GLADIUS (PB)

The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and auxiliaries came from across the Roman world and beyond. Gladius takes the reader right into the heart of what it meant to be a part of the Roman. Guy de la Bédoyère throws open a window on how the men, their wives and their children lived.