Simon MacDowall

Catalaunian Fields AD 451

Rome's last great battle

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The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive for more than 15 years following the battle, whilst the Huns, shattered and demoralized, would meet their downfall against a coalition of German tribes soon after. This book, using revealing bird's-eye-views of the plains of Champagne and detailed illustrations of the opposing warriors in the midst of desperate combat, describes the fighting at the Catalaunian Fields and reveals the broader campaign of Hunnic incursion that led… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Dennis, Peter (Illustr.)

ISBN: 978-1-4728-0745-8
EAN: 9781472807458
Produktnummer: 18952736
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 60'950 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 15 b/w; 70 col

Über den Autor

Simon MacDowall is a former army officer with a deep interest in military history, especially the period around the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West. After 22 years in the Canadian army he held senior positions at NATO and the UK Government, including Director General Media and Communications at the UK Ministry of Defence. Simon takes a practical approach to military history combining his own military and political experience with a lifelong study of ancient warfare. After living in Canada, Germany and Belgium, and seeing service in Central America, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, Simon now makes his home on the Suffolk coast near Southwold.