Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resist...
Antony BeevorThe bestselling author of Stalingrad and D-Day vividly reconstructs the epic WWII struggle for Crete – reissued with a new introduction. Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on ta...
The Shortest History of Greece: The O...
James HeneageDiscover the cultural and political riches of Greece across 3,000 years, from classical might to modern rebirth. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. Philosophy, art, democ...
History of the Peloponnesian War
ThucydidesThe entire Greek world plunged into three decades of bloodshed in 431 B.C., when the ongoing friction between Athens and Sparta exploded into war. Ten years into the struggle, the Athenian general Thucydides was dismissed for a milita...