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  • The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army

    by G.L. Cheesman ...
    An essay on the Roman auxilia might seem merely to be one of the many monographs in which students of the military system of the Roman Empire are patiently arranging material for some future scholar to utilize in a more comprehensive work. But while much space must necessarily be devoted to details of military organization, the subject opens up social and political questions of wider range. The ... Read more

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  • The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army

    by G. L. Cheesman ...
    A clazzic work of military history, this was the first systematic study of the auxiliary soldiers who fought alongside the Roman legions. Using evidence ranging from their gravestones to the discharge papers that eventually granted them citizenship, Cheesman traces the evolution of the “barbarian” auxiliaries, from ad-hoc local levies to highly specialized units that became a vital component of ... Read more

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  • Procopius' History of the Wars, books 1 to 6

    by Procopius ...
    History of three wars from the reign of Justinian, Byzantine emperor -- The Persian War, The Vandalic War, and The Gothic War. According to Wikipedia: "Procopius of Caesarea (Latin: Procopius Caesarensis, c. AD 500 c. AD 565) was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian of the 6th ... Read more

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  • The Military Institutions of the Romans

    by Flavius Vegetius Renatus ...
    The Military Institutions of the Romans (De Re Militari), is a classic military treatise, written in the 4th century A.D. and translated in the 18th century. ... Read more

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  • A History of the Art of War

    The Middle Ages from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century

    by Charles Oman ...
    Sir Charles Oman brings medieval warfare to life in this epic work of military history. He traces the evolution of weaponry, strategy and tactics from the end of the Roman legions to the final battlefield dominance of the armored knight. Many conflicts are discussed in depth, including those of the Byzantine Empire, the Viking invasions, the Crusades, the Hundred Years War, and the English wars ... Read more

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  • Medieval Warfare: The Art of War in the Middle Ages

    by C.W.C. Oman ...
    This quick read is a fascinating look at the evolution of military from after the fall of the Roman Empire to the introduction of gunpowder in Europe. A number of civilizations such as the Byzantines, English, and Swiss are discussed along with their military innovations. This edition is hand formatted, and not OCRd. A table of contents is included for easier navigation. ... Read more

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  • Legions of Rome

    The definitive history of every Roman legion

    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
    No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous sources: stone and bronze inscriptions, coins, papyrus and literary accounts in a remarkable feat ... Read more

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  • The African Wars

    by Julius Caesar ...
    Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) is one of the most famous men in history, and his name was used to denote the status of emperor throughout European countries like Italy, Germany, and Russia nearly 2,000 years after his famous assassination. But before he won the civil war against Pompey the Great and ended the Roman Republic permanently, he became a man of power and fame in modern day France, leading ... Read more

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  • The Ostrogoth and Visigoth Kings

    by Jordanes, Sidonius Apollinaris, and Theodoric ...
    Jordanes, also written Jordanis or (not common nowadays) Jornandes, was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat best known for writing histories. Jordanes wrote Romana about the history of Rome, but his best-known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551. It is the only extant classical work dealing with the early history of the Goths. Jordanes was asked by a friend to write this book as ... Read more

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  • The Complete Tacitus Anthology

    The Histories, The Annals, Germania, Agricola, A Dialogue on Oratory

    by Publius Cornelius Tacitus ...
    Series series Texts From Ancient Rome
    Publius Cornelius Tacitus (AD56 - AD117) was a Roman orator, lawyer and senator. He is considered one of antiquities greatest historians. The surviving portions of his major works - "The Histories" and "The Annals" - examine the reigns of the Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the "Year of the Four Emperors". These two works cover the span of history from the death of ... Read more

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  • Agricola And Germania: Translation Based On Alfred John Church And William Jackson Brodribb (1876) (Mobi Classics)

    by Cornelius Tacitus ...
    The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, lit. The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire.This work survived only in one single manuscript that was found in Hersfeld Abbey, Holy Roman Empire and brought to Italy in 1455 where Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the later Pope Pius II ... Read more

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  • Italy and Her Invaders: The Imperial Restoration, Belisarius in Italy

    by Thomas Hodgkin ...
    Flavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously. Belisarius led campaigns against the Vandals, Ostrogths, recapturing Carthage and Rome. One of the defining features of Belisarius' career ... Read more

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