M. J. Trow
Boudicca
The Warrior Queen
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'She was tall and terrible, with a great mass of red hair to her hips... and carried a spear to instil terror in all who saw her.' So wrote Dio Cassius, one of a handful of Romans who commented on the queen of the Iceni who defied the most powerful military nation on earth - and nearly won. Whipped by her Roman overlords and with her two daughters raped, Boudicca went on the warpath in 60AD, uniting tribes under her and wreaking vengeance. Today's Colchester, London and St Albans were all burned to the ground by her marauding army until they were defeated at Mancetter, the 'place of the chariots'…
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'She was tall and terrible, with a great mass of red hair to her hips... and carried a spear to instil terror in all who saw her.' So wrote Dio Cassius, one of a handful of Romans who commented on the queen of the Iceni who defied the most powerful military nation on earth - and nearly won. Whipped by her Roman overlords and with her two daughters raped, Boudicca went on the warpath in 60AD, uniting tribes under her and wreaking vengeance. Today's Colchester, London and St Albans were all burned to the ground by her marauding army until they were defeated at Mancetter, the 'place of the chariots' by Aulus Plautius. Her end and her grave are unknown. M. J. Trow uses the Roman archives and Celtic mythology to paint a fascinating portrait of this enigmatic woman who was a leader of men and frightened the Romans to death. His son, Taliesin, who holds a Master's Degree in Archaeology, looks at the 'testimony of the spade' to find some surprising conclusions to the many unanswered questions about the queen, whose statue stands alongside the Thames to this day. Boudicca's own reputation has suffered its ups and downs over the centuries, but this book places her firmly on that pedestal alongside her bronze image.
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Weitere Autoren: Trow, Taliesin
- ISBN: 978-1-910670-10-1
- EAN: 9781910670101
- Produktnummer: 27565361
- Verlag: Thistle Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 372 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.5 cm 400 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 400
Über den Autor
M .J. Trow bills himself in many of his books as the only Welshman who cannot sing or play rugby. A military historian by training, graduating from King's College, London and Cambridge, he has spent most years of his life at the chalk face of comprehensive schools which has given him the inspiration for his latest fictional detective Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell. The first detective series appeared in 1985 in the form of Inspector Lestrade, late of the Conan Doyle canon and after sixteen hilarious, bloody and intriguing outings, the world's second greatest detective hung up his bowler ... or did he? In fiction, Mad Max, history teacher by day, private detective by weekend, has now solved 14 bizarre cases, each with its own brand of humour and sadness. Wearing his true crime hat, M.J.Trow took the lid off the Craig and Bentley case with Let Him Have It which helped in the long fight to clear Derek Bentley's name. The Wigwam Murder and The Many Faces of Jack the Ripper followed, examining slaughter across sixty decades in the classic tradition. Turning to pure biography, Trow has earned a reputation as a scholar who peels away legend to reveal the truth. In topics as diverse as Kit Marlowe, Vlad the IMpaler, Boudicca and Cnut, he succeeds in bringing to life not only the central characters, but their times. An experienced ghost writer and researcher, he lives with his wife, also a writer, in a Victorian vicarage in the Isle of Wight and has been aided in his recent fact books by his son, who now, irritatingly enough, has one more degree than his father! A talented artist as well as writer, M.J.Trow has designed the covers for many of his novels and more recently has drafted maps and line illustrations for his biographies. He has also lectured with great success in Britain and the USA. Recent TV work includes Ancient Discoveries Series 3 and 4 for Wild Dream on History Channel; Jack the Ripper for several companies and channels; Spartacus for History Channel; the Black Museum with Nick Ross made by Endemol for the Crime Channel; Vlad the Impaler and Frankenstein for Hardy Pictures' True Horror Series.
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