History / Ancient

A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors

by Anthony Blond

With the recent success of 'Rome' on BBC2, no one will look at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Caesars is a must-read for...

The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC

by J. G. Manning

The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history...

The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

by Anthony Everitt

From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater...

Libya: An ancient country looks toward the future

by Giorgio Galanti

A captivating book dedicated to Libya of yesterday and today: a country with a thousand faces that is experiencing a dramatic moment. Through a wonderful selection of photographs accompanied by comprehensive...

The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind

by Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock

In this riveting account of historical and archaeological investigation, the authors present hard evidence that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the other monuments at Giza are of far more ancient origin than previously...

The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier

by Alistair Moffat

In The Wall, Alistair Moffat's fascination shines through as he captures the enormous endeavour of the builders along with the captivating human stories the stones still tell after nearly two millennia.' The...

The Roman Army from Hadrian to Constantine

by Michael Simkins & Ronald Embleton

The year of 122 was the first time a Roman Emperor had set foot in the Province of Britannia since the invasion in AD 43. No doubt he had read many reports concerning the damage caused by marauding tribesmen...

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret Macmillan & Richard Holbrooke

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize

Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize

Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world...

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World

by David Keys

It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East...

Egyptian Mummies, A Very Peculiar History

by Jim Pipe

You can't take it with you - or can you? Discover the grisly process of mummification, from embalming and stuffing the corpse to preparing a home for eternity. This title explores the quirky side of a journey...

One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love

by David M M Halperin

Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity,...

Britannia - The Failed State: Tribal Conflict and the End of Roman Britain

by Stuart Laycock

Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman and early medieval periods. This groundbreaking new study traces...

Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy

by Richard A. Gabriel

The life of Rome's fiercest would-be conquerer

A Brief History of Roman Britain

by J.P. P. Alcock

In BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the...

Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists

by Tony Perrottet

The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements—Roman numerals, straight roads—but one of their lesser-known contributions was the creation of the tourist industry. The first people...

Marathon: The Battle That Changed Western Civilization

by Richard A. Billows

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Bronze Age Warfare

by Richard Osgood & Sarah Monks

The Bronze Age, so named because of the technological advances in metalworking and countless innovations in the manufacture and design of tools and weapons, is among the most fascinating periods in human history....

Alexander the Great

by E E E Rice

King Alexander III 'the Great' of Macedon was one of the greatest military commanders the world has ever known. This book seeks to dispel some of the myths which have grown up around him and to provide an up-to-date...

To Rule Britannia: The Claudian Invasion of Britain, AD 43

by John Waite

In AD 43 the Romans landed an invasion force on the shores of Britain, heralding the beginning of recorded British history and laying the cultural foundations of today's national identity. Yet despite the crucial...

The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason

by Charles Freeman

A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine’s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization.

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