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by Roger Kean
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Few books before have explored the exploits, achievements, and notorious antics of ancient Rome's imperial dynasties in such readable detail. This title sets out to describe the lives of every man (and a few women) who aspired to the purple, from Augustus in 27 BC to Justinian I, who died in...
A War Like No Other
How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
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...
The Ghosts of Cannae
Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
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For 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,...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This Modern Library eBook edition collects all three volumes of Edward Gibbon’s towering masterpiece of classical history The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—complete and unabridged.
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Edward Gibbon’s magnum opus narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D....
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in World War Two
Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of...
Vanished Kingdoms
The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
An evocative account of fourteen European kingdoms-their rise, maturity, and eventual disappearance.
There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Europe's past is littered with states and kingdoms, large and small, that are scarcely remembered today, and while their names...
The Father of Us All
War and History, Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes,...
by J.B. Bury, Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
*Includes Table of ContentsBurys The Rise of the Saracens and the Foundation of the Western Empire is an expansive history of the Dark Ages. Curated by the famous historian J.B. Bury, The Rise of the Saracens and the Foundation of the Western Empire chronicles the history of the former Western Roman...
by Tacitus
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
The following pages contain translations of the first two of these works. The "Germany," the full title of which is "Concerning the situation, manners and inhabitants of Germany," contains little of value from a historical standpoint. It describes with vividness the fierce and...
From The Heart
Voices of the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Lee Miller retrieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternate history of the continent, while introducing us to the grandeur and diversity of the 500 nations who held this land before the first European set foot on it. Here, collected in one volume, is the...
by Michael Kerrigan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Five of the first eleven emperors of Rome were assassinated and another two killed themselves rather than face the fury of their subjects. Nero sang while Rome burned. Caligula proclaimed himself a god. If not mad enough already, he also gave one of his horses a place on the senate. Rome rejoiced when...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still...
After Tamerlane
The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2010
Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this magisterial book, their empire-building created the world we know today.
From the death of Tamerlane...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IV
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric's invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before Alaric heard the voice that drew him steadily towards Rome. The frontier war along the limes was...