Adrian Goldsworthy is a respected British author with a focus on historical fiction and non-fiction books, particularly in the field of Ancient Roman history. Born in 1969, he studied Ancient and Modern History at St. John's College, Oxford, and went on to earn a D.Phil. degree. His academic background and expertise in ancient military history have lent considerable authority to his writings.
After his time at Oxford, Goldsworthy spent two years as a Junior Research Fellow at Cardiff University and taught part-time at King's College London. He also spent six years as an assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame's London programme. However, he now writes full-time, devoting his time to sharing his knowledge and passion for history through his books and other pursuits.
Goldsworthy's work is known for its depth and detail, providing readers with a rich understanding of historical figures and events. His books, which include biographies of notable figures such as Augustus and Julius Caesar, have earned him a reputation as a leading historian in his field. In particular, his biography of Caesar, titled "Caesar: Life of a Colossus," offers a comprehensive look at the life of one of Rome's greatest leaders, including his time as a captive of pirates, his political maneuverings, and his religious duties.
In addition to his writing, Goldsworthy is also an accomplished lecturer and consultant, sharing his insights and expertise with a wide audience. He has worked with the History Channel, National Geographic, and the BBC on historical documentaries, further solidifying his status as a leading voice in the field of Ancient Roman history. Despite his many accomplishments, Goldsworthy remains a humble and dedicated scholar, committed to sharing his love of history with readers and viewers around the world.
City Of Victory Books
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The Fort
2021
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The City
2022
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The Wall
2023
Napoleonic Wars Books
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True Soldier Gentlemen
2008
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Beat the Drums Slowly
2011
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Send Me Safely Back Again
2012
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All in Scarlet Uniform
2013
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Run Them Ashore
2014
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Whose Business is to Die
2015
Vindolanda Books
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Vindolanda
2017
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The Encircling Sea
2018
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Brigantia
2020
Standalone Novels
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Hill 112
2024
Non-Fiction Books
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The Roman Army At War
1996
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The Punic Wars
2000
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Caesar's Civil War
2002
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In the Name of Rome
2003
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Roman Warfare
2005
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Caesar
2006
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Rome at War
2005
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Cannae
2007
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The Fall of the West / How Rome Fell
2009
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Antony and Cleopatra
2010
11
The Complete Roman Army
2011
12
The Fall of Carthage
2012
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Caesar's Civil War 49-44 BC
2013
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Augustus
2014
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Pax Romana
2016
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Hadrian's Wall
2018
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Philip and Alexander
2020
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Rome and Persia
2023
General Military Books
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Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple (By: Stuart Smith)
1950
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The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast of Devon in 1944 (By: Mark Rogerson, Ken Small)
1988
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Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage (By: Rick Jolly)
1989
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Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War (By: Thomas A. Desjardin)
1999
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Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship (By: Angus Konstam)
2003
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Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan (By: Martin Pegler)
2004
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Rome at War
2005
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Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War (By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean)
2006
9
Rolling Thunder In A Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited (By: Andrew Wiest)
2006
10
FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II (By: Gordon L. Rottman)
2007
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An Officer's Manual of the Western Front: 1914-1918 (By: Stephen Bull)
2008
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Warship 2008 ( By: John Jordan)
2008
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Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II (By: Terry Crowdy)
2008
14
Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World (By: Brian Lavery)
2009
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The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 (By: Blair Worden)
2009
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No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II (General Mi (By: Kenneth K. Koskodan)
2009
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Battleground Prussia (By: Prit Buttar)
2010
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The Road to Victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa (By: Dale A. Dye, Robert J. O'Neill)
2011
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The Spitfire Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 (By: Martin Robson)
2011
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Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare (By: Clive Cussler, James P. Delgado)
2011
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Warship 2011 ( By: John Jordan)
2011
