The Great Invasion
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Two thousand years ago, the most powerful military force the ancient world had ever seen set its sights on a remote, fog-shrouded island at the edge of the known world — and The Great Invasion chronicles Rome's audacious conquest of Britain with the narrative drive of a thriller and the authority of a seasoned historian. Leonard Cottrell reconstructs Julius Caesar's initial forays and, later, the full-scale Claudian invasion of 43 AD, bringing to vivid life the legions, the Celtic warriors who defied them, and the turbulent clash of two radically different civilisations on British soil. Cottrell, a celebrated BBC broadcaster and populariser of archaeology and ancient history, commands a prose style that is at once authoritative and deeply accessible, grounding grand imperial ambition in the human drama of individual soldiers, chieftains, and forgotten battlefields. Drawing on classical sources, archaeological evidence, and his own considerable fieldwork, he presents an account that is as much a portrait of Iron Age Britain as it is a military narrative — and leaves the reader asking how profoundly, and permanently, that long-ago invasion shaped the nation that endures today.
Author: Leonard Cottrell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Readers Union / Evans Brothers Limited
Genre: Ancient history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Two thousand years ago, the most powerful military force the ancient world had ever seen set its sights on a remote, fog-shrouded island at the edge of the known world — and The Great Invasion chronicles Rome's audacious conquest of Britain with the narrative drive of a thriller and the authority of a seasoned historian. Leonard Cottrell reconstructs Julius Caesar's initial forays and, later, the full-scale Claudian invasion of 43 AD, bringing to vivid life the legions, the Celtic warriors who defied them, and the turbulent clash of two radically different civilisations on British soil. Cottrell, a celebrated BBC broadcaster and populariser of archaeology and ancient history, commands a prose style that is at once authoritative and deeply accessible, grounding grand imperial ambition in the human drama of individual soldiers, chieftains, and forgotten battlefields. Drawing on classical sources, archaeological evidence, and his own considerable fieldwork, he presents an account that is as much a portrait of Iron Age Britain as it is a military narrative — and leaves the reader asking how profoundly, and permanently, that long-ago invasion shaped the nation that endures today.