13 best-selling ancient history books like Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece by Philip Matyszak

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Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece

By: Philip Matyszak

4.25

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This will be the third in the Roman Conquests series (following Italy and Spain) and one of those w…

If you liked the ancient history plot in Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece by Philip Matyszak , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Roman Conquests: Italy

By: Ross Cowan

3.70

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The first of the Roman Conquests series, this volume will look at how Rome went from just another L… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • military history
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2. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

By: Tom Holland

4.16

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
Cover of The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2) by John Le Carré

3. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

By: John Le Carré

3.99

Format: 589 pages, Paperback

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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"Let's die of it before we're too old."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

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4. The Punic Wars

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.19

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

An impressive new historian of Roman warfare--highly praised by John Keegan--has written a thorough… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • military history
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5. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
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6. The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)

By: Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first … read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
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7. Scipio Africanus

By: B.H. Liddell Hart , Michael Grant , Michael Grant

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • military history
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8. The Norman Conquest

By: Marc Morris

4.62

Format: None pages,

An epic tale, with violence at its heart, and a triumph of narrative history. The Norman Conquestst… read more

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  • history
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9. Antigonus the One-Eyed: Greatest of the Successors

By: Jeff Champion

3.77

Format: 134 pages,

Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's … read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • military history
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10. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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11. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

By: Tom Holland

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Rubiconand other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly… read more

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12. Caesar: Life of a Colossus

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

Format: 583 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

13. The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died

By: Philip Jenkins

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, reveal… read more

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Cover of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) by John Le Carré

14. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

15. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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16. The Looking Glass War

By: John Le Carré

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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17. Pyrrhus of Epirus

By: Jeff Champion

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Pyrrhus of Epirus was rated by Hannibal as the second greatest general yet seen (placing himself th… read more

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18. The Agricola and The Germania

By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly

3.94

Format: 229 pages,

The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more

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19. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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  • history
  • military history
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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20. Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece

By: Philip Matyszak

4.25

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This will be the third in the Roman Conquests series (following Italy and Spain) and one of those w… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy

21. Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.38

Format: 620 pages, Hardcover

This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of t… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • military history
"...if the Greeks joined together in the Panhellenic cause and attacked Persia to take land and wealth. Once conquered, Asian barbarians would work the field and tend the cattle as slaves or helot-lik…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

"The Macedonians and Greek has been raised to despise Persians and all Asians as barbarians, fit only to be slaves, and the defeat of Darius and his great armies can only have reinforced their immense…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

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22. The 400 Silent Years: from Malachi to Matthew (Illustrated)

By: H.A. Ironside

4.17

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the history between the Old and New Testaments? Most people are not even aware there is suc… read more

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  • history
Cover of Britain at War with the Asante Nation, 1823–1900: "The White Man's Grave" by Stephen Manning

23. Britain at War with the Asante Nation, 1823–1900: "The White Man's Grave"

By: Stephen Manning

4.10

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the n… read more

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  • history
Cover of Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory by Adrian Goldsworthy

24. Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.05

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome's most devastating … read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Bohemond of Taranto: Crusader and Conqueror by Georgios Theotokis

25. Bohemond of Taranto: Crusader and Conqueror

By: Georgios Theotokis

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, unofficial leader of the First Crusade, was a man of boundles… read more

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  • history
  • military history
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26. Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome

By: Dexter Hoyos

4.00

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Carthage was the western Mediterranean’s first superpower, long before Rome, and her military histo… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
Cover of North Africa (Roman Conquests) by Nic Fields

27. North Africa (Roman Conquests)

By: Nic Fields

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The third in the Roman Conquests series will briefly cover Rome's first forays into the dark contin… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
Cover of Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC - AD 30: History, Organization and Equipment (Armies of the Past) by Gabriele Esposito

28. Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC - AD 30: History, Organization and Equipment (Armies of the Past)

By: Gabriele Esposito

4.00

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by t… read more

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  • history

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Ross Cowan

3.70

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4.16

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Adrian Goldsworthy

4.19

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Mary Beard

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Philip Freeman

4.31

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Paul Kriwaczek

3.91

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