Posts: 53
Threads: 9
Joined: Sep 2007
Reputation:
0
First class readable author. No matter what you write or how deep your expertise, it will always come under criticism. However, as one gets more experienced and knowledgeable about aspects of the period, then his level of authorship is bound not to fully satisfy the hunger! We are then into specialist (expensive tomes!) publications. However, Goldsworthy will never let the side down!
Guy
Quintus
AKA Guido Aston
[size=100:2nyk19du]The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. [/size]
Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
Posts: 329
Threads: 22
Joined: Jun 2007
Reputation:
2
Quote:First class readable author. No matter what you write or how deep your expertise, it will always come under criticism. However, as one gets more experienced and knowledgeable about aspects of the period, then his level of authorship is bound not to fully satisfy the hunger! We are then into specialist (expensive tomes!) publications. However, Goldsworthy will never let the side down!
Guy
I completely agree!!
the majority of the people who buy books on Rome do not want the sort of depth that people on this forum want!! 8)
Ian (Sonic) Hughes
"I have described nothing but what I saw myself, or learned from others" - Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
"I have just jazzed mine up a little" - Spike Milligan, World War II
Posts: 15
Threads: 2
Joined: Sep 2007
Reputation:
0
I have both "The Complete Roman Army," as well as "In the Name of Rome." My Mum and Dad sent both of them to me when I was in Iraq (2004-2005).
I used Goldsworthy heavily when researching for my own books. One reason why I really liked "In the Name of Rome" is because it is one of the only books that details the campaigns of Germanicus Caesar, which are the focal point of my first book, "Soldier of Rome: The Legionary."
I know some said they didn't care for the lack of pictorial detail in "The Complete Roman Army," though for me it was about as detailed as one is going to find in a single volume. Of huge help to me was the diagrams depicting legionary formations, as well as explanations regarding the rank structure. Could it have been better? Sure, but then again what book is 100% perfect? In the end, I think Goldsworthy is one of the more diligent scholars that may add his own conjecture in places, but he is always quick to point out what is speculation verses what is fact.
Posts: 254
Threads: 12
Joined: Dec 2006
Reputation:
0
I have "Cannae" and "The Punic Wars". I like Goldworthy's style, the kind of information he believed to be important (you have always to choose) and not the last his English which is a pleasure to read by a non-native speaker.
Wolfgang Zeiler
Posts: 289
Threads: 11
Joined: Jul 2007
Reputation:
0
its to the point
"The Kaiser knows the Munsters,
by the Shamrock on their caps,
And the famous Bengal Tiger, ever ready for a scrap,
And all his big battalions, Prussian Guards and grenadiers,
Fear to face the flashing bayonets of the Munster Fusiliers."
Go Bua
