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By: Dr Murray Dahm

ISBN: 9781472858061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kate Gilliver

ISBN: 9781472862013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A detailed, fully illustrated overview of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, one of the most important conflicts of the ancient world.


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By: Raffaele DAmato

ISBN: 9781472862686
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A fully illustrated account of the large-scale reformation of the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 476.


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By: Nicholas Sekunda

ISBN: 9781472833488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Fully illustrated story of the army of the Greek king who fought both Rome and Carthage in the 280s--270s BC, and gave the world the phrase a Pyrrhic victory for a success so costly that it counts as a defeat.


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By: John Warry

ISBN: 9781855321106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The "Campaign" titles provide concise accounts of the great conflicts of history, assessing each commander's strategy, and recounting the progress of the fighting using 3-D battle maps to illustrate the critical stages. This covers Alexander's 11 year campaign to destroy the Persian Empire.


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By: Ralph Sawyer

ISBN: 9780465021451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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One of the leading scholars of Chinese military history offers a definitive guide to the ways in which military strategy and technology shaped the face of ancient Chinese civilization.


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By: Nic Fields

ISBN: 9781472808875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Presents one of the most powerful men in late antiquity, Attila's peerless Hunnic empire stretched from the Ural mountains to the Rhine river. This book examines how Attila was able to sweep across Europe, the tactics and innovations he employed and the major battles he faced.


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By: Nic Fields

ISBN: 9781849083133
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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When the Romans occupied the southern half of Britain in AD 43, the Iceni tribe quickly allied themselves with the invaders. This book tells how Boudicca widow of Prasutagus, the king of the Iceni, raised her people and other tribes in revolt and nearly took control of the fledgling Roman province.


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By: Nic Fields

ISBN: 9781846039584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By the outbreak of the First Carthaginian War, Carthage controlled the whole coast of northern Africa. This book explores the heterogeneous mixture of races within the Carthaginian forces, and discusses their clothing, equipment and weaponry. It details their tactical deployment and covers the campaign experiences of the great general Hannibal.


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By: Chris McNab

ISBN: 9781472825742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Employing primary sources and the latest research, this fully illustrated study vividly examines the pitched battles between the Greeks and their Persian opponents during the Greco-Persian Wars.


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By: Alberto Maria Pollastrini

ISBN: 9781350323483
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Alberto Maria Pollastrini

ISBN: 9781350323490
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Raffaele DAmato

ISBN: 9781472810892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Featuring archaeological photography and lavish artistic reconstructions, this book reveals the design and development history of Rome's naval force at the height of its Imperial power. Examining its warships, it reveals the navy's structure and the tactics that were developed to make the most of Rome's naval design superiority.


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By: Nic Fields

ISBN: 9781846039287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One of the greatest military commanders in history, Julius Caesar's most famous victory - the conquest of Gaul - was to him little more than a stepping stone to power. An audacious and decisive general, his victories over the Gauls allowed him to challenge for the political leadership of Rome. This book covers the general's great victories.


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By: Rose Mary Sheldon

ISBN: 9781538114889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Exploring the history of internal security of the first Roman dynasty, this book answers the enduring question: If there were nine thousand men guarding the emperor, why did Rome have the highest rate of assassination of any empire Sheldon concludes that the repeated problem of killing Caesar reflected the empires larger dynamics and turmoil.


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By: Nicholas Sekunda

ISBN: 9781849087148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Duncan B Campbell

ISBN: 9781846039263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain in an attempt to pacify the Caledonian tribesman. For seven years, the Romans marched and battled across what is now Scotland. Finally, in AD 83, they fought the final battle at Mons Graupius where 10,000 Caledonians were slaughtered from only 360 Roman dead.


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By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781846030024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In 48 BC, the stage was set for the final clash of the two titans of the Roman world and the odds were heavily in Pompey's favour, with 45,000 men against Caesar's 22,000. This work charts the events surrounding the Pharsalus campaign, and the seismic implications of the decisive clash between the two greatest generals of their age.


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By: William Shepherd

ISBN: 9781849085540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Plataea 479 BC: Greece's Greatest Victory".


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By: Irene Polinskaya

ISBN: 9780567697783
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Nic Fields

ISBN: 9781846033827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By 390 BC, the Roman army was in need of change, as Greek-style tactics of fighting with a heavy infantry phalanx were proving increasingly outdated. Yet by the end of the 3rd century BC, Rome's prestige was shattered by the genius of Hannibal of Carthage. This book reveals these two defining moments in Roman military history.


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By: Nic Fields

ISBN: 9781849087810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: William Shepherd

ISBN: 9781846036842
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In 480 BC, the Greek and Persian fleets met in a battle in the strait between Attica and the island of Salamis. Although outnumbered, the Greeks delivered a victory that ended the Persian threat to Greece. This book draws on the findings of archaeological, technological and naval research to recreate an important naval campaigns in world history.


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By: Angus Konstam

ISBN: 9781846036866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This concise guide actually covers not just Pictish fortifications, but all those in use in early medieval Scotland, including those of Strathclyde and Rheged and of the Dal Riata. Konstam introduces the reader to the principal types of fort, including the re-use of earlier defences, before offering more in-depth surveys of Dundurn and Dunadd.

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