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  • A Short History of the Phoenicians

    Revised Edition

    by Mark Woolmer ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Crete 1941

    The Battle and the Resistance

    by Antony Beevor ...
    The bestselling author of The Battle of Arnhem and D-Day vividly reconstructs the epic WWII struggle for Crete – reissued with a new introductionNazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans

    Heroes and Gods, Ancient Myths

    by Ross Tanner ...
    Series series Heroes and Gods, Ancient Myths
    Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and TitansDid you know that Zeus loved many women, both goddesses and mortals?Did you know that he turned himself into golden rain for one damsel who was locked away in a tower, and turned himself into a swan for another beauty?Did you know that he kidnapped one young princess which led to her brother founding the city of Thebes?And did yo... ... Read more

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  • Alexander The Great: A Life From Beginning To End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    What does it mean to be great? There have been many that have come through the sands of time proclaiming their own greatness. We see it in the news every day; leaders, heroes, tyrants, and even reality star presidential candidates claim that they are great. But what about Alexander the Great?Inside you will read about...✓ Alexander and the Happiness of Horses✓ Aristotle and the First Day of School ... Read more

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  • Behind Civilization

    by Gavin Huang ...
    In this new edition, a hypothesis is put forward for the first time to unify the Big Bang theory and the evolutionary theory by showing both events following the same set of fundamental interrelationships. Thus, they express many fundamental similarities. Moreover, the evolution of multicellular organisms, development of the human body, social development and technological development, all follow ... Read more

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  • Η Ελλάδα στη δεκαετία 1940-1950 Βιβλιογραφικός Οδηγός

    Ιστοριογραφία και μνήμη από τις μέρες του Πολέμου έως το 2021

    Η δεκαετία του 1940 έχει καθιερωθεί πλέον ως ένα από τα σημαντικότερα και δημοφιλέστερα ερευνητικά πεδία της σύγχρονης ελληνικής ιστορίας. Επιπλέον, τα τελευταία χρόνια έχει προστεθεί και ένα έντονο ενδιαφέρον γύρω από τη μελέτη της ιστοριογραφίας και της μνήμης της περιόδου. Αφουγκραζόμενοι την ανάγκη για μια εκ νέου χαρτογράφηση του πεδίου και συγκεκριμένα των πηγών, ξεκινάμε αυτή την προσπάθεια ... Read more

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  • Don't Know Much About Mythology

    Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned

    Series series Don't Know Much About Series
    In this fascinating installment of the New York Times bestselling Don’t Know Much About® series, Kenneth C. Davis explores the great myths of the world and their implications for art, science, religion and culture throughout history.What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill? • Did a pharaoh inspire Moses to worship one God? • What’s a Canaanite demoness doing at a rock concert ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Greece: A History

    Here, from the award-winning writer and historian Alexander Eliot, is the dramatic story of the rise of ancient Greece to the fall of the Greek Empire - from the city-states of Athens and Sparta to the empire of Alexander the Great and the power of Constantine, from myths of gods and goddesses to the foundations of Orthodox Christianity and from Herodotus and Homer to Aristotle and Euclid. The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thermopylae

    The Battle for the West

    An account of the ancient battle between Persia and the alliance of Greek city-states, including the legendary “300 Spartans.”In 480 BCE, Persian king Xerxes led a massive invasion of Greece. A critical point in this invasion was the battle for the pass at Thermopylae—“Hot Gates” in Greek. Xerxes had amassed one of the largest armies yet known to man, while Leonidas’s troops, a group of united ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greek Mythology: Of Gods, Mortals, Monsters & Other Legends of Ancient Greece

