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|  | | In Kithairon's Shadow: A Novel of Ancient Greece and the Persian War
In Kithairon's Shadow begins in the year 480 B.C., after the battle of Thermopylae in northern Greece, by following the lives of five different men who will bear witness to the momentous events to come. Asfandiar, a noble Persian and a young Theban
collaborator named Eurydamos are enlisted in Xerxes's army of conquest. Athens is sacked, forcing the Greek fleet to a confrontation off the island of Salamis. Here in these narrow waters, a stunning victory in the greatest naval battle of antiquity
gains a brief respite for the Greeks. During the following winter and spring both sides gather their forces while clandestine efforts work to undermine the tenuous alliance between Sparta and Athens. Myronides, an Athenian, Amompharetos the Spartan, and a Tegean farmer named Nikandros leave their homes and converge upon the small town of Plataea. Here the battle lines between East and West are drawn.
| |  | | Nemesis: A Novel of the Spartan Gylippos and the Battle for Sryacuse
An Athenian invasion force has brought the independent city-state of Syracuse to the verge of surrender. One Spartan will arrive and turn the tide of battle.
| |  | | Shades of Artemis: A Novel of Ancient Greece and the Spartan Brasidas
Shades of Artemis recounts the life of Brasidas, Sparta’s most audacious commander, from his upbringing in the Spartan military school called the Agoge to his induction into the ranks of the ancient world’s finest warriors. Overcoming petty jealousies and the politics of his own country, he finally rises to the rank of general and embarks on a daring mission to bring Athens to its knees and an end to the Peloponnesian War.
With the death of Pericles, the politician Kleon becomes the architect of war policy in Athens, directing the strategy against Sparta. Thucydides, the Athenian general and chronicler of the conflict, bears witness to the brutality of ancient combat, the
devastating plague that strikes his city, and the ambition of fellow Athenians that rely on war to sustain them.
In the last quarter of the fifth century BC, these three men would meet in battle on the plains of Northern Greece, and determine the course of the ancient world’s first world war.
| |  | | The Headlong God of War
September 11 - a strike force has been launched against one of Western Civilization's great centers of culture and trade. Funded by the most powerful man in the Middel East and carried out by his trusted lieutenants, this attack is intended to bring an end to western democracy...
... this is not the attack on the Twin Towers or Pentagon in the US, but the invasion of Europe by the Persian Empire in 490 BC. On a narrow plain that sweeeps down to the Bay of Marathon in Greece, citizens of the world's first democracy will make a desperate stand against thye greatest power of the ancient world. |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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