Book recommendation thread

Check out Audible's free audiobook trials. I think if you use www.audible.com/rome then you get 2 credits

Then buy yourself "Alexander and the Macedonian Empire", a lecture series by the teaching company that's top notch.

If not that, get the Landmark Arrian

>>1564221
>buy yourself "Alexander and the Macedonian Empire", a lecture series by the teaching company that's top notch.I concur but you don't have to buy these lectures.
>https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/10375085/+The+Great+Courses+-+The+Teaching+Company+Megapack+280+Courses

This sort of knowledge should be free, don't feel bad for torrenting it.

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Anything on the Soissons?

I'd also like to learn a bit about Persia before and during the Achaemenids.

Do Peter Green or Robin Lane Fox also talk about Phillip? If not, are there any good books on him as well?

>>1564166
>a good book about Alexander the Great?

Arrian - Anabasis Alexandris

By far the best and most authentic book you can find.

I don't have much to offer, but Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts is superb.

Does anyone know if the books that Napoleon himself wrote are worth a look?

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>>1564166

If you have never read anything about Alexander I would firstly recommend either Arrian or Plutarch.

For current scholarship, Peter Green's book is in my opinion the best of the modern secondary sources.

I am not sure which Alexander you would want to learn about i.e. the ruthless conqueror (A.B. Bosworth) or the idolized champion (W.W. Tarn) but I believe that Peter Green definitely walks in between the two extremes brilliantly.

If you would like to dive further in; here is a list for your perusal:

http://www.pothos.org/content/index.php?page=top-10-books

Is there a general /his/ recommended reading list?

>>1564242
Fuck yes

>>1564166

J.F.C Fuller
The Generalship of Alexander the Great