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"PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Ambush! Surprise Attack in Ancient Greek Warfare, London: Frontline Books, 2012.
William F. Friedman: A Man and His Collection, Online at the Marshall Library,
January 2010.
Rome’s Wars in Parthia: Blood in the Sand, London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2010.
Japanese edition, Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2014.
Operation Messiah: St. Paul and Roman Intelligence, with Thijs Voskuilen, London:
Vallentine Mitchell, 2008.
Spies of the Bible, London: Greenhill Books, 2007.
Polish edition: Szpiedzy wywiady i tajne służby , Warsaw: Bellona Press, 2007.
Italian edition: Spie della Bibbia, Libreria Editrice Goriziana, 2007
Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods, but Verify, London: Frank Cass,
2005.
Italian edition: Guerra segreta nell’antica Roma, Libreria Editrice Goriziana, 2008;
2nd edition 2014.
French edition: Rensiegnement et Espionnage dans la Rome Antique, Paris: Les Belles
lettres, 2009
Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography, Jefferson: North Carolina,
McFarland, 2003.
Articles
“Roman Military Intelligence in the First Century A.D.” Desperta Ferro forthcoming.
“Jesus as Security Risk: Jesus and Repression in the Roman Empire,” in War on the Rocks.com.
February 10, 2016.
“Hannibal as Spy Chief,” Leidschrift.Historisch Tijdschrift 30, 3 (2015), pp. 25-45.
“Swords, Sandals and Insurgencies: Ancient History Goes to the Movies,” Small Wars and
Insurgencies 26, 4 (August 2015), pp. 578-596.
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“A Guide to Ancient World Intelligence – From Antiquity to Rome,” The Intelligencer, 18/3
(Summer/Fall 2011), pp. 49-51.
“The Odysseus Syndrome: Ambush and Surprise in Ancient Greek Warfare,” in: European
History: Lessons for the 21st Century. Essays from the 3rd International Conference on
European History, Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos and Nicholas C.J. Pappas, Athens:
ATINER, 2007, ch. 8.
“Trajan's Parthian Adventure: With Some Modern Caveats,” in: Eunan O’Halpin, Robert
Armstrong and Jane Ohlmeyer, (eds.) Intelligence, Statecraft and International Power.
Historical Studies XXV. Papers read before the 27th Irish Conference of Historians Held
at Trinity College, Dublin, 2005, pp. 153-174.
"Ancient Intelligence," Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Golson Books,
2004.
“Spy Tales,” Bible Review (October, 2003), pp. 12-19; 41-42.
“The Sator Rebus. An Unsolved Cryptogram?” Cryptologia, 27, 3 (July, 2003), pp. 233-287.
“Slaughter in the Forest: Small Wars and Insurgencies,Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 1-38.
“Toga and Dagger: Espionage in Ancient Rome,” The Quarterly Journal of Military History,
(Autumn 2000), pp. 28-33.
“To the Ends of the Earth: Caesar, Intelligence and Ancient Britain,” International Journal of
Intelligence and Counterintelligence,15,1 (Spring 2002), pp. 77-100.
“Jesus, The Security Risk: Intelligence and Security in First Century Palestine,” Small Wars and
Insurgencies, 9, 2 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 1-37.
“Clandestine Operations and Covert Action: The Roman Imperative,” International Journal of
Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 10, 3 (Fall 1997), pp. 299-315.
“The Great Jewish War and Rome,” Proceedings of the Military and Naval History Forum, 8-9
March 1996, Lancaster, Pa.
“Clandestine Operations and Covert Action: The Ancient Imperative,” Proceedings of the
Military and Naval History Forum, 3 - 4 March 1995, Lancaster, Pa.
“Taking on Goliath: Low Intensity Conflict in the Great Jewish War,” Small Wars and
Insurgencies, 5/1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 1-28.
“Spies and Mailmen and the Royal Road to Persia,” American Intelligence Journal,
(Autumn/Winter 1992/3), pp. 37-40.
“The Spartacus Rebellion: A Roman Intelligence Failure?” International Journal of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence, 6, 1 (1993), pp. 69-84.
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“Spying in Mesopotamia: The World's Oldest Classified Documents,” Studies in Intelligence,
33,1 Spring (1989), pp. 7-12.
“L'Occhio di Roma,” Storia e Dossier, January (1989), pp. 46-49.
“A Quirk of Fate,” Intelligence Quarterly 3, 4 Spring (1988), p. 6.
“The Ill-fated Trojan Spy,” Studies in Intelligence, 31, 1 (1987), pp. 35-39. Reprinted in
American Intelligence Journal, 9, 3, Fall (1988), pp. 18-22.
“Hannibal's Spies,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 1, 3 (1987),
pp. 53-70.
“The Polygraph, Adultery and the Romans or Fluttering in Antiquity,” Foreign Intelligence
Literary Scene 5, 2 March/April (1986), p. 2.
“Hannibal's Spies,” Espionage 2, 3 (August, 1986), pp. 149-152.
“Tinker, Tailor, Caesar, Spy: Intelligence in Ancient Rome,” American Intelligence Journal
June (1986), pp. 3-5.
“Tradecraft in Ancient Greece,” Studies in Intelligence 30, 1 (1986), pp. 39-47. Revised
version with notes in International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 2, 2
(1988), pp. 189-202.
“Byzantine Counterintelligence and the Bulgarians,” Intelligence Quarterly, 1, 4 (February,
1986), p. 1.
