The Roman Army at War 100 BC - AD 200 (Oxford Classical Monographs)

by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy

1998 328 pages eng

This detailed examination of the way in which the Roman army operated during a war and how it fought a battle breaks away from existing studies, which mostly concentrate on the army in peacetime, and attempts to understand the army as an institution whose ultimate purpose was to wage war. Adrian Gol…