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List of Illustrations ix
Maps xi
Family Trees xiii
Introduction: This Savage Forest 1
1 The Tangled Paths of War 21
2 A Wolf or a Shepherd? 49
3 Pore Benighted 'Eathen 75
4 This Terrible Calamity 99
5 Give Me Back My Legions! 125
6 Germany's Might 155
7 A Second Troy 181
Appendix The Finds 195
Notes 207
Select Bibliography 221
Index 227
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Gary Sombke
reviewed Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest on December 16, 2013 Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest
If you're interested in the Varian/Kalkriese disaster in AD/CE 9, you need to buy this fine textbook by Adrian Murdoch. Firstly, there aren't many texts out there on this subject, which is surprising, given that it was one of the greatest defeats that Rome ever suffered. Secondly, the ones that are around aren't as well written or presented as this volume. This book is firmly based on research, both of the ancient texts and the archaeological finds in Germany, from the sites of forts to the reputed site of the battle, which is in a little place called Kalkriese, some distance east of the Rhine.
One of the other reviews on here complains that there's not much in this text about the battle itself. That comment reflects the ignorance of the reviewer more than anything else. Like so many events from Roman times, very little material survives about the Kalkriese disaster. If Murdoch had confined himself to that, the book would be very short indeed. Readers would then also miss out on the background to the battle - Rome's campaigns into Germany for the preceding 20 years or so, and descriptions of the German tribes, of Arminius and Varus. After the story of the battle, Murdoch delves into its aftermath, and the effects that the clash had on later German history.
If you were to buy two texts on this famous battle, I would go for this book and one other - a magazine, actually, the 2009 Ancient Warfare special - The Varian Disaster. Buy it at karwansaraypublishers dot com
I give this great textbook five solid stars out of five.
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