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...
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...