Adrian Goldsworthy

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Adrian Goldsworthy is a British author specializing in Ancient Roman history, with a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He has taught at Cardiff University, King’s College London, and the University of Notre Dame’s London programme. His works include both historical fiction and non-fiction.

Adrian Goldsworthy's narrative centers on a Roman commander leading a cohort of Brigantes, many of whom are former rebels and convicts prone to mutiny. The commander must navigate the treacherous loyalties within his ranks. Concurrently, Emperor Hadrian's cousin harbors his own ambitions, adding another layer of intrigue. The story intertwines military tension with political maneuvering, setting the stage for potential betrayal and conflict.

City Of Victory

The Fort

(2021)

The City

(2022)

The Wall

(2023)

Napoleonic Wars

True Soldier Gentlemen

(2008)

Beat the Drums Slowly

(2011)

Send Me Safely Back Again

(2012)

All in Scarlet Uniform

(2013)

Run Them Ashore

(2014)

Whose Business is to Die

(2015)

Vindolanda

(2017)

The Encircling Sea

(2018)

Brigantia

(2020)

Standalone Novels

Hill 112

(2024)

Non-Fiction

The Roman Army At War

(1996)

The Punic Wars

(2000)

Caesar's Civil War

(2002)

In the Name of Rome

(2003)

Caesar

(2006)

Cannae

(2007)

The Fall of the West / How Rome Fell

(2009)

Antony and Cleopatra

(2010)

The Complete Roman Army

(2011)

The Fall of Carthage

(2012)

Caesar's Civil War 49-44 BC

(2013)

Augustus

(2014)

Pax Romana

(2016)

Hadrian's Wall

(2018)

Philip and Alexander

(2020)

Rome and Persia

(2023)

General Military

The British Home Guard Pocketbook

0(By: A.F.U. Green)

Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple

(1950)(By: Stuart Smith)

The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast of Devon in 1944

(1988)(By: Mark Rogerson,Ken Small)

Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage

(1989)(By: Rick Jolly)

Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War

(1999)(By: Thomas A. Desjardin)

Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship

(2003)(By: Angus Konstam)

Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan

(2004)(By: Martin Pegler)

Rome at War

(2005)

Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War

(2006)(By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean)

Rolling Thunder In A Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited

(2006)(By: Andrew Wiest)

FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II

(2007)(By: Gordon L. Rottman)

An Officer's Manual of the Western Front: 1914-1918

(2008)(By: Stephen Bull)

Warship 2008

(2008)(By: John Jordan)

Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II

(2008)(By: Terry Crowdy)

Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World

(2009)(By: Brian Lavery)

The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660

(2009)(By: Blair Worden)

No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II

(2009)(General Mi

Battleground Prussia

(2010)(By: Prit Buttar)

The Road to Victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

(2011)(By: Dale A. Dye,Robert J.O'Neill)

The Spitfire Pocket Manual: 1939-1945

(2011)(By: Martin Robson)

Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare

(2011)(By: Clive Cussler,James P. Delgado)

Warship 2011

(2011)(By: John Jordan)

Quick Training for War

(2011)(By: Robert Baden-Powell,Martin Robson)

Panther: Germany's quest for combat dominance

(2012)(By: Michael; Green Gladys Green)

The Para Fitness Guide

(2012)(By: Sam McGrath)

The Rice Paddy Navy:U.S. Sailors Undercover in China

(2012)(By: Linda Kush)

The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945

(2012)(By: Christopher Westhorp)

Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq

(2012)(By: Lou DiMarco)

America's Elite: U.S. Special Forces From The American Revolution To The Present Day

(2014)(By: Chris McNab)

American Tanks & AFVs of World War II

(2014)(By: Michael Green)

Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne

(2014)(By: Ian Senior)

No Victory in Valhalla: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Bastogne to Berchtesgaden

(2014)(By: Ian Gardner)

