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Simon Elliott is an historian and archaeologist completing a PhD in Archaeology at the University of Kent, where he is studying the military presence in Britain during the Roman occupation. His first book on the theme of the Classis Britannica Roman Navy in Britain was published in 2016. Simon is visa mer an active field archaeologist and is the co-Director of a Roman villa excavation. He also gives frequent lectures and presentations on themes based on his research. visa färre

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Roman Conquests: Britain (2021) 10 exemplar

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In this rather short book author gives overview of military development from the period of Old Testament - area from Egypt and Syria to Iran, encompassing Zargoz Mountains and Mediterranean.

As can be expected this is a daunting task - it is not a small task to try put all ancient people from this huge piece of Earth surface and organize them chronologically, give short description of the civilization and move on to military aspects and the way they fought other nations in the area.

As such this work would be 5 stars - entry level book but with sufficient information that should make every military historian fully aware of the various nations and people that roamed this eternal conflict zone.

Two things were problematic for me in this book: (a) following latest archeological findings it was not just invasions from Sea Peoples that doomed this area cca 1200 BC. It was a combination of multiple factors (including volcanoes and other forces of nature). What irritated me a bit was constant short-hand sentence with constant mention of ecological disaster - this makes me think about warming of the poles while it was more related to natural disasters that obliterated areas nearer to the seas (volcanoes and tsunamis) and localized climate change (and to be honest overuse of land that led to loss of fertile land) - so nothing dramatic but serious thing accumulating over years coupled with usual move of peoples from the steppe (always someone chasing someone) that caused a lot of issues (just imagine migration of people from this eternal battle zone like it happened in last 5-6 years, and I think history-repeating comes naturally to one's mind); (b) lack of maps and illustrations. While we do have some war-gaming figurines instead it looks like a placeholder, not exactly serious illustrations.

And because of this I give 4 stars. For everything else this is a fantastic entry book into a truly fantastic period in history.

Highly recommended.
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Zare | Jan 23, 2024 |
Not a clear read it desperately needs maps as a great deal oftentimes is trying to describe geographical layout that would be better off drawn. He basically goes through possible hypotheses as to what happened to the Ninth legion before concluding the commonly held theory that it was destroyed around 120 AD is right.
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Davidmullen | Dec 20, 2023 |

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½ 3.6
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ISBN
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