What books would you like published?

[Roy]

As a budding writer, interested in focusing upon individual commanders in a 'biographical' format, which individuals would you like to see written about? Remember that we are looking at individuals whose stories could run to 70,000 words or more, so people such as Corbulo would be unlikely to feature, since there isn't enough known about them.

I was thinking possibly about Scipio Africanus, the man who beat Hannibal, as there doesn't seem to have been much written about him recently, but does anybody out there have any more ideas?

I don't mind how far back we go in History, or how far forward, at least until the 'reconquest' of Justinian/Belisarius. What I am thinking of is the people whose stories deserve to be told, but not the 'Big' names, such as Caesar, Hannibal etc., as they already have lots of books written about them.

Any ideas?

Ian (Sonic) Hughes

Have a look at In the Name of Rome: The Men who Won the Roman Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy.
About 500 pages, about Fabius, Marcellus, Scipio Africanus, Aemilius Paullus, Scipio Aemilianus, Gaius Marius, Sertorius, Pompey, Caesar, Germanicus, Corbulo, Titus, Trajan, Julian and Belisarius.

It's a very good read so far