Adrian Goldsworthy Libros Populares
Adrian Goldsworthy Biografía y Hechos
Adrian Goldsworthy (nacido en 1969) es un historiador británico, especialista en historia militar del mundo clásico. Estudió en el St John's College de la Universidad de Oxford, doctorándose en 1994. Ha sido profesor en varias universidades, aunque en la actualidad se dedica fundamentalmente a escribir. Frecuentemente aparece, como experto, en documentales de History Channel relacionados con su especialidad. Libros publicados Algunos de sus libros son: The Roman Army at War 100 BC - AD 200 (OUP, 1996) Roman Warfare (Cassell, 2000) ISBN 0-304-35265-9 The Punic Wars (Cassell, 2000) ISBN 0-304-35967-X posteriormente publicado como The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC, (Cassell, 2003) ISBN 9780304366420 Fields of Battle: Cannae (Orion, 2001) ISBN 0-304-35714-6 In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Orion,2003) ISBN 0-7538-1789-6 The Complete Roman Army (Thames & Hudson, 2003) ISBN 0-500-05124-0 Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Yale University Press, 2006) ISBN 0-300-12048-6 Vindolanda (Head of Zeus, 2017) ISBN 9781784974688 Ediciones en español Goldsworthy, Adrian (2002). Las guerras púnicas. Editorial Ariel. ISBN 978-84-344-6650-0. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2005). Grandes generales del ejército romano. Campañas, estrategias y tácticas. Editorial Ariel. ISBN 978-84-344-6770-5. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2005). El ejército romano. Ediciones Akal. ISBN 978-84-460-2234-3. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2007). César: la biografía definitiva. La Esfera de los Libros. ISBN 978-84-9734-658-0. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2009). La caída del imperio romano: el ocaso de occidente. La Esfera de los Libros. ISBN 9788497348645. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2010). En el nombre de Roma: los hombres que forjaron el imperio. La Esfera de los Libros. ISBN 9788434469297. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2013). Soldados de honor. La Esfera de los Libros. ISBN 9788499706382. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2015). Octavio. La Esfera de los Libros. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2018). Vindolanda. Pàmies. ISBN 9788416970902. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2019). Hibernia. Pamies. ISBN 9788417683184 Goldsworthy, Adrian (2020). Brigantia. Los últimos druidas. Pamies. ISBN 9788417683856 Goldsworthy, Adrian (2021). El fuerte. Pámies. ISBN9788418441757 Goldsworthy, Adrian (2022). La Ciudad. Pámies. ISBN9788419301130 Enlaces externos Entrevista para Orionbooks (en inglés) Adrian Goldsworthy's website (en inglés). Descubre los libros populares de Adrian Goldsworthy. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Adrian Goldsworthy
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Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Five
Christian CameronThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures the fastpaced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.Available exclusively in eBook.
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Siege
Geraint JonesThe Roman Empire is built on the efficient brutality of its soldiers, all ready to fight and die for her. Most of them live together as brothers, but a German force is slowly worki...
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Artemis
Julian Stockwin'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' GuardianIn the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in...
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Memoirs of My Life
Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were post...
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The Civil War
Julius CaesarA military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping...
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The Baltic Prize
Julian Stockwin1808. Parted from his new bride, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain's only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden decla...
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Hannibal
David Anthony DurhamIn ancient Rome, parents used to silence misbehaving children with the utterance 'Hannibal ad portas' (Hannibal is at the door). Such was the fear and awe that Hannibal Barca insti...
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Tenacious
Julian Stockwin'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty shipoftheline' Daily ExpressThomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenac...
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The History of Alexander
Quintus Curtius Rufus & John YardleyAlexander the Great (356323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet al...
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The Barbarian
Douglas JacksonAD 406. Abandoned by friends and hounded by enemies, Roman cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor and a small band of loyal warriors know that the time has come to leave an increa...
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Amy's Honeymoon
Julia LlewellynA five star honeymoon in Rome – what more could a girl want? In Amy’s case, a husband might come in handy … but, with the cost of a cancelled wedding to mop up and no chance of a r...
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Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Three
Christian CameronThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures the fastpaced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.
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Mutiny
Julian Stockwin'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' GuardianIt is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master's mate on Achilles, a 64gun shipoftheline, ...
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Lady Of Kynachan
James Irvine RobertsonNot long after he inherited the Highland estate of Kynachan, young David Stewart was shown, in a dream, the image of his future wife. When, at a ball in Perth, he saw the beautiful...
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Inside the Kingdom
Robert LaceySaudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the ninetee...
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David Hume
Nicholas PhillipsonA giant of the eighteenthcentury Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this succinct ...
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Tom Swan and the Last Spartans
Christian CameronFollowing on from Tom Swan and the Head of St George and Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade, Tom Swan and the Last Spartans is the third instalment of the fastpaced series set in t...
