Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, from northern Greece to modern Pakistan, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time and building a new one in their place. He led from the front and was often wounded. He claimed to be the son of a god, but he was actually the son of Philip II. In Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors, classical historian Adrian Goldsworthy argues that without...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall. Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts, who inhabited...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
An in-depth examination of the Roman army--including the early imperial army, the citizen's militia of the Republic, and the later army of the empire--covering its origins, structure, equipment, tactics, sieges, hand-to-hand combat, and third- and fourth-century problems, as well as all aspects of a soldier's daily life.
