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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords against the Turks and then recover the holy city of Jerusalem... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander (Landmark) by James Romm Publisher Comments Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brilliant leader’s great conquests, is the latest addition to the acclaimed Landmark series. After twelve years of hard-fought campaigns... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy by John Roberts Hale Publisher Comments A stirring history of the world's first dominant navy and the towering empire it built The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Day of the Barbarians by Alessandro Barbero Publisher Comments On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace (now western Turkey), the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unforeseen flood of refugees from the East Germanic tribe known as the Goths had arrived at the Empire's... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $11.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Lords of Battle: The World of the Celtic Warrior (World of the Warrior) by Stephen Allen Publisher Comments To the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Celtic warrior of the late Iron Age was the archetypal barbarian: savage, undisciplined, and bloodthirsty. In a clash of cultures that lasted almost 500 years, the rich and vibrant society in which... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Knight: The Medieval Warrior's (Unofficial) Manual by Michael Prestwich Publisher Comments The knight is the supreme warrior of the Middle Ages. Fully armored and mounted on a magnificent charger, he seems invincible. Honor and glory await him as, guided by the chivalric code, he fights with lance and sword. This carefully researched yet... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Rome & the Sword: How Warriors & Weapons Shaped Roman History by Simon James Publisher Comments The story of Rome and its military seems a familiar one, told often through books and movies and games, yet it is a modern myth obscuring a different reality. As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, Rome's military was no war machine made up of... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Generalship of Alexander the Great (Da Capo Paperback) by J F C Fuller Publisher Comments A brief and meteoric life (356–323 B.C.) Alexander was the greatest of all conquerors in the course of world history. He had a small army—seldom exceeding 40,000 men—but a constellation of bold, revolutionary ideas about the conduct of... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto by Niccolo Capponi Publisher Comments On the morning of October 7, 1571, in the Gulf of Lepanto on the Ionian Sea, the vast and heavily-manned fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League clashed in one of the most significant battles in history. By four oclock that afternoon the sea was... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization) by Robin Waterfield Publisher Comments Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Scipio Africanus (94 Edition) by B. H. Liddell-hart Publisher Comments Scipio Africanus (236183 b.c.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander, he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in public memory.As B.H. Liddell Hart writes,"Scipio's battles are... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Publisher Comments One of the world's foremost historians presents a fresh look at the greatest war of ancient Greece and a pivotal moment in Western civilization that still resonates today. For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century B.C., Athens and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Soldiers of the Dragon: Chinese Armies 1500 BC-Ad 1840 by C J Peers Publisher Comments The turbulent history of China has seen many dynastic struggles over the centuries, ever since the semi-nomadic tribes of ancient China were unified under the first emperor, Cheng. From the Great Wall to the terracotta army at Xian, monuments to China's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Warfare in the classical world :war and the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome by John Warry Synopsis The author traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman empires between 2600BC and AD 800. In the CLASSIC CONFLICTS series.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World by Philip Sabin Publisher Comments From the author's introduction: Ancient battles seize the modern imagination. Far from being forgotten, they have become a significant aspect of popular culture, prompting a continuing stream of books, feature films, television programs and board and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience by Michael Prestwich Publisher Comments Medieval warfare was hard, gruelling and often unrewarding. While military life in this era is sometimes pictured in terms of knights resplendent in armour and bearing colourful standards and coats of arms, the reality more often consisted of men... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Battle of Marathon (Yale Library of Military History) by Peter Krentz Publisher Comments How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thermopylae: The Battle for the West by Ernle Bradford Publisher Comments An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates) — a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Knightly Dueling Knightly Dueling: The Fighting Arts of German Chivalry the Fighting Arts of German Chivalry by Jeffrey Hull Publisher Comments Knightly Dueling is a complete overview of the fighting arts of German chivalric dueling, on horse and on foot, during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Through the words and pictures of original source texts of the great German fight masters... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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