to the defeat of Rome. At the outbreak of the Second Punic War, Hannibal famously led an army ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Story of the Goths

    by Henry Bradley ...
    More than three hundred years before the birth of Christ, a traveller from the Greek colony of Marseilles, named Pytheas, made known to the civilized world the existence of a people called Guttones, who lived near the Frische Haff, in the country since known as East Prussia, and traded in the amber that was gathered on the Baltic shores. For four whole centuries these amber merchants of the Baltic ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paul the Traveller

    Saint Paul and his World

    by Ernle Bradford ...
    The life of the first-century man born Saul of Tarsus, who went on to become Paul the Apostle, by the acclaimed historian and author of Thermopylae.Paul, born into Asia Minor's Jewish aristocracy and a passionate student of scripture, was part of the crowd that killed Stephen, a deacon regarded as the first Christian martyr. But on the road to Damascus, Paul experienced a miracle that would change ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gallic War

    Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius

    by Julius Caesar ...
    Translated by Carolyn Hammond ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns Caesar fought against the Gauls, Germans and Britons, it also serves a deeper political purpose, revealing him as a commander of breathtaking flair, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Revenge of the Ninth

    Heading to honor and Glory though effort and trial

    by Armando Roggero ...
    THE FIRST MSB (music soundtrack book) WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC SOUNDTRACK, ABOUT THE ASTONISHING NINTH LEGION. The book narrates the beginning of Hadrianus Domitius Martius’s military career. As a mere boy, and a citizen of the Roman Empire, he enlisted in the Roman army like many others in the year 811 Ab Urbe Condita and became a legionnaire ready to fight to death for the honour and strength of Rome ... Read more

    $8.00 USD

  • Mark Antony's Heroes

    How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor

    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
    This fourth book in Dando-Collins’s definitive history of Rome’s legions tells the story of Rome’s 3rd Gallica Legion, which put Vespasian on the throne and saved the life of the Christian apostle Paul. Named for their leader, Mark Antony, these common Roman soldiers, through their gallantry on the battlefield, reshaped the Roman Empire and aided the spread of Christianity throughout Europe. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (1)

    31 BC–AD 195

    by Dr Raffaele D’Amato ...
    Series Book 506 - Men-at-Arms
    At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity.In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion, but continuing research indicates significant variations in Roman armour and equipment not only between different legions and the provincially-raised auxiliary cohorts that made ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180

    by Martin Goodman ...
    Series series The Routledge History of the Ancient World
    The Roman World 44 BC – AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city of Rome itself and in the rest of the empire, arguing that, despite long periods of apparent peace, this was a society controlled as much by fear ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Alesia 52 BC

    The final struggle for Gaul

    by Nic Fields ...
    Series Book 269 - Campaign
    52 BC is the key year of the Gallic Revolt, with the near-disastrous Roman defeat at Gergovia followed by the climactic victory over the Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix at Alesia.In 52, BC Caesar's continued strategy of annihilation had engendered a spirit of desperation, which detonated into a revolt of Gallic tribes under the leadership of the charismatic young Arvernian noble Vercingetorix. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD