The companion guide to the Greek islands

Travel

Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby

Asia

Collins

St. Paul's evangelical journeys through the Mediterranean world of the first century. Photo Illustrated.

Paul the Traveller

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

Macmillan Publishing Co.

The whole of the East is on the move. Day after day, armies of men tramp the dusty roads of Asia Minor...Persians with shields and stabbing swords, Arabs on camels, mountain men from the Caucasus, Libyan charioteers, horsemen from central Iran. 
Over this vast projection of imperial force stands the Emperor Xerxes, ringed round by his immaculate royal guard. The year is 480 B.C., and Xerxes has given the order to invade Europe. 
"This account is a memorial to those ancient Greeks who, so many centuries ago, ensured that their patterns of freedom and individual liberty should survive in the West." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

The battle for the West: Thermopylae

History

Europe

McGraw=Hill

Horatio Nelson, son of a clergyman, is the most celebrated admiral in British history. He entered the navy at age 12, made captain by 20. 
British policy was to contain the dominant European power which during Nelson's lifetime, was Napoleon's France. The two nations hated well. 
Providence sailed with Nelson at Trafalgar, off the coast of Spain. "England expects every man will do his duty." His greatly outnumbered forces decimated a combined French and Spanish fleet. The victory cost Nelson his life, but made him immortal. 
"A vivid portrait of Nelson...highly entertaining and accurate." (The London Times)

Nelson: The Essential Hero

Harcourt

Cleopatra

Examines the life and character of the Egyptian queen, providing insights into the splendors of the Ptolemaic dynasty

Since ships first set sail in the Mediterranean, The Rock has been the gate of Fortress Europe. In ancient times, it was known as one of the Pillars of Hercules, and a glance at its formidable mass suggests that it may well have been created by the gods. Sought after by every nation with territorial ambitions in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Gibraltar was possessed by the Arabs, the Spanish, and ultimately the British, who captured it in the early 1700s and held onto it in a siege of more than three years late in the eighteenth century. The fact that that was one of more than a dozen sieges exemplifies Gibraltar’s quintessential value as a prize and the desperation of governments to fly their flag above its forbidding ramparts. Bradford uses his matchless skill and knowledge to take the reader through the history of this great and unique fortress. From its geological creation to its two-thousand-year influence on politics and war, he crafts the compelling tale of how these few square miles played a major part in history.

Gibraltar: the history of a fortress

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

The story of the Mary Rose

Hamish Hamilton

Julius Caesar: The Pursuit Of Power

Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power

Julius Caesar: The pursuit of power

Ancient Civilizations

H.Hamilton

Physical description; 368p.,[8]p. of plates : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 25cm. Notes; Includes index. Subject; Nelson, Horatio Nelson Viscount 1758-1805.

Military

Macmillan

In this definitive biography, Ernle Bradford has brilliantly recreated Barbarossa’s remarkable life alongside a vivid portrayal of the Ottoman and Mediterranean worlds at this thrilling moment in history. Admiral, naval hero, pirate, warrior and empire-builder, Kheir ed-Din or Barbarossa, as he was known in the West, was a legendary figure. Born on Lesbos in Greece he rose to become High Admiral of the Ottoman Navy, Sultan of Algiers and friend and advisor to Suleiman the Magnificent. His life dominated the history of the Mediterranean in the 16th century. From the moment that he and his brother, Aruj, established themselves on the North African coast, the pattern of life and trade in the Mediterranean changed forever and for nearly 300 years after it was affected by the activities of raiders from what came to be called the Barbary Coast. His achievements in reorganizing the Ottoman Navy and his command of it helped the expansion of the Turkish Empire that threatened all of Europe.

The Sultan's admiral: the life of Barbarossa

Middle East

Hodder&Stoughton

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