Ancient warfare Books
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Invisible Beast: Understanding the Hellenistic
Book SynopsisThe Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a military power in the mid-fourth century BC, to their defeat at the hands of the Romans at Pydna in 168BC, the pike-wielding heavy infantryman (the phalangite) formed the basis of nearly every Hellenistic army to deploy on battlefields stretching from Italy to India. And yet, despite this dominance, and the vast literature dedicated to detailing the history of the Hellenistic world, there remains fierce debate among modern scholars about how infantry combat in this age was actually conducted. Christopher Matthews critically examines phalanx combat by using techniques such as physical re-creation, experimental archaeology, and ballistics testing, and then comparing the findings of this testing to the ancient literary, artistic and archaeological evidence, as well as modern theories. The result is the most comprehensive and up-to-date study of what heavy infantry combat was like in the age of Alexander the Great and his Successors.
£30.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of
Book SynopsisIf the Middle Ages form the present-day backdrop to the continents of Westeros and Essos, then antiquity is their resonant past. The Known World is haunted by the remnants of distant and powerful civilizations, without whose presence the novels of George R. R. Martin and the ever popular HBO show would lose much of their meaning and appeal. In this essential sequel to Carolyne Larrington's Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov explores the echoes, from the Summer Islands to Storm's End, of a rich antique history. She discusses, for example, the convergence of ancient Rome and the reach, scope, and might of the Valyrian Freehold. She shows how the wanderings of Tyrion Lannister replay the journeys of Odysseus and Aeneas. She suggests that the War of the Five Kings resembles the War of the Four Emperors (68-69 AD). She also demonstrates just how the Wall and the Wildlings advancing on it connect with Hadrian's bulwark against fierce tribes of Picts. This book reveals the remarkable extent to which the entire Game of Thrones universe is animated by its ancient past.
£18.04
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Military History of Late Rome 395-425
Book SynopsisThis ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume gives a detailed account of the changes in organization, equipment, strategy and tactics among both the Roman forces and her enemies in the relevant period, while also giving a detailed but accessible account of the campaigns and battles. The Military History of Late Rome Volume 3 analyses in great detail the pivotal years of 395-425. It was then that the mighty Roman Empire faced the Great Migrations while being wrecked by civil wars. In 395 the task of defending the Roman Empire fell on the great generalissimos Stilicho. He faced a series of hostile bureaucrats, emperors, usurpers and foreign foes until he was killed in a conspiracy in 409. His death led to an event that shook up the Empire to its very core. The city of Rome fell to the Visigoths of Alaric in 410. The book shows why this happened and how and why the Germanic tribes were able to settle inside the borders of the Empire. This, however, is not the entire picture. In contrast to the West Romans, the East Romans survived the civil wars and faced the Germans, Huns and Persia successfully. Why it was so and why were the East Romans able to take control also of West Rome in 425?
£999.99
Brepols N.V. The Cultural Parameters of the Graeco-Roman War
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£142.50
Editions Heimdal Runes: L'Ecriture Des Ancien Germains
Book SynopsisIn France, there are not many books on runes. Ever since the “Introduction to Runology” by Lucien Musset in 1965, very few works have been published on this subject, which is nonetheless very rich. This new work enables the various opportunities of research on the appearance of the runes in Northern Europe to be analysed and understood. The author deals with all the theories that have been voiced and gives a novel analysis to runic inscriptions. He details the main epigraphic sources in old Fuþark of the German Iron Age and places them in their historical context. This work also offers an interesting analysis of the symbolism of the different types of inscriptions, like “ALU”, “LAUKAZ” or “OTA”. Understanding these recurrent inscriptions throughout Northern Europe enables one to revive the mental universe of these ancient Germans.
£31.50
Editions Heimdal Le Costume MéDiéVal De 1320 à 1480
Book SynopsisFinally, a detailed, precise, modern work on medieval dress of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (1320-1480). Taking cues from the works of Viollet-le-Duc and Adrien Harmand, the first part is devoted to jewels and accessories, the second to male dress, and the third to female dress. Rich, color photographs with multiple reenactors allow a true understanding of medieval costume. A work of reference.
£43.20
Safran Editions de la Nubie a Qadech / From Nubia to Kadesh: La
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£999.99
Harrassowitz Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt:
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£118.75
Harrassowitz Camps, Campaigns, Colonies: Roman Military
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£65.55
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Conon the Athenian: Warfare and Politics in the
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£999.99
Austrian Academy of Sciences Pres Societies at War: Proceedings of the Tenth
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£143.00
Schnell & Steiner Argentorate: Le Camp de la Viiie Legion Et La
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£134.90
Reverte Management (Rem) El Arte de la Guerra (the Art of War Spanish
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£20.46
L'Erma Di Bretschneider The Site of the Battle of the Aegates Islands at
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£285.00
