What books would you like published?

[sonic]

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

It's a very good read throughout, but is there an individual in there that you would like to see more about? lol:

I think my biggest difficulty is that there are quite a few biographies that I would like to write, but I am looking for advice on a) how many of you would buy them, and b) if there is enough interest to make it commercially viable to publish any except for the big names like Caesar and Alexander.

As a student, I longed for books about the 'lesser known' but still important generals, such as those already mentioned in this thread, and now I want to write them!

At the moment, Scipio Africanus, Epaminondas and Sertorius sound interesting, and I'm currently looking into them. How many of you would buy them?? :?

To all those that have responded, many thanks. 8)

To the rest; are there any more ideas out there or is that about it??

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Ian (Sonic) Hughes