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Caesar - The Life of a Colossus by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
$36.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good
From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle, captured and held to ransom by pirates, and almost bankrupted himself by staging games for the masses. As a pol ...Show more
Cannae : Hannibal's Greatest Victory by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
On 2 August 216BC, Hannibal won his greatest victory in the plain north of the small, hilltop town of Cannae in southern Italy. By the end of the day his outnumbered mercenaries had enveloped and massacred the greater part of the largest army Rome had ever fielded, turning this into one of the bloodies ...Show more
Philip And Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient worl ...Show more
The City (#2 City of Victory) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$32.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: City of Victory Ser.
From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, the second book in his authentic, action-packed series set on the frontiers of the Roman Empire. AD 113: NICOPOLIS In the depths of the desert on the empire's Eastern Frontier, the Roman army lays siege to the city of Nicopolis. Estranged from his belove ...Show more
The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy
$74.99 NZD
Category: History
The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world - Parthian and Persian - and how they rose and eventually fell. The Roman empire shaped the culture of the western world against which all other great powers are compared. Stretching from the north of Britai ...Show more
The Fort (#1 City of Victory) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: City of Victory Ser.
AD 105: Dacia. Centurion Flavius Ferox commands an isolated fort beyond the Danube. First in a new adventure trilogy set on the frontier of the Roman Empire. From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set on Rome's Danubian frontier. AD 105: DACIA ...Show more
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