BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 1: THE GRECO-PERSIAN WARS

Bradford, Ernle. Thermopylae: The Battle for the West. New York: Da Capo Press, 1980.

Creasy, Sir Edward and Joseph B. Mitchell. Twenty Decisive Battles of the World. New York: MacMillan & Co., 1964.

Green, Peter. The Greco-Persian Wars. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Strauss, Peter. The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

CHAPTER 2: THE WARS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Green, Peter. Alexander of Macedon, 356—323 BC. A Historical Biography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

CHAPTER 3: THE PUNIC WARS

Dando-Collins, Stephen. Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Goldsworthy, Adrian. The Punic Wars. London: Cassell & Co., 2000.

Prevas, John. Hannibal Crosses the Alps: The Invasion of Italy and the Punic Wars. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.

CHAPTER 4: THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS

Bury, J. B. The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.

Chambers, James. The Devil’s Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe. New York: Atheneum, 1979.

Klingaman, William K. The First Century: Emperors, Gods, and Everyman. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.

Reston, James. The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 AD. New York: Doubleday & Co, 1998.

Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

CHAPTER 5: THE MUSLIM CONQUESTS

Klingaman, William K. The First Century: Emperors, Gods, and Everyman. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.

O’Shea, Stephen. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. New York: Walker & Co, 2006.

CHAPTER 6: THE RECONQUISTA

Creasy, Sir Edward and Joseph B. Mitchell. Twenty Decisive Battles of the World. New York: MacMillan & Co., 1964.

Davies, Norman. Europe: A History. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

O’Shea, Stephen. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. New York: Walker & Co, 2006.

CHAPTER 7: THE NORMAN CONQUEST

Creasy, Sir Edward and Joseph B. Mitchell. Twenty Decisive Battles of the World. New York: MacMillan & Co., 1964.

Howarth, David. 1066: The Year of the Conquered. London: Penguin Books, 1981.

Reston, James. The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 AD. New York: Doubleday & Co, 1998.

CHAPTER 8: THE CRUSADES

Madden, Thomas F. Crusades: The Illustrated History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.

O’Shea, Stephen. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. New York: Walker & Co, 2006.

CHAPTER 9: THE MONGOL CONQUESTS

Chambers, James. The Devil’s Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe. New York: Atheneum, 1979.

Weatherford, Jack. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004.

CHAPTER 10: HUNDRED YEARS WAR

Davies, Norman. Europe: A History. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Seward, Desmond. The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337—1453. New York: Atheneum, 1978.

CHAPTER 11: THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF MEXICO

Leon-Portilla, Miguel. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Accounting of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press, 1962.

Thomas, Hugh. Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995.

CHAPTER 12: THE THIRTY YEARS WAR

Davies, Norman. Europe: A History. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Wedgwood, C. V. The Thirty Years War. New York: New York Review of Books, 2005.

CHAPTER 13: THE SEVEN YEARS WAR

Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1745—1766. New York: Knopf, 2000.

McLynn, Frank. 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World. New York: Grove Press, 2004.

CHAPTER 14: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Bobrick, Benson. Angel in the Whirlwind: Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Creasy, Sir Edward and Joseph B. Mitchell. Twenty Decisive Battles of the World. New York: MacMillan & Co., 1964.

CHAPTER 15: THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS

Furet, Francois & Richet, Denis. The French Revolution. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1965.

Hibbert, Christopher. The Days of the French Revolution. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1980.

Schama, Simon. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

CHAPTER 16: THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

Rothenberg, Gunther E. The Napoleonic Wars. New York: Smithsonian Books, 1999.

Schom, Alan. Napoleon Bonaparte. New York: HarperCollins, 1997

Schom, Alan. One Hundred Days: Napoleon’s Road to Waterloo. New York: Atheneum, 1992.

CHAPTER 17: THE TAIPING REBELLION

Pelissier, Roger. The Awakening of China, 1793—1949. New York: G.P. Putnan’s Sons, 1963

Spence, Jonathan D. God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.

CHAPTER 18: THE U.S. CIVIL WAR

Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. New York: The Free Press, 1988

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Mitchell, Lt. Col. Joseph B. Decisive Battles of the Civil War. New York: Fawcett Books, 1955.

CHAPTER 19: WORLD WAR I

Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Hart, B.H. Liddell. The Real War: 1914—1918. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1930.

Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Kiester, Edwin, Jr. An Incomplete History of World War I. Sydney, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2007

Vaughn, Edwin Campion. Some Desperate Glory: The World War I Diary of a British Officer, 1917. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1981.

CHAPTER 20: THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR

Crankshaw, Edward. The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia’s Drift to Revolution 1825—1917. New York: Viking Press, 1976

Lincoln, W. Bruce. Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989

Trotsky, Leon. Stalin. New York: Stein & Day, 1967.

Volkogonov, Dmitri. Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary. New York: The Free Press, 1996.

CHAPTER 21: THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR

Pelissier, Roger. The Awakening of China, 1793—1949. New York: G.P. Putnan’s Sons, 1963

Spence, Jonathan D. The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895—1980. New York: The Viking Press, 1981

CHAPTER 22: WORLD WAR II

Ambrose, Stephen E. D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994

Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Penguin Book, 1989.

Toland, John. Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1982.

CHAPTER 23: THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR

Karsh, Efraim. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War, 1948. London: Osprey Publishing, 2002.

Morris, Benny. 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

CHAPTER 24: THE VIETNAM WAR

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: The Viking Press, 1983.

Langguth, A.G. Our Vietnam: The War 1954—1975. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

CHAPTER 25: THE SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR

Kakar, M. Hassan. Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979—1982. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1995.

GENERAL REFERENCE

Black, Jeremy. The Seventy Great Battles in History. London: Thames & Hudson. Ltd., 2005.

Cowley, Robert, and Geoffrey Parker. The Reader’s Companion to Military History. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1995

Cummins, Joseph. Great Rivals in History. Sydney: Pier 9, 2008.

Cummins, Joseph. History’s Greatest Hits. Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2007.

Cummins, Joseph. Turn Around and Run like Hell. Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2007.

Daniels, Patricia S., and Stephen G. Hyslop. The National Geographic Almanac of World History. Washington, D.C., 2003.

Kohn, George Childs. Dictionary of Wars, Third Edition. New York: Checkmark Books, 2007.