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This month Andrew Roberts publishes a book entitled

The Art of War: Great Commanders of the Ancient and Medieval
World.

It's a collection of essays on the 50 greatest commanders from
Egyptian times to the dawning of the Age of Gunpowder, written by the
top experts in each case. Here a selection of them:

Tom Holland on Cyrus the Great & Hannibal

Robin Waterfield on Themistocles & Alcibiades

Robin Lane Fox on Philip of Macedon & Alexander the Great

Adrian Goldsworthy on Scipio Africans and Julius Caesar

John Julius Norwich on Belasarius and Sultan Mehmet II

Jonathan Sumption on the Black Prince

Robert Hardy on Henry V

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on Hernan Cortes

and dozens many more.



The book is really gorgeously produced by Quercus with several hundred
illustrations and maps, and would make a great Christmas present.
Amazon.co.uk have it on at a discounted price of £15 (from £25).
There's more about the book on www.andrew-roberts.net

Next January it is going to be followed by a second volume with
another 50 leaders taking us up from the Age of Gunpowder to the
present day.

Andrew Roberts

PS If you haven't yet seen Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt,
Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West, here's a
review that appeared in The Observer yesterday:

'In a class apart is the latest book by Andrew Roberts. Masters and
Commanders. Roberts is a master of the existing sources and has
uncovered a host of new ones. This new material, and the illuminating
device of combining the views and projects of the political and
military decision-makers, gives a fresh and unusual version of the
wartime story. Roberts steers a well-judged course through the
conflicting accounts and provides wonderful pen portraits of his
talented and argumentative characters. His tone is magisterial and
definitive and Brooke and Marshall emerge from the shadows with both
their political acumen and their human foibles intact. This book is
Roberts's masterpiece, an achievement that adds lustre to his already
substantial reputation.'

Richard Gott, The Observer

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