Book description
The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of
the early Roman Empire-a force that had been wiped out under Julius
Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the
a. d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest
glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under
Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing
machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only
400 Roman losses-an accomplishment that led the emperor Nero to honor
the legion with the title "Conqueror of Britain." In this
gripping book, second in the author's definitive histories of the
legions of ancient Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion to
life, offering military history aficionados a unique soldier's-eye view
of their tactics, campaigns, and battles. STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS is the
author of Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth
Legion and the Armies of Rome, Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesar's
Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar, and Mark Antony's
Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Made an
Emperor, all from Wiley. He is an Australian-born researcher, editor,
and author who has spent the last three decades identifying and studying
the individual legions of the Roman army of the late Republic and the
empire of the Caesars.
