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Book Synopsis From Armageddon to the Fall of Rome by : Erik Durschmied
Download or read book From Armageddon to the Fall of Rome written by Erik Durschmied and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Mediterranean, this most fought-over region in the world, the figures of potentates and conquerors appear god-like: Thutmosis, Leonidas, Xerxes, Pyrrhus, Hannibal, Caesar and Vercingetorix. Ancient history, from Pharaonic Egypt and the Shahs of Persia, to the Golden Age of Greece and the conquests of Alexander the Great and his dream of a universal brotherhood, is dominated by these incredible characters. And then comes Rome, the supreme political event of Ancient History and the world's first superpower. Ancient Battles is the history of incredible men, brave and reckless, lucky and ill-fated, engaging their forces in battles that are prime examples of ruse, chance, and military brilliance. Erik Durschmied looks at seventeen of ancient history's most fascinating battles, many of which have been almost forgotten, but which in reality changed both the world and time itself.
Download or read book War Elephants written by John M. Kistler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. This is the largely forgotten tale of the credit they deserve and the sacrifices they endured.
Book Synopsis Armageddon ; Or, The Overthrow of Romanism and Monarchy by : Samuel Davies Baldwin
Download or read book Armageddon ; Or, The Overthrow of Romanism and Monarchy written by Samuel Davies Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Are We Rome? written by Cullen Murphy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows
Book Synopsis The War After Armageddon by : Ralph Peters
Download or read book The War After Armageddon written by Ralph Peters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of The War in 2020 imagines a post-apocalyptic war launched by America in retaliation against Islamic extremists who have used nuclear weapons to destroy Los Angeles, Israel and parts of Europe, a battle that is complicated by anti-Muslim Christian zealots. Reprint. A best-selling novel.
Download or read book After America written by Mark Steyn and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that President Barack Obama is a dangerous radical who wants not only big government, but the Europeanization of the United States, and explains how citizens can roll back the liberal establishment and return to fundamental American values.
Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Book Synopsis ROME RISING: ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON by : ROME RISING: ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON
Download or read book ROME RISING: ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON written by ROME RISING: ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 1942 draws to a close the world is still in a state of Chaos with fighting occurring nearly worldwide. The intensity of the fighting seems to grow with each passing day. In the far east there is a growing hope by the Allies that serious cracks are developing in the Japanese plan to dominate the region. Following the triumph battle of Midway, Churchill has released to the Pacific submarines and aircraft carriers previously engaged in supply and defense of the lost island of Malta. The added effect was victory after victory in the region. Never thought possible, teams of American generals and Admirals were working hand in hand with their British counterparts to save China and drive the Japanese back. However, this stood in sharp contrast with the setbacks Hitler was inflicting on Stalin. The port city of Sevastopol had fallen and yet another vicious struggle led by German General Erich von Manstein was being waged in the environs of Leningrad and the far north. On the Eurasian Steppe, rebuilt Panzer Divisions from the winter debacle had sweep Stalin's troops before them all the way to the gates of Stalingrad. It now appears the 1942 German Russian offensive has been stopped; however, Italian sea, air and land forces had just successfully captured much of the Russian Black Sea coast. It would appear that things were looking up for Hitler and that Stalin was in a bad way. Although Stalin was furious with his field commanders for letting so much of the motherland slip out of his hands, he knew winter was coming and with it revenge. Literally millions of Soviet troops and thousands of tanks and planes were standing in the wings preparing for a whole host of offenses. All were backed up with thousands of tons of weapons and supplies courtesy Roosevelt and Churchill. But Hitler's iron grip was beginning to slip. In hundreds of secret conversations criticism was building as growing evidences of secret brutality, excesses and regime incompetence were building. Fuel tanks were near empty, serious raw material shortage were at hand, and everyday and night more British and American bombs fell on German factories and cities. The U-boat blockade appeared to be having no effect (not true). Those in the know recognized the imprint of competent leadership by Generals like Heinz Guderian, who had even managed to turn the Italian military around. Here again things were not what they seemed, for while acquiring German and captured technology and equipment, Italian spies and salvage crews also acquired information. Information these spies recently came into revealed how threated Italy's survival truly was. Mussolini was keenly aware this information was both dangerous and potentially an avenue to securing the empire he so greatly desired; perhaps even preeminence in the Axis camp. Before he could win the battle in the shadows, his forces must successfully defend the central Mediterranean. If German Admiral Raeder was correct; the Allies would most surely wager everything they had to regain control and destroy Italy. This great challenge began more quickly than Mussolini would have liked. He knew even if they won, it would probably not be enough, but if they lost nothing could save them. ### After holding off much of British 8th Army, attempting to capture Mersa Matruh, North Africa; Italian forces counter-attack using their modified captured tanks. While Italians attack in the north, German Africa Korps attacks from the south. British forces are driven across the desert past Mussolini’s recently erected Triumphal Arch. One pincer of the Allies’ plan to trap Axis forces in Africa has been removed. In the west, the Allies massive 'Torch' invasion fleet must now take back the Mediterranean on its own.
