Romans at War - The Roman Military in the Republic and Empire (Elliott Simon)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

"Ground-breaking insights into the Roman military presented [in] a sumptuously illustrated package - this will make a glorious gift for Roman history aficionados." - Love Reading

The Roman military machine was preeminent in the ancient world, projecting power across the known world over a vast chronology, and an increasingly huge and diverse geography. One of the most powerful instruments of war in the history of conflict, it proved uniquely adept at learning from setbacks, always coming back the stronger for it. In so doing it displayed two of the most important traits associated with the world of Rome. Firstly grit, that key ability to remain steadfast and to overcome adversity even in the most challenging of circumstances, as faced for example by the Republic in the Second Punic War against Hannibal. Secondly, the ability to copy the successful technical and
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