This covers looks at the actual outer reaches of the Roman Empire and helps us to define the frontiers of Empire. It still staggers me how vast the Roman Empire was. Living in East Kent, we are surrounded by Roman footprints, Canterbury, Reculver and Richborough… But what about right out there on the edge of […]
While the Romans had conquered the south of the Danube, north of the Danube they had a new enemy, the Dacian. And this is where this book gets really interesting for me, as a sword geek, as now the Romans come face to face with the Dacian falx. The Danube frontier was always troublesome for […]
Attila the Hun doesn’t really need that much of an introduction. We all have some vague notion of how he was. Roman botherer supreme, he became king of Hunnic Empire in 434 and then spent the next 20 years attacking both the Eastern and Western Roman Empires. The first section of the book is for […]
I have been looking forward to reading this book for a while, as I recently acquired a steel Montante. I had always seen this weapons in museums and had a fascination about who these things could possibly be used. They do look ceremonial in nature, but the more and more I use it, the more […]
