Description
Author: Bishop, M. C.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Place: Barnsley
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: New Book
Category: Military Reference
Year: 2012
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: xii + 209pp., col. & b/w pls., maps & plans, appends., bibliog., index, A reference guide to Roman legionary fortresses throughout the former Roman Empire, of which approximately eighty-five have been located and identified. During the 1st century AD, Rome began to concentrate its legions in large permanent bases. Some have been explored in great detail, others are barely known, but this book brings together the legionary fortresses of the whole empire; outlines the history of legionary bases & their key components
