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  • 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. Yet, the armies of ancient Persia have received relatively little detailed attention, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iran at War

    1500-1988

    by Dr Kaveh Farrokh ...
    Following on from his award-winning book on the history of ancient Persia, Kaveh Farrokh goes on to examine Iran's wartime history from the Safavid dynasty of the 16th and 17th century through to the 1979 Revolution and beyond.He shows how the early military successes were followed by centuries of defeat as the external influences of nations like Russia and Britain began to shape the internal ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD 224–642

    by Dr Kaveh Farrokh ...
    Series Book 110 - Elite
    The Sassanians ruled the last great Empire of Persia before the Arab conquests of the 7th century.Rome's only equal in the classical world, the Sassanian Empire had an enormous impact on the development of architecture, mythology, arts, music, military tactics and technology. Within the Sassanian military, the cavalry was the most influential element, and Sassanian cavalry tactics were adopted by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Saladin

    Hero of Islam

    by Geoffrey Hindley ...
    This biography of the 12th century Islamic military leader provides a fascinating view of the Crusades and the Medieval Muslim world.Saladin was a Kurdish military leader who led the fight against the Crusades and rose to become first Sultan of Egypt and Syria. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced King Richard I of England in one of the most famous ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Afghanistan

    A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban

    by Stephen Tanner ...
    An updated edition of the only complete military history of Afghanistan, from ancient times to the war against the Taliban insurgency—"Interesting, informative, and thought-provoking" ( Military Heritage ).For over two,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The First Clash

    The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization

    by James Lacey ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A compelling and provocative read . . . With a soldier’s eye, Jim Lacey re-creates the battle of Marathon in all its brutal simplicity.”—Barry Strauss, author of Masters of Command**Marathon—one of history’s most pivotal battles. Its name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. In this eye-opening book, military analyst James Lacey ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Cross & Crescent in the Balkans

    The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe (14th–15th centuries)

    by David Nicolle ...
    This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century, one which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was invited by the Christian Byzantine Emperor to cross the Dardanelles from Asia into Europe to assist him in one of the civil wars which were ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warfare in the Ancient World

    by Brian Todd Carey, Joshua B. Allfree, John Cairns ...
    "An interesting study of the development of military organization and strategy across several millennia, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia to the last days of Rome." — The Pegasus ArchiveWarfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BC and the fall ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suleiman the Magnificent: Sultan of the East

    by Harold Lamb ...
    An outstanding scholar of the East, author Harold Lamb here presented another one of his brilliant, carefully worked, and blazingly colorful tapestries of a man and his era - in this case, it is Suleiman, wisest and strongest of the Sultans of Turkey, who lived during the dying days of the Renaissance. Suleiman was building an invincible empire to the East. Drawn at first by temperament and ... Read more

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  • The Ottoman Empire 1326–1699

    by Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Book 62 - Essential Histories
    The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military history.Its rulers were never overthrown by a foreign power and no usurper succeeded in taking the throne. At its height under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Empire became the most powerful state in the world - a multi-national, multilingual empire that stretched from Vienna to the upper ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Cleopatra's Kidnappers

    How Caesars Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar

    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
    A powerful tale of war, romance, and one of history's most desperate gamblesJulius Caesar was nothing if not bold. When, in the wake of his defeat of Pompey at Pharsalus his victorious legions refused to march another step under his command, he pursued his fleeing rival into Egypt with an impossibly small force of Gallic and German cavalry, raw Italian recruits, and nine hundred Spanish prisoners ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Byzantine Wars

    by John Haldon ...
    By the middle of the sixth century the Byzantine emperor ruled a mighty empire that straddled Europe, Asia and North Africa. Within 100 years, this powerful empire had been cut in half. Two centuries later the Byzantine empire was once again a power to be reckoned with, and soon recovered its position as the paramount East Mediterranean and Balkan power, whose fabulous wealth attracted Viking ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus