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Caesar - The Life of a Colossus by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle, captured and held to ransom by pirates, and almost bankrupted himself by staging games for the masses. As a pol ...Show more
The Fall of the West : The Death of the Roman Superpower by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
$79.00 NZD
Category: History
The Fall of the Roman Empire has been a best-selling subject since the 18th century. Since then over 200 discrete reasons have been advanced for the collapse of the western half of the Roman empire. Until very recently, the academic view downplayed the death and destruction, to spin a positive story of ...Show more
The Fall of the West: The Death of the Roman Superpower by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Secondhand. A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The Fall of the Roman Empire has been a best-selling subject since the 18th century. Since then, over 200 very diverse reasons have been advocated for the collapse of the western half of the Roman Empire. Until very recently ...Show more
True Soldier Gentlemen by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The year is 1808, and Hamish Williams is a 'gentlemen volunteer' in the 106th regiment of foot, a man serving with the ranks but living with the officers, and uncomfortable in both worlds: looked down on by those with the money or influence to buy their rank, and distrusted by the common soldiers who kn ...Show more
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