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Best value historical books of Ancient History available from Cranston Fine Arts, including books on the Crusades, Greek and Persian Wars, battle of Cannae and historical books on the Saxons, Vikings and Normans.

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Alexander the Great 334-323BC

When Alexander led his combined Macedonian and Greek army across the Dardanelles and into Asia he began the greatest career of military conquest in world history. In eleven short years he overcame the might of the Persian Empire and campaigned across the face of most of the known world. John Warry, an expert on the warfare of the Classical world, describes in great detail the course of this epic achievement.

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The Army of Alexander the Great by Nick Sekunda & Angus McBride

Book serial number Osprey MA148.   Price £8.99

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Cannae 216BC, Hannibal Smashes Rome's Army by Mark Healy

In the annals of war, one can identify a small number of battles that can be described as classic - feats of military endeavour that have held generals and historians spellbound down the centuries. Cannae is such a battle. In this detailed account, Mark Healy describes Hannibal's invasion of Italy, his destruction of the Roman Armies sent against him, the mighty clash at Cannae and the Fabian strategy that denied the Carthaginians the full fruits of their victory. Background information explains contemporary military organisation, recruiting and deployment.

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Book serial number Osprey 36

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Hannibal by Ernle Bradford

Hannibal had long known his fate should the Romans ever lay hands on him. He had taken an army right through Spain and into what is now France, crossed the Alps (at a time of year when no-one believed it possible), and invaded Italy. Then, for fifteen years, he used the country as his battlefield and his home, destroying Roman armies with almost contemptuous ease. For centuries after his death Roman mothers would frighten their children into behaving by telling them: 'Hannibal is at the gates!'

Even today, Hannibal stands as one of the greatest generals in the history of warfare and his battlefield tactics are still studied in military academies all over the world. Ernle Bradford has given us a complete biography, exploring the strategies of his greatest triumphs and showing us Hannibal the soldier, the general, the statesman and the private man - revealing a personal charisma and leadership ability that makes his presence still felt in every country bordering the Mediterranean.

Book serial number W12. Price £4.99. Fully illustrated paperback with 223 pages.

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Armies of the Carthaginian Wars 265-146BC by Terence Wise & Richard Hook

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Book serial number Osprey MA121

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The Roman War Machine by John Peddie

Book serial number BK15. Price £14.99 . Hard back with 169 pages, packed  with black and white illustrations and photographs.

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Byzantine Armies 886-1118 by Ian Heath & Angus McBride

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Book serial number Osprey MA89

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Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars by David Nicolle & Angus McBride

Book is packed with black and white photographs and colour illustrations.

Book price £8.99. Book serial number Osprey MA154.

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Early Roman Armies by Nick Sekunda, Simon Northwood & Richard Hook

Book is packed with black and white photographs and colour illustrations.

Book price £8.99. Book serial number Osprey MA283.

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Rome's Enemies 1 - Germanics and Dacians by Peter Wilcox & G Embleton

Book is packed with black and white photographs and colour illustrations.

Book price £8.99. Book serial number Osprey MA129.

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Saxon, Viking and Norman by Terence Wise & G A Embleton

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Book serial number Osprey MA85

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Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, Tyrant by Major General J.F.C. Fuller

This book covers Caesar's rise to power, and deals in detail with his campaign in Gaul. It follows his career from then until his death, through the conflict of Pompei and the futile Alexandrian campaign. The tactics and strategy of Caesar's wars are always related to their political and diplomatic matrix, and through his conduct as a general, much of his great gift was for dash - frequently extracting himself from an apparently impossible position by the speed and impetus of his response. But frequently the position was due in the first place to Caesar's own error.

Julius Caesar bestrode the ancient world in a way that was unrivalled except for Alexander the Great. Major-General Fuller's cool appraisal shows that he was a far more interesting and complex man than his legend often allows.

Book serial number W21. Price £5.99. Fully illustrated paperback with 336 pages.

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The Roman Army From Caesar to Trajan by Michael Simkins & Ron Embleton

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Book serial number Osprey MA46

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Yarmuk 636AD, The Muslim Conquest of Syria by David Nicolle

Straddling the modern UN ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, the battlefield of Yarmuk is a rugged, ancient landscape. Here thirteen centuries ago, the army of Byzantium, successor to the Roman Empire, confronted the new, dynamic power of the Muslim Arabs. With a wide range of rarely seen illustrations, plus superb full-colour maps and graphics, David Nicolle sifts fact from legend to tell the story of one of history's truly decisive campaigns - from the Muslim invasion of 633/4 to the fall of Byzantine Syria.

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Book serial number Osprey 31

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Armies of the Crusades by Terence Wise & G A Embleton

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Book serial number Osprey MA75

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The Greek and Persian Wars 500-323BC by Jack Cassin-Scott

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Book serial number Osprey MA69

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