The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945

(2014)(By: Christopher Westhorp)

Company of Heroes: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam

(2015)(By: Eric Poole)

Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915

(2015)(By: Prit Buttar)

The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume I: 1939–42

(2015)(By: ThomasAnderson)

Finland at War: the Winter War 1939-40

(2015)(By: Vesa Nenye)

American Knights: The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion

(2015)(By: Victor Failmezger)

Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45

(2016)(By: Chris Birks,Vesa Nenye,Peter Munter,Toni Wirtanen)

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

(2016)(By: Peter McPhee)

Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass

(2016)(By: Trevor Absolon)

Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries

(2016)(By: Jeremy Black)

We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41

(2016)(By: Robert Forczyk)

Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18

(2016)(By: Dennis E. Showalter)

With Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon

(2017)(By: Gene Fax)

Loco Spotter’s Guide

(2017)(By: Stuart Black)

The Long Range Desert Group in World War II

(2017)(By: Gavin Mortimer)

Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin

(2017)(By: Mungo Melvin)

Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II

(2017)(By: Michael G. Walling)

Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants

(2017)(By: Stephen Sewell,James Kinnear)

Shadow over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45

(2017)(By: Jim Laurier,Robert Forsyth)

Shot Down and in the Drink: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Saved from the Sea in WWII

(2017)(By: Graham Pitchfork)

The Splintered Empires

(2017)(By: Prit Buttar)

Panther

(2017)(By: ThomasAnderson)

The Second World Wars

(2017)(By: Victor Davis Hanson)

Concorde Pocket Manual

(2017)(By: Richard Johnstone-Bryden)

Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944

(2017)(By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)

Case Red: The Collapse of France

(2017)(By: Robert Forczyk)

Legion versus Phalanx

(2018)(By: Myke Cole)

The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All Marks in Service 1941–1945

(2018)(By: Martin Robson)

Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II

(2018)(By: Jeffrey R. Cox)

Cutty Sark Pocket Manual

(2018)(By: Arron Hewett,Louise MacFarlane)

Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern

(2018)(By: Liesl Bradner,PhilStern)

Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

(2018)(By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)

HMS Belfast Pocket Manual

(2018)(By: John Blake)

The German Soldier's Pocket Manual: 1914–18

(2018)(By: Stephen Bull)

Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage

(2018)(By: Martin Robson)

Valley Of The Shadow: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu

(2018)(By: Kevin M. Boylan,Luc Olivier)

Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On

(2018)(By: Leigh Neville)

Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence

(2018)(By: Jeremy Black,National Archives)

The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939–45

(2018)(By: Christian Jennings)

Charlie Company Journeys Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans

(2018)(By: Andrew Wiest)

Run to the Sound of the Guns: The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq

(2018)(By: Nicholas Moore,Mir Bahmanyar)

Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank

(2018)(By: Stephen Sewell,James Kinnear,Andrey Aksenov)

Hitler's Death

(2019)(By: Luke Daly-Groves)

The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present

(2019)(By: Chris McNab,Mark Galeotti)

The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers

(2019)(By: Angus Konstam)

How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor's Guide

(2019)(By: National Archives)

An Englishman Abroad: SOE Agent Dick Mallaby’s Italian Missions, 1943–45

(2019)(By: Gianluca Barneschi)

War Bows: Longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese yumi

(2019)(By: Mike Loades)

Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS

(2019)(By: Alastair MacKenzie)

Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions

(2019)(By: ThomasAnderson)

Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea

(2019)(By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)

World War II Battle by Battle

(2019)(By: Nikolai Bogdanovic)

Doctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands

(2019)(By: Rick Jolly)

Warship 2019

(2019)(By: John Jordan)

Scapa 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet

(2019)(By: Innes McCartney)

Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway

(2019)(By: David Rigby)

German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a U-boat

(2019)(By: Aaron Stephan Hamilton)

Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank

(2019)(By: Stephen Sewell,James Kinnear,Andrey Aksenov)

The Hurricane Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1939–45

(2019)(By: Martin Robson)

On a Knife's Edge

(2019)(By: Prit Buttar)

Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939

(2019)(By: Robert Forczyk)

Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II

(2019)(By: Ian Gardner)

The Persian War: In Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices

(2019)(By: William Shepherd)

Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943

(2020)(By: Jeffrey R. Cox)

Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed Through Letters and Documents from the Time

(2020)(By: National Archives)

Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness

(2020)(By: Sam McGrath)

Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II

(2020)(By: Chris McNab)

The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy

(2020)(By: Richard Endsor)

Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18

(2020)(By: Rob Johnson)

The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944

(2020)(By: Anthony Tucker-Jones)

Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44

(2020)(By: Victor Failmezger)

I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

(2020)(By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)

The Reckoning

(2020)(By: Prit Buttar)

Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge

(2020)(By: Angus Konstam)

Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14

(2020)(By: Ben Barry)

The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader?

(2021)(By: Kieran Whitworth)

Warship 2021

(2021)(By: John Jordan)

Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank

(2021)(By: Stephen Sewell,James Kinnear,Andrey Aksenov)

Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield

(2021)(By: Innes McCartney)

Smithsonian History of Warfare

War in the Air 1914-45

(1999)(By: Williamson Murray)

The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century

(1999)(By: Brian Holden Reid)

Warfare in the Eighteenth Century

(1999)(By: Jeremy Black)

The Second World War in Europe

(1999)(By: Charles Messenger)

The Second World War in the East

(2000)(By: H.P. Willmott)

The Art Of War: War And Military Thought

(2000)(By: Martin van Creveld)

War at Sea in the Age of Sail

(2000)(By: Andrew D. Lambert)

War at Sea in the Ironclad Age

(2000)(By: Richard Hill)

History of Warfare: The Renaissance at War

(2001)(By: John Keegan,Thomas F. Arnold)

Wars of National Liberation

(2001)(By: Daniel Moran)

The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks

(2002)(By: Victor Davis Hanson)

Roman Warfare

(2005)

Essential Histories

The Hundred Years’ War: 1337–1453

(1992)(By: Anne Curry)

The French Revolutionary Wars

(2001)(By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)

The Korean War: 1950–53

(2001)(By: Carter Malkasian)

The Vietnam War 1956–1975

(2002)(By: Andrew Wiest)

War in Japan 1467–1615

(2002)(By: Stephen Turnbull)

Caesar's Civil War

(2002)

The Franco-Prussian War: 1870–71

(2003)(By: Stephen Badsey)

The Ottoman Empire 1326–1699

(2003)(By: Stephen Turnbull)

The Collapse of Yugoslavia: 1991–99

(2004)(By: Alastair Finlan)

The Russian Civil War 1918–22

(2008)(By: David Bullock)

The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750

(2009)(By: David Nicolle)

The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969–2007

(2011)(By: Aaron Edwards)

The Northern Ireland Troubles: 1969–2007

(2011)(By: Aaron Edwards)

The Jacobite Rebellion: 1745–46

(2011)(By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)

The Soviet-Afghan War 1979-89

(2012)(By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)

The Second War of Italian Unification 1859–61

(2012)(By: Frederick C. Schneid)

The Rise of Imperial Rome AD 14–193

(2013)(By: Duncan B. Campbell)

The Wars of Spanish American Independence 1809–29

(2013)(By: John Fletcher)

The War of the Roses: 1455-1485

(2014)(By: Michael Hicks)

Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009

(2014)(By: Mark Galeotti)

The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453

(2023)(By: Anne Curry)

The American Revolution: 1774–83

(2023)(By: Daniel Marston)

The Soviet–Afghan War: 1979–89

(2024)(By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)

Anthologies

Great Commanders of the Ancient World, 1479BC - 453AD

(2008)

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