This book was interesting as it doesn’t support the view of the simple adoption and adapation of the Greek mythology by the Early Roman Empire. The author shows that the Romans actually had their own mythology and didn’t simply use Greek mythology as their own. The author then goes on to highlight the role of […]

This book was first published on 1981 and has gone through several editions. This latest edition is a fantastic edition to any military history, Roman, Greek or wargames enthusiast. This book is like an osprey illustrated book on Steroids. It is a massive 320 odd pages jammed packed with a huge amount of detail. This […]

Like most things in Italian history, this is complicated.  What is really interesting and drew me in was the thought that these wars signal the change from medieval warfare to renaissance warfare, with the sword giving way to gunpowder as the deciding factor in these wars. The book covers the period of the French invasion […]

I was excited when this book arrived, as this is a period of history I am starting to research for family history.  I tended to stay away from anything from this period onwards as this is Warfare on an industrial scale. This book shows how this develops over the period of Queen Victoria’s reign. The […]