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Pasha
Julian Stockwin'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty shipoftheline' Daily ExpressAn Admiralty summons to England cuts short Thomas Kydd's service in the turquoise waters of the Carib...
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Hms Crusader
A E LangsfordDeath by fire Death by ice. These were the twin threats confronting the seamen on the North Atlantic convoys: fire from the Luftwaffe's bombs, and from the torpedoes of the lurkin...
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The Hammer and the Cross
Robert FergusonFor those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. The attack on Lindisfarne was a characteristically vio...
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Scorpions in Corinth
JM AlveyThe Persian War is over and wealthy Athenians are looking to expand alliances overseas.Popular playwright Philocles and his actors are hired to take his latest play to Corinth, to ...
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The Digest of Roman Law
JustinianCodified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.
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The Odin Mission
James Holland'Sharpe for the Blitz years...The Odin Mission is a meaty, allaction yarn' Sunday Telegraph'Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics.....
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Darkest Hour
James Holland'Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics' Mail on Sunday'Sharpe for the Blitz years...a meaty, all action yarn!' Sunday Telegraph'Hol...
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The Conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar, Jane Gardner & S. HandfordBetween 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns.Caesar's narrat...
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Byzantium
Judith HerrinFor a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe’s transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined ...
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Tyger
Julian Stockwin'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' GuardianCaptain Sir Thomas Kydd's part in Britain's doomed occupation of Buenos Aires has p...
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The Closing Of The Western Mind
Charles FreemanThe conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. ...
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Hellfire
James Holland'Has all the pace of the previous three, and is bang on form' Daily Mail'Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics...Destined to be a s...
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Hadrian's Wall
Brian Dobson & David J BreezeA penetrating and lucid history of the bestknown and most spectacular monument to the Roman Empire in Britain. Taking into account new research findings about the building of the W...
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Command
Julian Stockwin'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty shipoftheline' Daily ExpressThrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ...
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Invasion
Julian Stockwin'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty shipoftheline' Daily ExpressNapoleon's forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd's ship is at the forefront ...
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The Admiral's Daughter
Julian Stockwin'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' Guardian1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France. While the Royal Navy...
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Three Victories and a Defeat
Brendan SimmsThis highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain’s extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it l...
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Conquest
Julian Stockwin'A naval tale of the first order' 5star reader reviewVictory at the Battle of Trafalgar removed the spectre of invasion and England is now free to seek conquests and colonies in t...
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Dark Age
James WildeBridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the second chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed . . .Before Camelot. Befo...
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Philip and Alexander
Adrian Goldsworthy'A thrilling read' Tom Holland 'Historywriting at its best' Barry Strauss By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient worl...
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Quarterdeck
Julian StockwinThomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now, he must sit an examination to confirm his rank or face an inglorious return ...
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The Iberian Flame
Julian Stockwin'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' Guardian1808. With the Peninsula in turmoil, Napoleon Bonaparte signs a treaty to dismember ...
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Nowhere Else On Earth
Josephine HumphreysBrought up in a mixedrace community part Scots, part Native American in the forests of North Carolina in the midnineteenth century, Rhoda is the first of her family to be able to...
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Ancient Worlds
Michael Scott'This vivid and engaging book brings to life some of the most important moments in ancient history, moments that have shaped not only the politics and culture of bygone eras, but t...
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Kublai Khan
John ManIn Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decreeKublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind th...
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To the Eastern Seas
Julian Stockwin'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' GuardianWith Bonaparte held to a stalemate in Europe, the race to empire is now resumed. Bri...
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Salt
Mark KurlanskyHomer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginnin...
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Seaflower
Julian Stockwin'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' GuardianIt is two years since Thomas Kydd was spirited away in the night to serve his countr...
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The Hawk
Peter Smalley1790 and England is on the cusp of war with Revolutionary France. The nighttime Channel is the scene of intense smuggling activity and the passage of spies from one coast to anothe...
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Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter
Christian CameronTHE BRAND NEW ADVENTURE FROM 'THE MASTER OF HISTORICAL FICTION' (SUNDAY TIMES)TOM SWAN SOLDIER, SCHOLAR, BASTARD, SPY.Tom Swan and his friends are trying to save Europe from the T...
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Warrior
John Hunt & Tam Henderson QMWarrior is the powerful true story of a British soldier's heroism during the Iraq War that reveals how he was ruthlessly sacrificed by the Establishment. Captain Tam Henderson was ...
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King of the Fields
Isaac Bashevis SingerFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and vio...
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Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part Two
Christian CameronFollowing on from Tom Swan and the Head of St George, Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade is the next instalment of the fastpaced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the...
