Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome Hardcover - 2002
by Dando-Collins, Stephen
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- Title Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
- Author Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
- Date 2002
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0471095702
- ISBN 9780471095705 / 0471095702
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.46 x 6.48 x 1.06 in (24.03 x 16.46 x 2.69 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Rome - History, Caesar, Julius
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001046818
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.009
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Based on the author's thirty years of painstaking research into the Roman military, using sources ranging from classical texts to tombstone inscriptions, this unprecedented regimental history paints an uncommonly vivid portrait of daily life in a Roman legion as it follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. It was here that ambitious Romans built reputations through conquest, raw recruits became hardened foot soldiers, and the Tenth Legion became a killing machine-marching, digging, charging, ramming down gates, scaling battlements, storming through towns and villages, and slaughtering anyone who stood in their way.
Throughout this harrowing tale, Dando-Collins reveals previously unknown details about Roman military practices, Caesar's conduct as a commander and his relationships with officers and legionaries, and the daily routine and discipline of a Roman legion-from the legion buddy system to the banks legions operated for their soldiers, from Rome's version of the U.S. Pentagon to new information about the legion recruiting system. We learn what a legionary had for breakfast, find out about his training, weapons, clothes, and pastimes, and discover the brutal discipline conscripts endured.
From penetrating insights into the mind of history's greatest general to a grunt's-eye view of the gruesome realities of war in the Classical Age, this unique and riveting account sets a new standard of excellence and detail to which all authors of history will now aspire.
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- Choice, 10/01/2002, Page 335