Rome against Caratacus. The Roman Campaigns in Britain AD 48-58. - WEBSTER, G.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Dr. Graham Webster has completed a valauble trilogy about the early years of the conquest of Britain (the other works are 'The Roman Invasion of Britain' and 'Boudica: the British Revolt against Rome A.D. 60). The new volume covers the years of the push through the West Midlands and into Wales against Caratacus. It deals rathers more briefly with the work of consolidation in the 50s by Scapula's successors. P. Ostroisu Scapula died a frustrated and broken man. Webster is sceptical about his generalship: 'All through his period of office in Britain Scapula had made hasty decisions without full consideration of the long-term consequences.' Webster has evolved an interesting format for his books. First comes a judicious narrative based on the ancient literary sources (a translation of Tacitus 'Annals 12.31ff. is included in an appendix), in which Webster's determination to extract as much information as possible from the text is only occasionally marred by strained and oversubtle interpretations of Tacitus' wor...
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London / NewYork, 2003. Re-issued. 181p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Paperback. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: WEBSTER, G.,] [Uitgever: Routledge] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Rome against Caratacus. The Roman Campaigns in Britain AD 48-58.]