    Myths & Legends

    by Jordan Wells ...
    Series series Myths & Legends
    Greek Mythology: Of Gods, Mortals, Monsters & Other Legends of Ancient GreeceReady for the adventures of Greek mythology? Of all the myths and legends of the ancient world, it is Greek mythology that is most celebrated and richest with its characters, themes and stories. Modern adaptations of the myths, like those told through movies and TV series, pale in comparison to the real myths as told by ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great has fascinated people for centuries - and still does. Here, from award-winning historian and journalist Charles Mercer, is the story of the military genius who became a king at twenty told with all the color and drama characteristic of Alexander's time. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trojan War

    A New History

    by Barry Strauss ...
    The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent archeological research, historian and classicist Barry Strauss explains what really happened in Troy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Salonica, City of Ghosts

    Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

    by Mark Mazower ...
    Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Polk Conspiracy

    Murder and Cover-Up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk

    by Kati Marton ...
    Series series Forbidden Bookshelf
    In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the authorGreece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it weakened, and the Greek Civil War—already raging for two years—had torn it apart. One of the earliest clashes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Horizon History of Ancient Greece

    Here, from award-winning historian William Harlan Hale, is the ever-fascinating story of ancient Greece - from the Bronze-Age cultures of Crete and Mycenae, the rise of the Greek city-states, and the wars with Persia to the golden age of Athens under Pericles, the Hellenistic age after Alexander's conquests, and, finally, the slow decline to the status as a Roman province. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greek Revolution

    1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

    by Mark Mazower ...
    **Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the yearFrom one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak**As ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • The History of the Peloponnesian War (Illustrated Edition)

    by Thucydides ...
    Although Herodotus is known as the Father of History, Thucydides (460-395 B.C.) could have made a pretty good claim himself. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Greek city states Sparta and Athens through the year 411 BC. Due to this masterpiece, Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history", because of his strict standards of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • THE REPUBLIC

    philosophy

    by plato ...
    The Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, Politeia) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of δικαιοσύνη (justice), the order and character of the just city-state and the just man, reason by which ancient readers used the name On Justice as an alternative title (not to be confused with the spurious dialogue also titled On Justice). The dramatic date of the dialogue ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • The Last Greek

    Series Book 2 - Commander
    Few writers are better at conjuring up a vision of Ancient Greece' THE TIMES* * * * * * *210BCE.The most powerful empires in the world brawl over the spoils of a declawed Greece.Philopoemen has a vision to end the chaos and anarchy that consumes his homeland - to stop the endless wars and preserve the world he loves. He must resist the urge of the oligarchs to surrender to their oppressors and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • July 1914

    Countdown to War

    by Sean McMeekin ...
    When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict -- much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Parthenon

    Democracy's symbolic birthplace, the famed Acropolis, stands today as a reminder of the glory that was ancient Greece. Atop this ancient citadel - once the center of Athenian civil pride and religion - stands the most famous structure in the Western world, the Parthenon. Here, historian R. Taylor Austen tells the stirring story of the Parthenon but also traces the history of Athens itself - its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greek Revolution (Illustrated Edition)

    by John Lord ...
    The Greek War of Independence was fought against the occupying Ottoman Turks from 1821-1832. Started in part by the Filiki Eteria movement in Greece, uprising 1821 soon lead to a full scale war. By 1828, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom pledged their support to Greece and helped defeat the Turks. In 1832, Greece was recognized as an independent country. Greek Independence day is ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Greek War of Independence

    The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression

    by David Brewer ...
    This “fresh and compelling” study sheds light on the dramatic military, political, and cultural forces that led Greece to liberation in the 19th century (Wall Street Journal).In The Greek War of Independence, Oxford scholar David Brewer presents a vividly detailed and comprehensive study of one of history’s most heroic and bloody struggles for independence. This was the revolution of the Romantic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hellenistic World

    by F. W. Walbank ...
    The vast land empire that Alexander the Great left to his successors was without parallel in Greek history. Alexander’s family and generals created a new order of monarchies and city-states which was to control most of the territory between the Adriatic Sea and western India for three hundred years.The term ‘hellenistic’ is commonly used to describe this world in which Greek was the lingua franca ... Read more

    $6.99 USD