Download or read book 1177 B.C. written by Eric H. Cline and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age—and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece.
Book Synopsis A History of the Laws of War: Volume 3 by : Alexander Gillespie
Download or read book A History of the Laws of War: Volume 3 written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day. Relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BCE, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions, the author pieces together the history of a subject which is almost as old as civilisation itself. The author shows that as long as humanity has been waging wars it has also been trying to find ways of legitimising different forms of combatants and ascribing rules to them, protecting civilians who are either inadvertently or intentionally caught up between them, and controlling the use of particular classes of weapons that may be used in times of conflict. Thus it is that this work is divided into three substantial parts: Volume 1 on the laws affecting combatants and captives; Volume 2 on civilians; and Volume 3 on the law of arms control. This third volume deals with the question of the control of weaponry, from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age. In doing so, it divides into two parts: namely, conventional weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction. The examination of the history of arms control of conventional weapons begins with the control of weaponry so that one side could achieve a military advantage over another. This pattern, which only began to change centuries after the advent of gunpowder, was later supplemented by ideals to control types of conventional weapons because their impacts upon opposing combatants were inhumane. By the late twentieth century, the concerns over inhumane conventional weapons were being supplemented by concerns over indiscriminate conventional weapons. The focus on indiscriminate weapons, when applied on a mass scale, is the core of the second part of the volume. Weapons of Mass Destruction are primarily weapons of the latter half of the twentieth century. Although both chemical and biological warfare have long historical lineages, it was only after the Second World War that technological developments meant that these weapons could be applied to cause large-scale damage to non-combatants. thi is unlike uclear weapons, which are a truly modern invention. Despite being the newest Weapon of Mass Destruction, they are also the weapon of which most international attention has been applied, although the frameworks by which they were contained in the last century, appear inadequate to address the needs of current times. As a work of reference this set of three books is unrivalled, and will be of immense benefit to scholars and practitioners researching and advising on the laws of warfare. It also tells a story which throws fascinating new light on the history of international law and on the history of warfare itself.
Book Synopsis Armageddon by : Samuel Davis Baldwin
Download or read book Armageddon written by Samuel Davis Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Armageddon: or the overthrow of Romanism and Monarchy; the existence of the United States foretold in the Bible, its future greatness, invasion by allied Europe ... expansion into the millennial republic, and its dominion over the whole world ... Revised edition by : Samuel Daires BALDWIN
Download or read book Armageddon: or the overthrow of Romanism and Monarchy; the existence of the United States foretold in the Bible, its future greatness, invasion by allied Europe ... expansion into the millennial republic, and its dominion over the whole world ... Revised edition written by Samuel Daires BALDWIN and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2 by : Alexander Gillespie
Download or read book A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2 written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day. Relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BCE, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions, the author pieces together the history of a subject which is almost as old as civilisation itself. The author shows that as long as humanity has been waging wars it has also been trying to find ways of legitimising different forms of combatants and ascribing rules to them, protecting civilians who are either inadvertently or intentionally caught up between them, and controlling the use of particular classes of weapons that may be used in times of conflict. Thus it is that this work is divided into three substantial parts: Volume 1 on the laws affecting combatants and captives; Volume 2 on civilians; and Volume 3 on the law of arms control. This second book on civilians examines four different topics. The first topic deals with the targetting of civilians in times of war. This discussion is one which has been largely governed by the developments of technologies which have allowed projectiles to be discharged over ever greater areas, and attempts to prevent their indiscriminate utilisation have struggled to keep pace. The second topic concerns the destruction of the natural environment, with particular regard to the utilisation of starvation as a method of warfare, and unlike the first topic, this one has rarely changed over thousands of years, although contemporary practices are beginning to represent a clear break from tradition. The third topic is concerned with the long-standing problems of civilians under the occupation of opposing military forces, where the practices of genocide, collective punishments and/or reprisals, and rape have occurred. The final topic in this volume is about the theft or destruction of the property of the enemy, in terms of either pillage or the intentional devastation of the cultural property of the opposition. As a work of reference this set of three books is unrivalled, and will be of immense benefit to scholars and practitioners researching and advising on the laws of warfare. It also tells a story which throws fascinating new light on the history of international law and on the history of warfare itself.
