Book recommendations? / Vests /

[dumbledore11214]

> Goddlefrood:

> 
> (ii) Salamis by Barry Strauss. All you ever wanted to know, 
> and perhaps a lot you didn't want to know, about the Battle 
> of Salamis, its forerunning and aftermath.

Alla:

I have only read Trojan war and liked it fine, but will definitely 
put Salamis on my reading list. Boy it is getting longer and longer :)

 
> (iv) My tendecy is towards ancient authors, so I have also read 
> or reread Appian, Arrian, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch and 
> other of the usual suspects, all of which I would recommend.
> 
>
Alla:

Oh yeah, as our history professor used to say, go to the sources, 
just go to the sources :)