The Punic Wars from the Carthaginian perspective reveal a struggle for survival against an emerging Roman power. From the ...

Scipio Africanus’ triumph and tragedy was to have been, as Dexter Hoyos puts it, “the greatest general in Roman history,” renowned for never having lost in battle. Invincibility brought Scipio (ca.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy might not actually be able to beat the US Navy in the Indo-Pacific. But if it looks like it ...

This dramatic clash of champions has been narrated many times, most memorably by Polybius and Livy. Nevertheless, the author shapes his biographical contrast into a gripping interwoven chronicle that ...

Control of the Mediterranean has been one of the most important triggering factors of the constant conflicts that marked the ...

While the mayors of the cities did sign a peace treaty in 1985, it was a symbolic gesture. In reality, the wars between the two ancient civilizations ended more than 2,000 years prior when Rome ...

Before he became the first U.S. president, George Washington helped ignite a global war. The French and Indian War saw empires battling for supremacy in the Americas, with Native nations caught in ...

Set in the Oxfordshire village of Ramsden in 1916, The Choral inhabits a world where the war is distant – yet its shadow lies ...

There are quite a few classic epic movies set during World War I, including Doctor Zhivago, All Quiet on the Western Front, ...

Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “The History of the Peloponnesian War” offers clarity but little ...