Book Synopsis A History of the Laws of War: Volume 1 by : Alexander Gillespie
Download or read book A History of the Laws of War: Volume 1 written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day. Relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BCE, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions, the author pieces together the history of a subject which is almost as old as civilisation itself. The author shows that as long as humanity has been waging wars it has also been trying to find ways of legitimising different forms of combatants and regulating the treatment of captives. This first book on warfare deals with the broad question of whether the patterns of dealing with combatants and captives have changed over the last 5,000 years, and if so, how? In terms of context, the first part of the book is about combatants and those who can 'lawfully' take part in combat. In many regards, this part of the first volume is a series of 'less than ideal' pathways. This is because in an ideal world there would be no combatants because there would be no fighting. Yet as a species we do not live in such a place or even anywhere near it, either historically or in contemporary times. This being so, a second-best alternative has been to attempt to control the size of military forces and, therefore, the bloodshed. This is also not the case by which humanity has worked over the previous centuries. Rather, the clear assumption for thousands of years has been that authorities are allowed to build the size of their armed forces as large as they wish. The restraints that have been applied are in terms of the quality and methods by which combatants are taken. The considerations pertain to questions of biology such as age and sex, geographical considerations such as nationality, and the multiple nuances of informal or formal combatants. These questions have also overlapped with ones of compulsion and whether citizens within a country can be compelled to fight without their consent. Accordingly, for the previous 3,000 years, the question has not been whether there should be a limit on the number of soldiers, but rather who is or is not a lawful combatant. It has rarely been a question of numbers. It has been, and remains, one of type. The second part of this book is about people, typically combatants, captured in battle. It is about what happens to their status as prisoners, about the possibilities of torture, assistance if they are wounded and what happens to their remains should they be killed and their bodies fall into enemy hands. The theme that ties all of these considerations together is that all of the acts befall those who are, to one degree or another, captives of their enemies. As such, they are no longer masters of their own fate. As a work of reference this first volume, as part of a set of three, is unrivalled, and will be of immense benefit to scholars and practitioners researching and advising on the laws of warfare. It also tells a story which throws fascinating new light on the history of international law and on the history of warfare itself.
Book Synopsis The Future of Rome by : Jonathan J. Price
Download or read book The Future of Rome written by Jonathan J. Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores future visions under a universalizing empire that many thought would never die.
Book Synopsis Ephesus (Ephesos) by : Hans Willer Laale
Download or read book Ephesus (Ephesos) written by Hans Willer Laale and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ephesus (Ephesos): An Abbreviated History from Androclus to Constantine XI. The reader is provided with what is known about the city of Ephesus, its people, and its place within the larger framework of ancient and medieval Mediterranean history. Beginning with the Ionian migration and the founding of Ephesus on the west coast of Asia Minor around 1050 B.C., the story moves quickly through periods when the city was ruled successively by local tyrants, Persian kings and satraps, Athenian and Spartan generals, Antigonid, Ptolemaic and Seleucid kings, Roman emperors and Pergamene dynasts, Byzantine emperors and Greek patriarchs, Arab caliphs, Latin popes and crusaders, Seljuk and Beylik Turks, Mongols, and ending with the conquest by the Ottoman Turks in A.D. 1453. Throughout emphasis has been placed on the lives of Ephesian individuals and groups, and their respective contributions to architecture, law, literature, painting, medicine, philosophy, poetry, politics, religion and sculpture, often at times characterized by political and territorial power struggles and ecclesiastical doctrinal controversies and disagreements. The history of Ephesus is of ongoing interest to historians, archaeologists and students of classical literature, science, religion and philosophy, as well as to amateurs and laymen who are keenly interested in Mediterranian antiquity. It is documented with excerpts, biographical references, explanatory footnotes and a few illustrations.
Download or read book Armageddon written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
