A Naval Staff Appreciation of Ancient Rome’s Maritime Strategy 300 BCE – 500 CEOne of the first things you realise with this book, is that without the Navy the Roman empire certainly wouldn’t have been as big or lasted as long as it did.It takes a book to point that out to you. It also […]
I recently attended a study day at Sutton Hoo on the War of the Roses by Toby Capwell and he has a few books for sale with him and I picked up this one. It was rude not and he did sign it. #fanboy.This book is part of the Royal Armouries Arms and Armour seriesThe […]
It was ironic when this book arrived as I had just returned for a sneaky side trip to Rochester, and went to see Temple Manor, a Templar house just outside Rochester. It gave me an idea for a story about a templar returning from Acre. Acre is the last siege in this book.The first thing […]
This is a really interesting book, I love being sent books on topics and events I had no clue about. Which seems to be a lot…So Thebes is in Egypt, I get that but I didn’t realise there was a Roman Theban legion that were massacred in what we now call Switzerland.The initial description of […]
