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Roman Siege Warfare
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Description for Roman Siege Warfare
Hardcover. Key reading for the discerning history buff or academic specialist Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBW; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army. Sieges are typically sorted by the techniques and technologies that attackers used, but the more fruitful approach offered in Roman Siege Warfare examines the way a siege follows or diverges from typical narrative and operational plotlines. Author Josh Levithan emphasises the human elements—morale and motivation—rather than the engineering, and he recaptures the sense of a siege as an event in progress that offers numerous attitudes, methods, and outcomes. Sieges involved a concentration of violent effort in space and the practical ... Read more
Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army. Sieges are typically sorted by the techniques and technologies that attackers used, but the more fruitful approach offered in Roman Siege Warfare examines the way a siege follows or diverges from typical narrative and operational plotlines. Author Josh Levithan emphasises the human elements—morale and motivation—rather than the engineering, and he recaptures the sense of a siege as an event in progress that offers numerous attitudes, methods, and outcomes. Sieges involved a concentration of violent effort in space and the practical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118984
SKU
V9780472118984
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About Unknown
Josh Levithan is Assistant Professor of Humanities, Kenyon College, USA.
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