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The Battle That Stopped Rome
Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the
Edition New ed
Wells, Peter S.
Paperback
Someone who has read this book? I'm planning to buy this one.
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Geert S. (Sol Invicto Comiti)
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Thx for your reply.
I will erase this book of my wish list.
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Geert S. (Sol Invicto Comiti)
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I now see that you live in Belgium; in all modesty, ahem, my own book is not bad on the subject - I have been told. It is called De randen van de aarde. De Romeinen tussen Schelde en Eems (2000). It is no longer for sale but if you send me a mail-address, I can send you the text file.
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I have send you an pm with my mail adress.
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I've not received it; try ADSL294196 apenstaart TISCALI punt NL. Dank!
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I also had this in my wish list,but after reading the customer reviews
decided against it.
My decision was based not on the lack of sources, but most reviewers
said it was written as a series of small articles that often repeated with succeeding chapters.
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I have to agree with the reviews above. Wells pads out some fairly thin evidence with some highly elementary background history of the Imperium and the Roman Army and with lots of repetition. Then he spices the story up with some graphic descriptions of the brutality which seemed to be trying to be something like Keegan's The Face of Battle but ended up seeming gratuitous and silly.
But the bit that made me want to throw the book at the wall was where he blithely dismisses all the actual accounts of the battle taking up to four days and creating a laughable scenario where (i) the whole three legions somehow cram into the battleground at Kalkrieseberg (not just the ragged remnants), (ii) the Germanics all throw lots of spears and (iii) the Romans all fall down dead, with the whole thing over in under an hour. Give me a break!
This book deserves something like the 'Clueless Armchair General Award' for the most ridiculous and unlikely reconstruction of a battle ever.
Five thumbs down - avoid like the plague.
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I've put large parts of it online: [url:2srtltf4]http://www.livius.org/germinf.html[/url]. The Teutoburg part is here: [url:2srtltf4]http://www.livius.org/te-tg/teutoburg/teutoburg01.htm[/url].
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