Research

This is a list of research material I’ve used in order to write the „Emperor’s Men“-novels – aside from all the things I learned from very knowledgeable websites. If you are interested in topics mentioned in my novels beyond the fiction, some of these books might be a good start (only a fraction is in German, therefore the list should also appeal to an international audience).

Akerman, Paul: Encyclopedia of British Submarines 1901-1955, Penzance 2002

Arnold, Caroline: City of the Gods. Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan, New York 1994

Bechert, Tilmann: Die Provinzen des Römischen Reiches. Einführung und Überblick, Mainz 1999

Brandt, Hartwin: Das Ende der Antike. Geschichte des spätrömischen Reiches, München 2001

Brocke, Christoph vom: Thessaloniki – Stadt des Kassander und Gemeinde des Paulus, Tübingen 2001

Campbell, Duncan B.: Roman Legionary Fortresses, 27 BC – AD 378, Oxford 2006

Elton, Hugh: Warfare in Roman Europe AD 350-425, Oxford 1997

Evans, David C./ Peattie, Mark R.: Kaigun. Strategy, Tactics and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887-1941, Annapolis 1997

Fields, Nick: The Hun. Scourge of God AD 375-565, Oxford 2006

Glassman, Steve/ Anaya, Armando: Cities of the Maya in Seven Epochs, 1250 B.C. to A.D. 1903, Jefferson/London 2011

Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus: The Hippodrome of Constantinople and its still existing monuments, London 1889

Grube, Nikolai (Hrsg.): Maya. Gottkönige im Regenwald, Potsdam 2007

ders./ Martin, Simon: Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, London 2000

Hara, Tameichi: Japanese Destroyer Captain, New York 1961

Harries, Meirion & Susie: Soldiers of the Sun. The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army, New York 1991

Headrick, Annabeth: The Teotihuacan Trinity. The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City, Austin 2007

Holzhauer, Eduard: Das Volk in Waffen. Die Flotte, Dachau o. J. (irgendwann kurz vor dem I. Weltkrieg)

Keene, Thomas: Emperor of Japan. Meiji and his world, 1852-1912, New York 2002

Klein, Richard: Symmachus, Darmstadt 1971

Koop, Gerhard/ Mulitze, Erich: Die Marine in Wilhelmshaven, Bonn 1999

ders./ Schmolke, Klaus-Peter: Kleine Kreuzer 1903-1918, Bonn 2004

Lanitzki, Günter: Die Flotte des Kaisers, Berlin 2001

Matthews, John: Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, AD 364-425, Oxford 1975

MacDowall, Simon: Late Roman Infantryman, AD 236-565, Oxford 1994

ders.: Late Roman Cavalryman, AD 236-565, Oxford 1995

Martin, Peter: The Chrysanthemum Throne. A History of the Emperors of Japan, Sutton Publishing 1997

McKillop, Heather: The Ancient Maya. New Perspectives, Denver/Oxford 2004

Montgomery, John: Tikal. An illustrated history of he ancient Maya capital, New York 2001

Montgomery, John: Dictionary of Maya hieroglyphs, New York 2006

Nicolle, David: Attila and the Nomad Hordes, Oxford 1990

Pohl, Walter: Die Völkerwanderung, Stuttgart 2002

Scheerer, Thomas: Die Marineoffiziere der Kaiserlichen Marine, Bochum 2002

Seagrave, Sterling & Peggy: The Yamato Dynasty. The Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family, London 1999

Starr, Chester G.: The Roman Imperial Navy, 31 B.C.-A.D. 324, Third Edition, Chicago 1941

Stuart, David & George: Palenque. Eternal City of the Maya, London 2008

Sumner, Graham: Roman Military Clothing (2), AD 200-400, Oxford 2003

Warry, John: Warfare in the Classical World, Oklahoma 2004

Williams, Stephen/ Friell, Gerard: Theodosius. The Empire at Bay, New Haven 1994