Roman Warfare (CASSELL'S HISTORY OF WARFARE)

by Adrian Goldsworthy (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $4.03

  When Alexander the Great carved out his empire, Rome was just one of many city states on the Italian peninsula. Yet it conquered its neighbours one-by-one, defeated Carthage and eventually overwhelmed the Greek successor states too. As its republican institutions gave way to Imperial rule by Augustus and his heirs, the Roman Empire extended from the French Atlantic coast to Syria. Later conquests included Britain and much of modern Romania. How did Rome overcome opponent after opponent? What was the grand strategy of the Roman Empire? Adrian Goldsworthy reveals why Rome developed the most professional fighting force of the ancient world and what it was like to be a soldier in the legions.

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  Hardcover
  2000

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  Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory, with its uncompromising and total destruction of enemies, resulting in the creation of the Empire. This is a history of Roman warfare from 753 BC, the traditional date of the foundation of Rome, to the decline and fall of the Empire.