Ranks of Bronze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ranks of Bronze write by David Drake. This book was released on 2001-08-01. Ranks of Bronze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. They were Roman soldiers¾ and they were still alive because there were no better killers in the galaxy. The Galactics need fighters who could win battles without the aid of technology. That's why, when Rome's legions suffered disaster at Carrhae, secretive alien traders were waiting to buy them on the Persian slave market. Now, virtually immortal, the Romans fight strange enemies on stranger worlds; and though they win every battle, the spoils of victory never include freedom. If the legionaries are ever to return to Earth, it must be through the beam weapons and force screens of their ruthless alien owners. But no matter the odds, two thousand years is a long time; the Romans are coming home. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Foreign Legions
Foreign Legions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foreign Legions write by David Drake. This book was released on 2001. Foreign Legions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in the universe of "Ranks of Bronze, Foreign Legions" presents masterful new novellas by David Drake, Eric Flint, S.M. Stirling, Marl L. Van Name, and David Weber. "David Drake is now the king of military science fiction".--"Philadelphia Weekly Press".
The Excalibur Alternative
The Excalibur Alternative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Excalibur Alternative write by David Weber. This book was released on 2002. The Excalibur Alternative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This novel is based on a much shorter version published in David Drake's "Foreign Legions".
Seas of Venus
Seas of Venus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seas of Venus write by David Drake. This book was released on 2002. Seas of Venus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Earth is a dead cinder and the last of the human race struggles for survival beneath the dense clouds of Venus. Two courageous visionaries--the fighting men Brainard and Gordon--must struggle through the hellish surface jungles, but if they fail, both Venus and Mankind will die.
Men of Bronze
Men of Bronze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men of Bronze write by Donald Kagan. This book was released on 2013-06-09. Men of Bronze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major contribution to the debate over ancient Greek warfare by some of the world's leading scholars Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was the driving force behind a revolution in Greek social, political, and cultural institutions. Throughout the twentieth century scholars developed and refined this grand hoplite narrative with the help of archaeology. But over the past thirty years scholars have criticized nearly every major tenet of this orthodoxy. Indeed, the revisionists have persuaded many specialists that the evidence demands a new interpretation of the hoplite narrative and a rewriting of early Greek history. Men of Bronze gathers leading scholars to advance the current debate and bring it to a broader audience of ancient historians, classicists, archaeologists, and general readers. After explaining the historical context and significance of the hoplite question, the book assesses and pushes forward the debate over the traditional hoplite narrative and demonstrates why it is at a crucial turning point. Instead of reaching a consensus, the contributors have sharpened their differences, providing new evidence, explanations, and theories about the origin, nature, strategy, and tactics of the hoplite phalanx and its effect on Greek culture and the rise of the polis. The contributors include Paul Cartledge, Lin Foxhall, John Hale, Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Kagan, Peter Krentz, Kurt Raaflaub, Adam Schwartz, Anthony Snodgrass, Hans van Wees, and Gregory Viggiano.
