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Alexander, Bevin. How Great Generals Win. New York: Norton, 1993. [ 1, 2 ]
Alexander, John B., Richard Groller, and Janet Morris. The Warrior's Edge. New York: Morrow, 1990. [ 1 ]
Allen, George W. None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam. Ivan R. Dee: Chicago, 2001. [ 1 ]
Armstrong, Karen. A History Of God. New York: Knopf, 1993. [ 1 ]
Ashley, Leonard. The Wonderful World of Magic and Witchcraft. New York: Dembner, 1986. [ 1 ]
Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Trans. Maxwell Staniforth. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1996. [ 1, 2 ]
Bobbitt, Philip. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators. New York: Random House, 1993. [ 1 ]
Bowman, James. Honor: A History. New York: Encounter Books, 2006. [ 1 ]
Brucker, Gene (editor). People and Communities in the Western World, Volume I. Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey, 1979. [ 1 ]
Cahill, Thomas. The Gifts of the Jews. New York: Doubleday, 1998. [ 1 ]
Cahill, Thomas. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter. Doubleday: New York, 2003. [ 1 ]
The Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press, 1923. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ]
Campbell, Joseph. Myths To Live By. New York: Penguin, 1972. [ 1, 2 ]
Campbell, Joseph. The Masks Of God: Occidental Mythology. New York: Penguin, 1976. [ 1 ]
Cantor, Norman F. Inventing the Middle Ages. New York: Morrow, 1991. [ 1 ]
Cantor, Norman F. The Civilization of the Middle Ages. New York: Harper-Collins, 1993. [ 1, 2 ]
Cavendish, Richard (editor-in-chief). Man, Myth, and Magic. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1985. [ 1 ]
Cleary, Thomas (translator and editor). Mastering the Art of War. Boston: Shambhala, 1989. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Cohen, Richard. By The Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions. New York: Modern Library, 2003. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Coles, Paul. The Ottoman Impact on Europe. London: Harcourt, Brac. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Contamine, Phillipe. War in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1986. [ 1, 2 ]
Coram, Robert. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2002. [ 1 ]
Cowley, Robert (editor). What If?. New York: Putnam, 1999. [ 1 ]
Dawson, Doyne. The Origins of Western Warfare: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Day, David. The Search For King Arthur. New York: Facts on File, 1995. [ 1 ]
Delbrück, Hans. Warfare in Antiquity. History of the Art of War, volume I. Trans. Walter: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. [ 1, 2 ]
Drews, Robert. The End of the Bronze Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. [ 1, 2 ]
Duffy, Christopher. The Military Experience in the Age of Reason. New York: Atheneum, 1988. [ 1 ]
Dunnigan, James F., and Albert A. Nofi. Victory and Deceit. New York: Morrow, 1995. [ 1 ]
Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ]
Dupuy, Trevor N. A Genius For War. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977. [ 1 ]
Finley, M. I. The World of Odysseus. New York: Viking Press, 1954. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Fletcher, Richard. The Quest for El Cid. New York: Knopf, 1990. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]
Frazer, James G. The Illustrated Golden Bough. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. [ 1 ]
French, Shannon E. Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. [ 1 ]
Gabriel, Richard A., and Karen S. Metz. From Sumer To Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
Gillette, Douglas. The Shaman's Secret: The Lost Resurrection Teachings of the Ancient Maya. New York: Bantam Books, 1997. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
Glubb, Sir John. Soldiers of Fortune: The Story of the Mamlukes. New York: Dorset, 1973. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Hallman, J. C. The Devil Is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe. New York: Random House, 2006. [ 1 ]
Hamilton-Williams, David. Waterloo: New Perspectives. Wiley & Sons: New York, 1994. [ 1, 2 ]
Hanson, Victor Davis. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: Random House, 2005. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
Heath, Ian, and Angus McBride. Byzantine Armies: 886-1118. London: Osprey, 1979.
