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Rome and Her Enemies

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(Also see the listing of related Osprey military history references)


The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Penguin Historical Atlases), by Christopher Scarre (Penguin USA, Sept. 1995). Softcover.


Early and Republican Roman

Greece & Rome at War cover Greece and Rome at War, by Peter Connolly (Stackpole, March 1998). 320 pages.

Warfare in the Classical World : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome, by John Gibson Warry (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Oct. 1995). Softcover.

Hannibal : A History of the Art of War Among the Carthagonians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (Da Capo Press, Sept. 1995). Softcover.

NEW The 1st Punic War: A Military History, by J. F. Lazenby (Stanford Univ., April 1996). 205 pages, softcover. (Also available in hard cover edition.)

NEW!!! The Punic Wars by Adrian Goldsworthy (Cassell Academic, May 2001). Hardcover, 352 pages.

Battles of the Greek and Roman WorldsBattles of the Greek and Roman Worlds : A Chronological Compendium of 667 Battles to 31Bc, from the Historians of the Ancient World, by John Drogo Montagu (Greenhill Books, April 2000). Hardcover, 256 pages.

NEW!!! The Making of the Roman Army: From Republic to Empire by Lawrence Keppie (Univ. of Oklahoma, March 1998). Softcover, 292 pages.

Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War by Gregory Daley (Routledge Pub., April 2001).

Cannae by Adrian Goldsworthy (Sterling, March 2002).


Imperial Rome

NEW!!! Roman Warfare (History of Warfare Series, John Keegan, ed.) by Adrian Goldsworthy (Cassell Academic, April 2000). Hardcover, 224 pages.

Caesar : A History of the Art of War Among the Romans Down to the End of the Roman Empire", by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (Da Capo Press, Oct. 1997). 816 pages, softcover.

Roman Army : Wars of the Empire (Brassey's History of Uniforms), by Graham Sumner (Brassey, Oct. 1997). 144 pages, hardcover.

The Roman Imperial Army : Of the First and Second Centuries A.D. (3rd Ed.), by Graham Webster (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, March 1998). 400 pages, softcover.

The Roman Army at War: 100 BC-AD 200, by Adrian K. Goldsworthy (Clarendon Press, Sept. 1998). 328 pages, softcover.

Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire : From the First Century A.D. to the Third, by Edward N. Luttwak (Johns Hopkins Univ., Feb. 1979). Softcover.

The Making of the Roman Army: From Republic to Empire, by Lawrence Keppie (Univ. of Oklahoma, March 1998). 272 pages. (Note, this book is poorly reviewed by an Amazon reader).

NEW!!! The Imperial Roman Army by Yann Le Bohec (Rutledge, March 2000). 344 pages.

Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt, by Richard Alston (Routledge, 1998). Hardcover, 272 pages.

Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier : Vindolanda and Its People, by Alan K. Bowman (Routledge, 1998). 160 pages, softcover.

Roman Military Equipment: Experiment and Reality (Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, Vol 6), by C Van Driel-Murray (Ed.), (Oxbow, April 1997).

NEW!!! A Study of Ancient Roman Amphibious and Offensive Sea-Ground Task Force Operations by Valentine J. Belfiglio (Edwin Mellen Press, Jan. 2001).

Judea Trembles Under Rome; The Untold Details of the Greek and Roman Military Domination of Ancient Palestine, by Rudolph R. Windsor, (Windsor Golden Series, Jan. 1994). Softcover, 171 pages.

The Jewish War, by Flavius Josephus, et al, (Penquin Classics, Viking Press, April 1984). Softcover, 511 pages. Hardcover edition from Harvard University Press also available.

Conquest: The Roman Invasion of England, by John Peddie (Palgrave, June 1997). Softcover, 240 pages.

The Roman Cavalry: From the First to Third Century AD by Karen Dixon and Pat Southern (Routledge, Dec. 1997).

Riding For Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guards by Michael Speidel (Harvard Univ., March 1997).

The Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 337: A Sourcebook by Brian Campbell (Routledge, May 1994).

Trajan: Optimus Princeps by Julian Bennett (Indiana Univ., March 2001).


Fall of Rome

The Rise and Decline of the Late Roman Field Army, by Richard S. Cromwell (White Mane, May 1998). 97 pages.

Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation, by Arthur Ferrill (Norton, June 1998). Softcover.

The Late Roman Army by Pat Southern (Yale Univ. Press, Aug. 1996). 240 pages.

A History of the Ostrogoths, by Thomas. S. Burns (Indiana Univ., Feb. 1991). Softcover. (general history)

The Celtic Empire: The First Millenium of Celtic History - 1000 BC - 51 AD by Peter Berresford Ellis (Carol & Graf, Sept. 2001). 208 pages.

The Early Germans by Malcolm Todd (Blackwell, Oct. 1995). Softcover, 304 pages.

The History of the Goths by Herwig Wolfram (Univ. of California, 1990). Softcover.

The Goths by Peter Heather (Blackwell, 1998). Hardcover, 384 pages.

The Roman Empire and its Germanic People by Herwig Wolfram (Univ. of California, 1998). 384 pages.

The Lombards: The Ancient Longobards by Neil Christie (Blackwell, 1998). 264 pages.


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