Works Cited

Here are all the works cited on this web site. Each is followed by hyperlinks to the web page(s) citing it.

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Alexander, Bevin. How Great Generals Win. New York: Norton, 1993. [ 1, 2 ]

Alexander, Caroline. The War That Killed Achilles. New York: Viking, 2009, ISBN 9780670021123. [ 1, 2, 3 ]

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. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. [ 1 ]

Armstrong, Karen. A History Of God. New York: Knopf, 1993. [ 1 ]

Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. New York: Knopf, 2006. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

Ashley, Leonard. The Wonderful World of Magic and Witchcraft. New York: Dembner, 1986. [ 1 ]

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Trans. Maxwell Staniforth. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1996. [ 1, 2, 3 ]

Barker, Juliet. Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England. New York: Little, Brown, & Company, 2005, ISBN 0316015032. [ 1, 2 ]

Bobbitt, Philip. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History. New York: 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 ]

Bradford, Alfred S. With Arrow, Sword, and Spear: A History of Warfare in the Ancient World. New York: Fall River Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0760792575. [ 1, 2 ]

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. New York: Doubleday, 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, 1968. [ 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, & 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 ]

DiMarco, Louis A. War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider. Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2008, ISBN 978-1594160349. [ 1 ]

Drews, Robert. The End of the Bronze Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, ISBN 0691048118. [ 1, 2, 3 ]

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 ]

Farris, William Wayne. Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500-1300. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, ISBN 067438704X. [ 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, ISBN 0880292474. [ 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. New York: Wiley & Sons, 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 ]

Hildinger, Erik. Warriors of the Steppe: a Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to 1700 A.D.. New York: Sarpedon, 1997. [ 1, 2 ]

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 ]

Hyde, Lewis. Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0374279284. [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

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, 4 ]

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 ]

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 Books, 1995. [ 1 ]

Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. New York: Barnes & 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 & Noble, 1983. [ 1, 2 ]

O’Connell, Robert L. Soul of the Sword. New York: The Free Press, 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, 5, 6 ]

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, 2 ]

The Secret Arts. The Enchanted World series. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1987. [ 1, 2 ]

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 ]

Starhawk. The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, 10th Anniversary Edition. New York: Harper-Collins, 1989, ISBN 0062508148. [ 1 ]

Stephenson, Michael (editor). Battlegrounds: Geography and the History of Warfare. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2003, ISBN 0792233743. [ 1 ]

Strauss, Barry S., and Josiah Ober. The Anatomy of Error. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990. [ 1 ]

Strauss, Barry. The Trojan War: A New History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006, ISBN 9780743264426. [ 1, 2, 3 ]

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 ]

Wizards and Witches. The Enchanted World series. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1987. [ 1 ]

Wright, Alex. Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2007. [ 1, 2, 3 ]

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