false 602414 0750938536 9780750938532 3 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176184707m/602414.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/602414.The_Roman_War_Machine 51143 John Peddie 13 4 5 0 false Thu Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 21 13:24:56 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 13:24:56 -0800 2009 1
Some of the information wasn't relevant to my search for answers, but that same information might be exactly what others are looking for. For example, some people might not like that the book focuses too much time on modern British WWII examples of the same problems the Romans faced, but I found that interesting since I'm making a study of war, not just Roman war.

What I absolutely loved about this book is the details it went into: it had charts about how far did the various missile weapons reached, talked about how signals were passed along, how much food would need to be brought along, how many baggage carts, wagons, or mules needed to carry it, and the 'why' that's always stumped me: why an army could only move about 10-12 miles a day. The answer? The column was so long (when baggage carts, etc, were included) that the first part of the column would be reaching the new camp and starting to set up before the last of the column was even leaving the old camp! He crunches the numbers to prove it. These were just the types of numbers I was looking for, so I consider this book a jewel since I haven't found them elsewhere (in my admittedly small research done so far).]]>