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The Roman Army

the Greatest War Machine of the Ancient World
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unbalancedbutfair
Jun 18, 2012unbalancedbutfair rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
If you are looking for a quick snapshot of the "roman army" this isn't for you. This book is about how the roman army changed over time. I really enjoyed it. Good exposition showing how armaments and tactics changed over the hundreds of years of the roman war machine. In my previous research I heard again and again "there was change and heterogeneity in the roman army" and this book tried to show how it changed. What the army actually looked like at the various stages. Good balance of pictures, battle diagrams, exposition, use of primary sources as well as original interpretation and reasoning. It can sound slightly repetitive but I think that is so that people who are only reading the captions can still get something out of the book.