Название: Osprey Campaign 36 - Cannae 216 BC: Hannibal smashes Rome's Army
Автор: Mark Healy
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1855324709
Год: 1994
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 17,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world.

Название: Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty
Автор: Anthony A. Barrett
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691172315
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 368
Размер: 13,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burned. It’s a story that has been told for more than two millennia―and it’s likely that almost none of it is true.

Название: The Perilous Road to Rome and beyond: The Memoirs of a Gordon Highlander
Автор: Edward Grace
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1844155609
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 12,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The author fought with the 6th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders during the campaigns of 1st Army in Tunisia and in Italy thereafter. As a young platoon commander he and his men were in the thick of the fighting. Wounded during the desperate action at Anzio, he wrote notes of all that had happened in exact detail and the result is a memoir both fresh and authentic.

Название: The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon
Автор: Monique O'Connell, Eric R Dursteler
Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421419017
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 12,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Located at the intersection of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Mediterranean has connected societies for millennia, creating a shared space of intense economic, cultural, and political interaction. Greek temples in Sicily, Roman ruins in North Africa, and Ottoman fortifications in Greece serve as reminders that the Mediterranean has no fixed national boundaries or stable ethnic and religious identities.

Название: Rome and her Empire
Автор: David Shotter
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138167452
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 464
Размер: 23,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The name of Rome excites a picture of power and organisation, as do the widely-spread ruins that Roman civilization left behind. Yet Rome grew out of a collection of small villages and major developments such as the growth of Empire were unplanned and completely unprepared for.

Название: Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Автор: Edward J. Watts
Издательство: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093817
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 29,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author.
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy.