A history of the Republic’s most notorious family. In the early days of the Roman Republic there was a clan whose men sacrificed themselves for the good of the republic. The book starts around 485BC and paints the Fabii as standing next to Romulus when the city was founded. So you don’t really get earlier […]
One of the series of books looking at the groups that defeated and replaced Rome. In the case of the Franks, this Germanic tribe took over Gaul, and gave its name Francia / France. The book looks at the fighters, weapons and tactics the franks used against the Romans which ultimately led to their victory […]
Vincentio Saviolo’s rules and ettiquette of honour and honourable quarrels As the title of the book says this is a book on duelling. In fact as far as the 16th century in England goes, this is the book on duelling in Elizabethan England. The book even goes so far as to suggest it inspire Shakespeare […]
Springalds and Great Crossbows – Jean Liebel (Translated by Juliet Vale) Part of the Royal Armouries Monograph series When I was sent this book to review, I was puzzled to know what a Springald was. Basically this book covers what we would now know as Artillery, but before the advent of gunpowder. So machines made […]
