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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Roman Army of the Punic Wars 264-146 BCdi Nic Fields
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is Osprey at its best, in that Fields gives you a clear and concise picture of how the Roman army of the period functioned at the tactical level, and places this in the context of the ever-expanding Roman polity, the strategic basis of the wars with the Carthaginians, and the assorted field forces that were deployed. ( ) The illustrations are really helpful in this volume. Most accounts of Hannibal and the Punic Wars are text based but in these excellent short Osprey series they supplement the sound text studies with accompanying views of the troops and specific battles. The pictures also focus on the period and offer valuable visual evidence of the period. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Long before the Second Punic War (218 - 201 BC), Rome's influence extended no further than the Alps, and the wars that it fought consisted of small-scale raids and cattle rustling, with perhaps the occasional battle between armies. Nevertheless, within a century the seeds of an empire had been sown in Iberia, Africa, and the Greek east, and the Roman Republican army became the most successful of its day, establishing standards of discipline, organization, and efficiency that set a bench mark for the later armies of Rome. With the evolution of the Roman Republic came the adoption of the Manipular legion, a formation taken from the hoplite phalanx and first used in mass deployment against the North African nation of Carthage, during the Punic Wars. In this book Nic Fields examines the evolution of the Roman army from its defeat at Cannae through to their final success at Zama which saw a small city-based force evolve into a Mediterranean powerhouse, demonstrating how and why it became the most highly organized, sophisticated force in the ancient world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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