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Quick Training for War (By: Robert Baden-Powell, Martin Robson)
2011
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Panther: Germany's quest for combat dominance (By: Michael; Green Gladys Green)
2012
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The Para Fitness Guide (By: Sam McGrath)
2012
25
The Rice Paddy Navy: U.S. Sailors Undercover in China (By: Linda Kush)
2012
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The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945 (By: Christopher Westhorp)
2012
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Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq (By: Lou DiMarco)
2012
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America's Elite: U.S. Special Forces From The American Revolution To The Present Day (By: Chris McNab)
2014
29
American Tanks & AFVs of World War II (By: Michael Green)
2014
30
Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne (By: Ian Senior)
2014
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No Victory in Valhalla: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Bastogne to Berchtesgaden (By: Ian Gardner)
2014
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The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945 (By: Christopher Westhorp)
2014
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Company of Heroes: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam (By: Eric Poole)
2015
34
Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 (By: Prit Buttar)
2015
35
The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume I: 1939–42 (By: Thomas Anderson)
2015
36
Finland at War: the Winter War 1939-40 (By: Vesa Nenye)
2015
37
American Knights: The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion (By: Victor Failmezger)
2015
38
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 (By: Chris Birks, Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter, Toni Wirtanen)
2016
39
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution (By: Peter McPhee)
2016
40
Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass (By: Trevor Absolon)
2016
41
Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries (By: Jeremy Black)
2016
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We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 (By: Robert Forczyk)
2016
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Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 (By: Dennis E. Showalter)
2016
44
With Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon (By: Gene Fax)
2017
45
Loco Spotter’s Guide (By: Stuart Black)
2017
46
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II (By: Gavin Mortimer)
2017
47
Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin (By: Mungo Melvin)
2017
48
Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II (By: Michael G. Walling)
2017
49
Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants (By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear)
2017
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Shadow over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45 (By: Jim Laurier, Robert Forsyth)
2017
51
Shot Down and in the Drink: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Saved from the Sea in WWII (By: Graham Pitchfork)
2017
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The Splintered Empires (By: Prit Buttar)
2017
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Panther (By: Thomas Anderson)
2017
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The Second World Wars (By: Victor Davis Hanson)
2017
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Concorde Pocket Manual (By: Richard Johnstone-Bryden)
2017
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Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
2017
57
Case Red: The Collapse of France (By: Robert Forczyk)
2017
58
Legion versus Phalanx (By: Myke Cole)
2018
59
The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All Marks in Service 1941–1945 (By: Martin Robson)
2018
60
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II (By: Jeffrey R. Cox)
2018
61
Cutty Sark Pocket Manual (By: Arron Hewett, Louise MacFarlane)
2018
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The British Home Guard Pocketbook (By: A.F.U. Green)
2018
63
Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern (By: Liesl Bradner, Phil Stern)
2018
64
Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
2018
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HMS Belfast Pocket Manual (By: John Blake)
2018
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The German Soldier's Pocket Manual: 1914–18 (By: Stephen Bull)
2018
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Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage (By: Martin Robson)
2018
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Valley Of The Shadow: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu (By: Kevin M. Boylan, Luc Olivier)
2018
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Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On (By: Leigh Neville)
2018
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Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence (By: Jeremy Black, National Archives)
2018
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The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939–45 (By: Christian Jennings)
2018
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Charlie Company Journeys Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans (By: Andrew Wiest)
2018
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Run to the Sound of the Guns: The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq (By: Nicholas Moore, Mir Bahmanyar)
2018
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Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov)
2018
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Hitler's Death (By: Luke Daly-Groves)
2019
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The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present (By: Chris McNab, Mark Galeotti)
2019
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The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers (By: Angus Konstam)
2019
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How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor's Guide (By: National Archives)
2019
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An Englishman Abroad: SOE Agent Dick Mallaby’s Italian Missions, 1943–45 (By: Gianluca Barneschi)
2019
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War Bows: Longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese yumi (By: Mike Loades)
2019
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Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS (By: Alastair MacKenzie)
2019
