Rooman valtakunnalla oli useita legendaarisia kenraaleita, joiden nerokkaiden sotastrategioiden ansiosta Rooman onnistui laajentaa valtapiiriään: Scipio, Caesar, Pompei, Titus... Tämä kirja kertoo kuinka he valloittivat ja pitivät hallussaan alueita valtakunnalle, joka hakee koossa vertaistaan [...]

This detailed examination of the way in which the Roman army operated during a war and how it fought a battle breaks away from existing studies, which mostly concentrate on the army in peacetime, and attempts to understand the army as an institution whose ultimate purpose was to wage war. Adrian Gol[...]

The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching conse[...]

From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle, captured and held to ransom by pirates, and almost bankrupted himself by staging games for the masses. As a[...]