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Medieval Sword School (HEMA)

German Medieval Martial Arts

Greece and Rome at War

Posted on November 29, 2020 Written by fechtschule

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 isn’t a book you read. This is a book you keep dipping on and out of.

The book covers 3 periods of ancient history chronologically.

  • Greece and Macedonia
  • Italy and the Western Mediterranean
  • The Roman Empire

The book is full of details illustrations, maps and photographs. This is going to take a huge amount of time to get through.

My only one gripe is the 3 column page format for reading. But I can see why they have does it, too cram in as much as possible.

The books ends with 3 appendices on war at sea, fortifications and siege warfare, and finally a lot of plates depicting clothing and uniforms of the period.

I really recommend this book.

You can buy the book here from Pen and Sword books 

Please note I was not paid to write this review but was sent a review copy of the book. All comments are my own, and the publishers have not amended the review in any way.

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