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Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions (By: Thomas Anderson)
2019
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Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
2019
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World War II Battle by Battle (By: Nikolai Bogdanovic)
2019
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Doctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands (By: Rick Jolly)
2019
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Warship 2019 ( By: John Jordan)
2019
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Scapa 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet (By: Innes McCartney)
2019
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Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway (By: David Rigby)
2019
89
German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a U-boat (By: Aaron Stephan Hamilton)
2019
90
Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov)
2019
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The Hurricane Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1939–45 (By: Martin Robson)
2019
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On a Knife's Edge (By: Prit Buttar)
2019
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Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 (By: Robert Forczyk)
2019
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Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II (By: Ian Gardner)
2019
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The Persian War: In Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices (By: William Shepherd)
2019
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Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 (By: Jeffrey R. Cox)
2020
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Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed Through Letters and Documents from the Time (By: National Archives)
2020
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Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness (By: Sam McGrath)
2020
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Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II (By: Chris McNab)
2020
100
The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy (By: Richard Endsor)
2020
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Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18 (By: Rob Johnson)
2020
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The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 (By: Anthony Tucker-Jones)
2020
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Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44 (By: Victor Failmezger)
2020
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I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
2020
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The Reckoning (By: Prit Buttar)
2020
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge (By: Angus Konstam)
2020
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Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14 (By: Ben Barry)
2020
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The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader? (By: Kieran Whitworth)
2021
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Warship 2021 (By: John Jordan)
2021
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Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov)
2021
111
Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield (By: Innes McCartney)
2021
Smithsonian History of Warfare Books
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War in the Air 1914-45 (By: Williamson Murray)
1999
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The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (By: Brian Holden Reid)
1999
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Warfare in the Eighteenth Century (By: Jeremy Black)
1999
4
The Second World War in Europe (By: Charles Messenger)
1999
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The Second World War in the East (By: H.P. Willmott)
2000
6
The Art Of War: War And Military Thought (By: Martin van Creveld)
2000
7
War at Sea in the Age of Sail (By: Andrew D. Lambert)
2000
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War at Sea in the Ironclad Age (By: Richard Hill)
2000
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History of Warfare: The Renaissance at War (By: John Keegan, Thomas F. Arnold)
2001
10
Wars of National Liberation (By: Daniel Moran)
2001
11
The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks (By: Victor Davis Hanson)
2002
12
Roman Warfare
2005
Essential Histories Books
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The Hundred Years’ War: 1337–1453 (By: Anne Curry)
1992
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The French Revolutionary Wars (By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)
2001
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The Korean War: 1950–53 (By: Carter Malkasian)
2001
4
The Vietnam War 1956–1975 (By: Andrew Wiest)
2002
5
War in Japan 1467–1615 (By: Stephen Turnbull)
2002
6
Caesar's Civil War
2002
7
The Franco-Prussian War: 1870–71 (By: Stephen Badsey)
2003
8
The Ottoman Empire 1326–1699 (By: Stephen Turnbull)
2003
9
The Collapse of Yugoslavia: 1991–99 (By: Alastair Finlan)
2004
10
The Russian Civil War 1918–22 (By: David Bullock)
2008
11
The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750 (By: David Nicolle)
2009
12
The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969–2007 (By: Aaron Edwards)
2011
13
The Northern Ireland Troubles: 1969–2007 (By: Aaron Edwards)
2011
14
The Jacobite Rebellion: 1745–46 (By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)
2011
15
The Soviet-Afghan War 1979-89 (By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)
2012
16
The Second War of Italian Unification 1859–61 (By: Frederick C. Schneid)
2012
17
The Rise of Imperial Rome AD 14–193 (By: Duncan B. Campbell)
2013
18
The Wars of Spanish American Independence 1809–29 (By: John Fletcher)
2013
19
The War of the Roses: 1455-1485 (By: Michael Hicks)
2014
20
Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 (By: Mark Galeotti)
2014
21
Russia's Five-Day War ( By: Mark Galeotti)
2023
22
The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453 (By: Anne Curry)
2023
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The American Revolution: 1774–83 (By: Daniel Marston)
2023
24
Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 (By: Mark Galeotti)
2024
25
The Soviet–Afghan War: 1979–89 (By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)
2024
Adrian Goldsworthy Anthologies
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Great Commanders of the Ancient World, 1479BC - 453AD