From Armageddon To The Fall Of Rome: How The Ancient Warlords Changed The World

Three millennia have passed since the great warlords strode the Earth. Even today, the histories of these bloody-handed demigods are shrouded in myth and fantasy: Thutmosis and King David, Leonidas and Xerxes, Alexander, Hannibal, Vercingetorix and the mighty Caesar.

'From Armageddon To The Fall Of Rome' is the story of these myth makers. Brave and reckless, intelligent and foolish, lucky and ill-fated, their battles were won and lost by ruse, trickery, chance, stupidity and by unsurpassed military brilliance.

Erik Durschmied brilliantly analyses seventeen of ancient history's most fascinating and brutal battles, some of which have been almost forgotten, but all of which changed the shape of the world and set the borders of our future.