“The Roman Secret Service,” Intelligence Quarterly 1, 2 (July, 1985), pp. 7-8.
“Toga and Dagger,” Washington Post, Op. Ed. July 16, 1985, p. A 15. Reprinted in Signal 40, 1
(September , 1985), pp. 55-57.
“Romanizzazione, Acculturazione e Resistenza: Problemi Concettuali nella Storia del Nord
Africa,” Dialoghi di Archeologia 4, 1 (1982), pp. 102-106.
Co-authored articles:
Sheldon, R. M. and Young, Thomas-Durrell, “Meditations on a Forgotten Great,” Review Essay
on B. H. Liddell Hart, Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon, with a new Foreword by J.
Enoch Powell, London: Greenhill Books/ Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1992, Military and
Naval History Forum Proceedings, (July, 1996), pp. 71-75.
Packer, James; Sarring, Kevin; and Sheldon, Rose Mary, “A New Excavation in Trajan's
Forum,” American Journal or Archaeology, 87 (Spring, 1983), pp. 165-172.
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"Three Previously Unpublished Roman Senatorial Inscriptions," Colloquio Internazionale
A.I.E.G.E.L. su Epigrafia e Ordine Senatorio, Roma 14-20 Maggio 1981, Tituli 4 (1982), pp.
599-601, 603-606, 627-628.
Latin Inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1980 contributing author, pp.
119-130.
Book Reviews
Roberto Guerra, Cohortes Alpinorum. Truppe ausiliarie dell’antica Roma. Analisi storica e
catalogo delle fonti epigrafiche, archeologiche e numismatiche, Journal of Military
History, 2013.
Christopher J. Fuhrmann, Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration and Public
Order, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Christopher Matthew, A Storm of Spears: Understanding Greek Hoplite in Action, Philadelphia:
Casemate, 2012 in The Historian 2013.
Richard A. Gabriel, “Philip II of Macedonia: Greater than Alexander,” The Historian 74,2
(2012), pp. 393-395.
Desmond Seward, Jerusalem’s Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea. Cambridge,
Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2009 Journal of Military History, 73,4 (Fall 2009), pp. 1301-1303.
P. Sabin et. al., The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, Vol. 2, Rome from the
Late Republic to the Late Empire, (Cambridge, 2008) in: Michigan War Studies Review,
2008.09.02.
Urbainczyk, Theresa, Slave Revolts in Antiquity, in: The Historian, vol. 72, 2 (June, 2010), pp.
463-464.
Woolliscroft, David and Birgitta Hoffman, The First Frontier. Rome in the North of Scotland,
Stroud: Tempus, 2006 in Journal of Military History, 71, 1 (January, 2007), pp. 210-211.
Gabriel, Richard A., The Military History of Ancient Israel, foreword by Mordechai Gichon,
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003, 334pp. Journal of Military History 69, 1 (January 2005),
pp. 197-204.
Peter Schaefer, The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. Journal of
Military History 68, 2 (April, 2004), pp. 582-583.
Peter S. Wells, The Battle That Stopped Rome, New York: W.W. Norton, 2003 in Journal of
Military History, 68.2 (2004) 582-584.
David J. Woolliscroft, Roman Military Signalling, Tempus, 2001 in Journal of Military History
67, 1 (January 2003) pp. 219-221.
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Brent D. Shaw, Spartacus and the Slave Wars. A Brief History With Documents, New York:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001 in Journal of Military History Vol. 65, 4 (October 2001), pp.
1077-1079.
Russell, Frank S., Information Gathering in Classical Greece, Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1999, 300 pp. in: International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence, 14, 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 289-293.
Raaflaub, Kurt and Rosenstein, Nathan, War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds,
Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia 3, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press 1999,
in Journal of Military History, 64, 3 (July, 2000), pp. 819-820.
Sawyer, Ralph, The Tao of Spycraft, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998, Journal of Military
History, 63, 2 (1999), pp. 432-435.
Santosuosso, Antonio, Soldiers, Citizens and the Symbols of War. From Classical Greece to
Republican Rome 500-167 B.C. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1997 in: Military and
Naval History Journal, 9 (April 1999), pp. 79-81.
Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth. Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel,
Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 401pp., in: Journal of
Military History, 62, 2 (1998), pp. 448-450.
N. J. E. Austin and N. B. Rankov, Exploratio. Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman
World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople. New York: Routledge,
1995, 292 pp, in International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 11, 1
(Spring 1998), pp. 104-114.
Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith, The Roman Army at War 100 B.C. - A.D. 200, Oxford: The
Clarendon Press 1996 311pp, in: Journal of Military History 61, 4 (October, 1997), pp.
793-795.
Richard A. Gabriel and Donald W. Boose, Jr. The Great Battles of Antiquity, Westport, Ct.:
Greenwood Press, 1994, in: Military and Naval History Forum Proceedings (March 9,
1996), pp. 80-81.
John Warry, Warfare in the Classical World, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995,
224 pp. in Military and Naval History Journal, No. 5, (March, 1997), pp. 71-73.
A.D. Lee, Information and Frontiers, Cambridge, 1993, International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence, Vol 9, 2 (Summer, 1996), pp. 241-248.
Keith Neilson & B.J.C. McKercher, Go Spy The Land, Praeger, 1992, in: Journal of Military
History, 58, 1 (1994), pp. 139-140.
André Gerolymatos, Espionage and Treason, in: Intelligence and National Security 3, 1
(January,1988), pp. 220-223."
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