Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to ...
and that this process continued. Legions in Crisis is a good read for anyone interested in the Roman Army or in how military institutions learn and grow.
In 1954, the children’s novel ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’ popularised the legend of the disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion in Caledonia. Recent research has shown the Ninth was not ...