ISBN10: 1399094025, ISBN13: 9781399094023, [publisher: Pen & Sword Military 2023-03-30, Barnsley] Hardcover
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2023]

ISBN10: 1399094025, ISBN13: 9781399094023, [publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, South Yorkshire] Hardcover Hardcover. The period covered in this book saw the Roman Republic face its greatest military challenges. In 264 the Romans were pitted against the might of Carthage in the first of the three Punic Wars, which would push Rome to the brink but end with the destruction of this great rival city. In the following two centuries they would clash repeatedly with the Gauls, this recurrent threat finally overcome by Caesar's campaigns in Gaul. In this period they defeated the Hellenistic Successor states, proud heirs to the military legacy of Alexander the Great, a process completed by the annexation of Egypt in 30 BC. These wars, and others, made the Romans masters of all Western Europe and the whole Mediterranean basin, though failure against the Parthians limited their ambitions in the East. The Roman armies of this era were also employed against each other in the vicious civil wars that marked the end of the Republican period. Gabriele Esposito describes the tactics, organisation, weapons and equipment of the Roman forces involved in these wars. He shows how the lessons of defeats and victories against such varied opponents in far-flung theatres, as well as social changes, forced a process of evolution and reforms that transformed Roman armies across this turbulent period. As usual, his clear, accessible text is supported by dozens of colour images of replica ...
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ISBN10: 1399094025, ISBN13: 9781399094023, [publisher: Pen and Sword Books Ltd] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Hardback. New. Covers the period of Rome's greatest expansion, from an Italy-only state to master of the Mediterranean World. ISBN 1399094025 9781399094023 [GB]

ISBN10: 1399094025, ISBN13: 9781399094023, [publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd Mär 2023] Hardcover Neuware - This book covers the period of Rome's greatest expansion, from an Italy-only state to master of the Mediterranean World.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2023]

ISBN10: 1399094025, ISBN13: 9781399094023, [publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd] Hardcover 2023. Hardcover. . . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2023]

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