The wars of the Maccabees : the jewish struggle for freedom, 167-37BC - Grainger, John D. 1939- (Barnsley, UK : Pen and Sword, 2012)
The Dispute -- Terrorism and Guerrilla War -- Victories -- The Beginnings of Imperialism -- Defeat -- Achieving Independence -- The Defence of Independence -- Early Conquests -- The Samarian War -- Internal Upheavals and the Ptolemaic War -- Gadora and Gaza -- War in the East -- The First Civil War -- The Second Eastern War -- A War for Damascus -- The Second Civil War -- The First Roman War -- The Second Roman War -- The Parthian War - and Herod -- Conclusion: a Belligerent Dynasty.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Maccabees; Palestine -- history -- to 70 A.D.