{"id":11283,"date":"2016-01-30T19:55:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=11283"},"modified":"2016-01-30T19:55:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T01:55:10","slug":"my-top-3-ancient-history-book-suggestions-for-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/30\/my-top-3-ancient-history-book-suggestions-for-january-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 3 Ancient History Book Suggestions for January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a History Geek and Amateur Historian I wanted to share with you guys a few Ancient History books you might like. Although Ancient History is not really something I read a lot, sometimes my Military History research takes me there.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Ghost\"<\/p>\n

The Ghost of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. For millennia, Carthage\u2019s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. No general since has matched Hannibal\u2019s most unexpected, innovative, and brutal military victory. Now Robert L. O\u2019Connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving us a stirring account of this apocalyptic battle, its causes and consequences.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connell brilliantly conveys how Rome amassed a giant army to punish Carthage\u2019s masterful commander, how Hannibal outwitted enemies that outnumbered him, and how this disastrous pivot point in Rome\u2019s history ultimately led to the republic\u2019s resurgence and the creation of its empire. Piecing together decayed shreds of ancient reportage, the author paints powerful portraits of the leading players, from Hannibal\u2014resolutely sane and uncannily strategic\u2014to Scipio Africanus, the self-promoting Roman military tribune. Finally, O\u2019Connell reveals how Cannae\u2019s legend has inspired and haunted military leaders ever since, and the lessons it teaches for our own wars.<\/p>\n

\"Empires\"
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In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic clash between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean and the center of the world. In Empires of the Sea, acclaimed historian Roger Crowley has written a thrilling account of this brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe, a fast-paced tale of spiraling intensity that ranges from Istanbul to the Gates of Gibraltar. Crowley conjures up a wild cast of pirates, crusaders, and religious warriors struggling for supremacy and survival in a tale of slavery and galley warfare, desperate bravery and utter brutality. Empires of the Sea is a story of extraordinary color and incident, and provides a crucial context for our own clash of civilization<\/p>\n

\"persian\"<\/p>\n

Persian Fire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland\u2019s brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.<\/p>\n

All of the Book Descriptions come from Ancient-Origins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

So go Pick Up a Book, Remember, Knowledge is Power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a History Geek and Amateur Historian I wanted to share with you guys a few Ancient History books you might like. Although Ancient History is not really something I read a lot, sometimes my Military History research takes me there.-SF   The Ghost of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3647,1427,475,1286],"tags":[4198,4199,4200,4201,4202],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}