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  • The Complete Warrior's Mindset Collection (Vol. 5)

    History of the Peloponnesian War & The Commentaries of Julius Caesar - Command Lessons from the Classical World

    by Thucydides, Julius Caesar ...
    Translated by Tim Zengerink ...
    Series Book 426 - The Library of Alexandria
    What if ancient war journals could unlock today's leadership secrets?The Complete Warrior's Mindset Collection (Vol. 5) delivers a powerful dual perspective from two of antiquity's most celebrated strategists: Thucydides and Julius Caesar. This modern translation compiles the most pivotal episodes from History of the Peloponnesian War (abridged) and The Commentaries of Julius Caesar, spotlighting ... Read more

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  • The History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Thucydides ...
    Translated by Richard Crawley ...
    War. Ambition. Betrayal. A timeless study of power and its price.Step into the world of ancient Greece at its most turbulent. Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War chronicles the epic struggle between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BC-a war that reshaped the Greek world, ruined a great city, and left lessons still painfully relevant today.Unlike earlier historians, Thucydides was there. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    The author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation continues his revealing history of the Ancient Greek city-state in this chronicle of its decline and defeat.Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans became masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? In Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation, Philip ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Thucydides ...
    Translated by Rex Warner ...
    'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Landmark Thucydides

    A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

    Edited by Robert B. Strassler ...
    Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta “a possession for all time,” and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • Imperial General

    The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    The biography of a 1st century Imperial Roman officer whose colorful life and remarkable career spans many of the era's major events.Few Imperial Romans below the level of emperor left a historic imprint as complete or as fascinating as that of Petilius Cerealis. From Boudicca's rebellion in Britannia to the infamous "year of the four emperors" in Rome, Cerealis had a knack for getting caught up ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fall of the Roman Republic

    by Plutarch, Robin Seager ...
    Translated by Rex Warner ...
    Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 bc. Whether ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sparta At War

    Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 550–362 BC

    by Scott M. Rusch ...
    The story of this military powerhouse of ancient Greece, and its nearly two centuries of battlefield triumphs.During the eighth century BC, Sparta became one of the leading cities of ancient Greece, conquering the southern Peloponnese, and from the mid-sixth century BC until the mid-fourth, Sparta became a military power of recognized importance. For almost two centuries the massed Spartan army ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Roman Empire

    by Polybius ...
    Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert ...
    The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Carthage's Other Wars

    Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    "A very good read . . . and a reminder that the Romans were hardly the only imperialist warmongers of the ancient world." — StrategyPageCarthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and checkered even before her "Punic Wars" against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a ... Read more

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  • 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

    $10.99 USD

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