Hildinger, Erik. Warriors of the Steppe: a Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to 1700 A.D.. New York: Sarpedon, 1997. [ 1 ]
Holland, Barbara. Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dawn. New York: Bloomsbury, 2003. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
Hyland, Ann. The Medieval Warhorse. London: Grange Books, 1994. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
James, E. O. The Nature and Function of Priesthood: A Comparative and Anthropological Study. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1955. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
Jones, Archer. The Art of War in the Western World. Chicago: University of Illinois, 1987. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Kaplan, Michael, and Ellen Kaplan. Chances Are...: Adventures in Probability. New York: Viking Books, 2006. [ 1 ]
Kaplan, Robert D. Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. New York: Random House, 2002.
Kaufman, Stephen F. The Martial Artist's Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's Classic. Boston, MA: Tuttle & Company, 1994. [ 1 ]
Keegan, John. A History of Warfare. New York: Knopf, 1993. [ 1, 2 ]
Lau, D. C., and Roger Ames. Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare. New York: Ballatine, 1996. [ 1, 2 ]
Leebaert, Derek. To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda. New York: Little, Brown, & Company, 2006. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
Lynn, John A. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2003. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
MacDowall, Simon. Late Roman Cavalryman: 236-565 AD. Hong Kong: Osprey, 1995. [ 1 ]
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1994. [ 1 ]
Mackey, Sandra. The Iranians: Persia, Islam, and the Soul of a Nation. New York: Dutton, 1996. [ 1 ]
McCartney, Eugene S. Warfare by Land and Sea: Our Debt to Greece and Rome. New York: Cooper Square, 1963. [ 1, 2 ]
McNeill, William H. Europe's Steppe Frontier: 1500-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. [ 1 ]
Moore, Robert L., and Douglas Gillette. The Magician Within. New York: Morrow, 1993. [ 1, 2 ]
Nardo, Don. The Persian Empire. World History series. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1998. [ 1 ]
Newby, P. H. Saladin In His Time. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1983. [ 1, 2 ]
Nicolle, David, and Angus McBride. Armies of the Ottoman Turks: 1300-1774. London: Osprey, 1983.
O'Connell, Robert L. Soul of the Sword. The Free Press: New York, 2002. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
Oates, Joan. Babylon. Revised Edition. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986. [ 1 ]
Pollard, Justin, and Howard Reid. The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World. New York: Viking Books, 2006. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
Prevas, John. Envy of the Gods: Alexander the Great's Ill-Fated Journey Across Asia. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004. [ 1 ]
Ratti, Oscar, and Adele Westbrook. Secrets of the Samurai: A Survey of the Martial Arts of Feudal Japan. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1973. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Riley-Smith, Jonathan (editor). The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. Oxford [Eng.]: Oxford University Press, 1995. [ 1 ]
Robinson, John J. Dungeon, Fire, and Sword. New York: Evans, 1991. [ 1 ]
Russell, Jeffrey B. A History of Witchcraft. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980. [ 1, 2 ]
Scramuzza, Vincent. The Ancient World. New York: Holt, 1958. [ 1 ]
The Secret Arts. The Enchanted World series. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1987. [ 1 ]
Seligmann, Kurt. The History of Magic and the Occult. New York: Gramercy Books, 1997. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978. [ 1 ]
Smith, Richard. Prelude to Science. New York: Scribner, 1975. [ 1, 2 ]
Strauss, Barry S., and Josiah Ober. The Anatomy of Error. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. [ 1 ]
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August. New York: MacMillan, 1962. [ 1 ]
Tuchman, Barbara W. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Knopf, 1978. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Van Creveld, Martin. Command In War. New York: Harvard University, 1985. [ 1 ]
Watson, Lyall. Supernature. Garden City, NJ: Anchor Press, 1973. [ 1 ]
Whitehouse, Ruth, and John Wilkins. The Making Of Civilization. New York: Knopf, 1986. [ 1 ]
Wilcox, Peter, and Angus McBride. Rome's Enemies 3: Parthians and Sassanid Persians. London: Osprey Books, 1986. [ 1, 2 ]
Willis, Roy G. World Mythology. New York: Holt, 1996. [ 1 ]
Wise, Terence, and G. A. Embleton. Armies of the Crusades. London: Osprey, 1978.
Wizards and Witches. The Enchanted World series. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1987. [ 1 ]
