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History: Prehistoric & Ancient Era

The Art of War
by Sun Tzu

Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are...

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
by Ian Shaw

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 7,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 7,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Egyptians' prehistoric origins to their conquest by the...

Alexander the Great
by Paul Cartledge

The remarkable life of Alexander the Great, one of the greatest military geniuses of all time, vividly told by one of the world's leading experts in Greek history. With all the intensity, insight,...

The Spartans
by Paul Cartledge

The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world's...

Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
by Paul Cartledge

In 480 B.C., the mighty Persian king Xerxes led a massive force to the narrow mountain pass called Thermopylae, anticipating no significant resistance in his bid to conquer Greece. But the Greeks,...

The Greeks
by H.D.F. Kitto

Most ancient cultures disappeared with scarcely a trace, their effect upon our modern way of life of little consequence. The Greeks, however, continue to influence contemporary man through their...

The Oxford History of the Biblical World
by Michael D. Coogan

Here, in one impressively illustrated volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most...

The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece...
by Barry Strauss

On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered...

Engineering in the Ancient World
by J. G. Landels

In his classic book, J. G. Landels describes the technological advances of the Greeks and Romans with erudition and enthusiasm. He provides an important introduction to engineering, writing about...

Engineering and Technology in Ancient Greece
by Christos Lazos

The ancient Greeks had made a remarkable advancement, in the field of Engineering and Technology. Their achievements, from 3000 BC until 1100 AD, leave us speechless and confirm that the modern...

The Generalship of Alexander the Great
by J.F.C. Fuller

In his brief and meteoric life (356-323 B.C.), the greatest of all conquerors redirected the course of world history. Here, General J. F. C. Fuller, one of the premier military historians of the...

The Histories, Revised
by Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus is considered one of the seminal works of history in Western literature. Written from the 450s to the 420s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves...

Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
by A. Leo Oppenheim, Erica Reiner

Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in...

The Genius of Alexander the Great
by N. G. L. Hammond

By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia Minor and into the Indus valley. Even before his...

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome
by Chris Scarre

More than fifteen centuries after its fall, the Roman Empire remains one of the most formative influences on the history of Europe. Its physical remains dot the landscape from Scotland to Syria. Its...

The Peloponnesian War
by Donald Kagan

For three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the...

The Macedonian State: Origins, Institutions, and History
by N. G. L. Hammond

In 338 B.C. Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece. He was succeeded in 336 B.C. by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests during the next twelve years reached as far as...

Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
by Donald W. Engels

Donald W. Engels book is chock full of logistical details that any serious student of Alexander The Great would need, to undertake an in-depth study of the logistical needs of this great general....

The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
by Samuel Noah Kramer

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history...

The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more...

History: Early Christianity & Middle Ages

John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057
by John Skylitzes

John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the...

The Byzantine World
by Paul Stephenson

The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of...

Monemvasia: Byzantine City State
by Haris A. Kalligas

This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese – Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
by Jonathan Riley-Smith

In The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, the story of the Crusades is told as never before in an engrossing, authoritative, and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the...

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
by Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon, Robin Cormack

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies deals with...

The Byzantine Empire
by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman

The Byzantine Empire centered at the city of Constantinople grew from a small Greek colonial village into the capital of the Eastern Roman empire. Ultimately, Byzantium represented what remained of...

The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire
by Jonathan Shepard

Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster:...

The Trial of the Templars
by Malcolm Barber

The Templars fought against Islam in the crusader east for nearly two centuries. During that time the original small band grew into a formidable army, backed by an extensive network of preceptories...

Holy Blood, Holy Grail Illustrated Edition: The Secret Histo...
by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

The authors spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon

Gripping, powerfully intelligent, and wonderfully entertaining, Gibbon's classic account of Rome ranks as one of the literary masterpieces of its age. Attacked for its enlightened views on politics,...

The Knights Templar Chronology: Tracking History's Most Intr...
by George Smart

If you liked The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail, you"ll love digging deeper with The Knights Templar Chronology, a fascinating timeline telling the year by year story of one of history's...

The Knights Templar: The History and Myths of the Legendary ...
by Sean Martin

This book is an essential exploration into the history of a legendary group of Crusaders, which are prominently featured in Dan Brown's recent best seller, The Da Vinci Code. The Knights Templar rose...

Historical Atlas of the Crusades
by Angus Konstam

In November 1095, Pope Urban II called on the Christian rulers and knights of Europe to drive the Muslims from the Holy Land and claim Jerusalem back for Christendom. Any Crusader who died in the...

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe
by George Holmes

Covering a thousand years of history, this richly illustrated volume tells the story of the creation of Western civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean. Written by noted scholars and based on...

The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, t...
by Piers Paul Read

In 1099, the city of Jerusalem, a possession of the Islamic Caliphate for over four-hundred years, fell to an army of European knights intent on restoring the Cross to the Holy Lands. From the ranks...

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psel...
by Michael Psellus

This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.

History of the Byzantine Empire
by Alexander A. Vasiliev

This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a...

History: Age of Discovery & Renaissance

Le Siècle de Louis XIV
by Voltaire

Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV (1751) was the first major overall account of the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715). It is the starting-point for any reflection on the political and cultural history of...

