69 A.D. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 69 A.D. write by Gwyn Morgan. This book was released on 2007. 69 A.D. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A striking history of ancient Rome, "69 A.D." is an original and compelling account of one of the best known but perhaps least understood periods in all Roman history.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports write by . This book was released on 1970-07. Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Roman Legionary AD 69–161
Roman Legionary AD 69–161 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Legionary AD 69–161 write by Ross Cowan. This book was released on 2013-04-20. Roman Legionary AD 69–161 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between AD 69 and 161 the composition of the Roman legions was transformed. Italians were almost entirely replaced by provincial recruits, men for whom Latin was at best a second language, and yet the 'Roman-ness' of these Germans, Pannonians, Spaniards, Africans and Syrians, fostered in isolated fortresses on the frontiers, was incredibly strong. They were highly competitive, jealous of their honour, and driven by the need to maintain and enhance their reputations for virtus, that is manly courage and excellence. The warfare of the period, from the huge legion versus legion confrontations in the Civil War of AD 69, through the campaigns of conquest in Germany, Dacia and Britain, to the defence of the frontiers of Africa and Cappadocia and the savage quelling of internal revolts, gave ample opportunity for virtus-enhancing activity. The classic battle formation that had baffled Pyrrhus and conquered Hannibal was revived. Heroic centurions continued to lead from the front, and common legionaries vied with them in displays of valour. The legions of the era may have been provincial but they were definitely Roman in organisation and ethos.
The Long Year A.D. 69
The Long Year A.D. 69 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Year A.D. 69 write by Kenneth Wellesley. This book was released on 1989. The Long Year A.D. 69 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
AD69
AD69 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook AD69 write by Nic Fields. This book was released on 2014-03-31. AD69 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of God’s Viking brings to life “a period in Roman history that provides many twists and turns as Rome emerged from the period of rule by Nero” (Firetrench). With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9 June, AD 68. The following year, commonly known as the “Year of the Four Emperors,” was probably one of Rome’s worst. In all previous successions, the new emperor had some relation to his predecessor, but the psychotic and paranoid Nero had done away with any eligible relatives. The new emperor had to secure his legal position and authority with regards to the Senate and to the army, as well as to those who had a vested interest in the system, the Praetorian Guard. Because imperial authority was ultimately based on control of the military, a player in the game of thrones had to gain an unshakable command over the legions. Of course, this in turn meant that the soldiers themselves could impose their own choice. It was to take a tumultuous year of civil war and the death of three imperial candidates before a fourth candidate could come out on top, remain there, and establish for himself a new dynasty. Nic Fields narrates the twists and turns and the military events of this short but bloody period of Roman history. “We appear to meet more people than the cast of Game of Thrones (with about the same mortality rate!) but with the added bonus of this being history, not fiction . . . hugely entertaining.”—Miniature Wargames Magazine
