Early Warfare - General Section
The history of warfare from Greek & Roman conflicts, the Crusades & Medieval
 & Elizabethan times to the Jacobite Rebellions
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ROME SEIZES THE TRIDENT
by Marc G. DeSantis

The Defeat of Carthaginian Seapower and the Forging of the Roman Empire. The Punic Wars, especially the first, were characterized by massive naval battles. The Romans did not possess a navy of their own when war broke out between them and the Carthaginians in 264 B.C. Prior to that, the Romans had relied upon several South Italian Greek cities to provide ships to serve with the legions. The Romans used a captured galley as a model, and constructed hundreds of copies. They used this new navy to wrench maritime superiority from the Carthaginians, most notably at the Battle of Ecnomus.

2016, Pen & Sword, , 9781473826984,< A-01>,253pp, b/w illustrations, battle plans maps, very good in plastic covered d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 37164-01..............................£6.00 

HADRIAN'S WALL: THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER OF ROME
by David Divine

Hadrian's Wall is the most important surviving memorial to the military might of Rome. In the brilliance of it's concept and the character of it's construction it is superior to other defended frontiers of the world - France might well have studied it when constructing the ill-fated Maginot Line. This is a concise and provocative historical outline of the wall as well as a history of the Roman occupation of Britain.

1995, Barnes & Noble, , 1566197570,< A-01>,224pp, photos, diagrams, map, Slight shelfwear. New in dustjacket, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 22398-01..............................£8.00 

ALEXANDER: A HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN & GROWTH OF THE ART OF WAR: TWO VOLUME SET
by Colonel Theodore Ayrault Dodge

From the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, 301 BC With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian. Volume 1 covers the background to warfare in the east and the role of Philip of Macedonia, Alexander's father. It looks at his famous victory on the Issus river in 333 BC from which King Darius and his army fled in dissaray. The second volume takes the story from Alexander becoming the undisputed master of the world after Darius's death through to Alexander's own death at the age of 32.

1993, Greenhill Books, , 1853671479,< A-01>,2 volumes 692pp, numerous illustrations and maps, Very good in d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 12914-01..............................£40.00 

THE ROMAN BARBARIAN WARS
by Ludwig Heinrich Dyck

As Rome grew from a small city state to the mightiest empire of the west, her dominion was contested not only by the civilizations of the Mediterranean, but also by the ‘barbarians’ – the tribal peoples of Europe. The Celtic, the Spanish-Iberian and the Germanic tribes lacked the pomp and grandeur of Rome, but they were fiercely proud of their freedom and gave birth to some of Rome’s greatest adversaries. Subtitled 'The Era of roman Conquest' this book reveals how they fought and how they lived and what their world was like.

2015, Pen & Sword, , 9781473823884,< A-01>,238pp, 5 maps, 16 colour & b/w illustrations, Good in plastic covered d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 37067-01..............................£9.00 

MERCENARIES IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
by Stephen English

Good in plastic covered d/w with previous owner name on endpaper. Mercenaries were a significant factor in many of the wars of the Classical world, being employed in large numbers by several states. The most famous were Xenophon’s ‘Ten Thousand’, who had to cut their way out of the Persian Empire after the death of their employer. Greek infantry were for long the most dominant type, but some, such as Celts and Thracians were hired largely for their love of fighting. Others like Cretan archers or slingers from Rhodes and the Balearic Islands, were valued for their specialist skills.

2012, Pen & Sword, , 9781848843301,< A-01>,212pp, map, Good in plastic covered d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 34542-01..............................£6.00 

THE ARMY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
by Stephen English

Alexander the Great is one of history's most famous military leaders of all time. Most of his thirteen year reign was spent in hard campaigning which conquered half the known world, during which he was never defeated. Whilst biographies of Alexander abound, there are few books dedicated to the Macedonian army which made his dazzling conquests possible and which proved itself the most formidable machine of the age. The author analyses the recruitment, equipment, organisation, tactics, command and control of the fighting arms and describes some of Alexander's most famous battles and sieges.

2009, Pen & Sword, , 9781844158393,< A-01>,164pp, 22 b/w photos & illustrations, Good in d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 34306-01..............................£6.00 

THE SIEGES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
by Stephen English

Most of Alexander the Great's thirteen year reign as king of Macedon was spent in campaigning during which he never besieged a city he did not take. Alexander's sieges were no less vital, and certainly more numerous, than his famous battles in securing his vast empire. Perhaps the most famous example is Tyre, the artificial isthmus he built to reach it still connects it to the mainland. More obscure, but just as instructive of the conqueror's character, is his last siege at the city of the Mallians, where he shamed his reluctant soldiers into action by storming the battlements with just three companions and was severely wounded for his efforts.

2009, Pen & Sword, , 9781848840607,< A-01>,168pp 1plates, Very good in d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 25315-01..............................£9.00 

THE ARMIES OF ANCIENT PERSIA: THE SASSANIANS
by Kaveh Farrokh

Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of Western powers. It was the most formidable rival to the Roman empire for centuries, until Persia, by then under the Sassanians, was overwhelmed by the Islamic conquests in the seventh century AD. The Sassanians, the native Iranian dynasty that ousted their Parthian overlords in AD 226, developed a highly sophisticated army that was able for centuries to hold off all comers. They continued the Parthian's famous winning combination of swift horse archers with heavily-armoured cataphract cavalry, also making much use of war elephants

2017, Pen & Sword, , 9781848848450,< A-01>,466pp, 41 colour & b/w photos, 11 maps, 10 b/w illustrations, New in d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 37683-01..............................£30.00 

AD69: EMPERORS, ARMIES & ANARCHY
by Nic Fields

With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9 June, AD 68. The following year, commonly known as the 'Year of the Four Emperors', was probably one of Rome's worst. Nero's death threw up a critical question. How could a new man occupy the vacant throne in Rome and establish a new dynasty? This situation had never arisen before, since in all previous successions the new emperor had some relation to his predecessor, but the psychotic and paranoid Nero had done away with any eligible relatives.

2014, Pen & Sword, , 9781781591888,< A-01>,240pp, 25 photos & illustrations, 3 maps, Good in plastic covered d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 36582-01..............................£6.00 

ROMAN CONQUESTS: NORTH AFRICA
by Nic Fields

Indentation from rubbed out previous owner name on endpaper. The third in the Roman Conquests series briefly covers Rome's first forays into the dark continent during the First and Second Punic Wars, then covers in detail her vindictive final conquest and destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War. The subsequent long wars against the slippery Numidian prince, Jugurtha, which tested the Roman military system to the limit, also occupy a central place. With a cast of characters including Hannibal, the Scipios, Marius, Sulla and the wily Jugurtha, the book clearly explains how the Romans coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate. Colour plates bring the main troop types vividly to life in meticulously-researched detail.

2010, Pen & Sword, , 9781844159703,< A-01>,192pp, 8 maps, 13 colour photos & plates, very Good in in plastic covered d/w, ,
Subject...Early Warfare
Web No. 36530-01..............................£10.00 

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THE END OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY: VOLUME II

by Alan K. Wildman

Web No.
18344-01

£60.00