To Rule the Waves
by Arthur Herman

The extraordinary story of how Britain's Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to power unprecedented in history. From its beginnings under Henry VIII and adventurers like John Hawkins and Francis...

The Man Behind the Iron Mask
by John Noone

"For more than three hundred years the legend of 'the man in the iron mask' has held a place on the stage of human enquiry and debate. From the time of his incarceration during the reign of Louis XIV...

History: Industrial Revolution & Modern Era

Spheres of Influence: The Great Powers Partition in Europe, ...
by Lloyd C. Gardner

The war within the war was the struggle among Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin for the shape of the world that would follow World War II. That delicate diplomacy is spelled out in Lloyd Gardner's...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare
by Geoffrey Parker

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare provides a unique account of Western warfare from antiquity to the present day. The book treats the history of all aspects of the subject: the development...

The Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan

The definitive, Nobel Prize–winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. "After the end of the World War...

Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
by Percy Greaves Jr, Bettina B. Greaves, John Chamberlain

A president faced an economic depression that wouldn't go away, and a deeply disgruntled electorate. Not for the first or last time, the option of entering a war seemed politically appealing. How...

The Mons Myth: A Reassessment of the Battle
by Terence Zuber

Conventional histories of the battles of Mons and Le Cateau describe how, although the British were massively outnumbered, precise and rapid British rifle fire mowed down rows of German troops. The...

Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
by Mark Mazower

Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of the continent ever attempted in Europe's history. Liberalism and democracy were swept aside, as Germany aimed to...

Inside the Third Reich
by Albert Speer

From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen...

Infantry Attacks
by Erwin Rommel

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in World War II. Even when the legend surrounding his...

A Century of War
by John V. Denson

John Denson, in a book that covers the history of America's large wars from 1860 through the Cold War, describes the 20th century — not coincidentally a century of statism — as the bloodiest in...

Armageddon
by Max Hastings

In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge,...

Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant G...
by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein

Originally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic memoir of WWII by a man who was an acknowledged military genius and probably Germany's top WWII...

The Hitler/Hess Deception: British Intelligence's Best-Kept ...
by Martin Allen

On the night of May 10, 1941, a Messerschmitt-110 crash-landed on a remote Scottish hillside. Its pilot was Rudolf Hess, the Deputy-Führer of the German Reich. Hess' remarkable solo flight was...

Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and...
by Norman Polmar, K. J. Moore

Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy...

On the Battlefields of the Cold War: A Soviet Ambassador's C...
by Victor Israelyan

'Memoirs are worthless if their authors attempt to present themselves as angels. I resolutely oppose those of my countrymen who shift responsibility for Soviet evils exclusively to the leaders. It is...

The fall of Berlin 1945
by Antony Beevor

This article is not available in the English language edition of e-telescope.gr The Red Army's invasion of Berlin in January 1945 was one of the most terrifying examples of fire and sword in history....

Crazy Ivan: A True Story of Submarine Espionage
by W. Craig Reed, William Reed

No other U.S. Navy Diver, photographer or spy has taken pictures of any Soviet submarine from as close proximity as did W. Craig Reed of the Soviet Victor III that almost ended his life. CRAZY IVAN...

Double Standards: The Rudolf Hess Cover-Up
by Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Stephen Prior

For over 60 years, there has been an unprecedented cover-up by both the British Establishment and successive generations of historians about the flight of Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess to Scotland in...

Panzer Leader
by Heinz Guderian

General Heinz Guderian's revolutionary strategic vision and his skill in armored combat brough Germany its initial victories during World War II. Combining Guderian's land offensive with Luftwaffe...

Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the ...
by Walter Lord

A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember. Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt...

Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-4...
by Mark Mazower

This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of...

A War To Be Won : Fighting the Second World War
by Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett

In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized...

Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
by Mark Mazower

As the European Union introduces a common currency to world financial markets, Mark Mazower's Dark Continent critically examines the notion of "Europe." The Euro notwithstanding, Mazower argues that...

Campfire and Battlefield
by Rossiter Johnson, John Tyler Morgan

An original 1894 manuscript is brought back to life in Trident's reproduction of this Civil War treasure. Page after page of maps, photos, and illustrations, along with vivid text, will make Campfire...

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
by Antony Beevor

Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War: The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision...

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Es...
by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew

Little is known--and less has been published--about American submarine espionage during the Cold War. These submerged sentinels silently monitored the Soviet Union's harbors, shadowed its subs,...

The Way It Was - Pearl Harbor: The Original Photographs
by J. Michael Wenger, Katherine V. Dillon, Donald M. Goldstein

At long last, the familiar and overused photographs of the "Day of Infamy" can be retired. The 430 prints in this new and welcome collection were gathered from various Japanese and U.S. sources, and...

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick

In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with...

Crete: The Battle And The Resistance
by Antony Beevor

A riveting account of the fall of Greece, the Battle of Crete, and the Cretan Resistance, from the beginning of World War II to its end. Few battles in World War II can surpass Crete for high drama,...

On War
by Carl von Clausewitz

On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read...

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
by Gordon W. Prange

Probably the definite work on the Pearl Harbor. Provides an account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. Prange spent nearly 37 years preparing this book by a series of interviews with...

German Generals Talk
by Basil H. Liddell Hart

The German Generals who survived Hitler's Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British miltary strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and...