Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes
The benefits to consider reviewing guides Legio XVII: Battle Of Zama, By Thomas A. Timmes are concerning improve your life quality. The life quality will certainly not only about just how much knowledge you will gain. Even you read the fun or amusing books, it will certainly assist you to have improving life top quality. Really feeling fun will lead you to do something perfectly. Moreover, the e-book Legio XVII: Battle Of Zama, By Thomas A. Timmes will certainly provide you the session to take as an excellent need to do something. You could not be useless when reviewing this book Legio XVII: Battle Of Zama, By Thomas A. Timmes
Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes
Ebook PDF Online Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes
Legio XVII Series, Book 3 (historical fiction): Following Scipio’s victory at Ilipa, Spain in 206 BC, Mago Barca, Hannibal’s brother, sails with his army to the northern Italian port of Genoa in 205, to attempt to do what his brother Hasdrubal failed to do in 207: reinforce the embattled Hannibal. Mago recruits mercenaries from as far away as Illyria (modern Albania) and Posonium (modern Slovakia). Praetor Manius Tullus leads Legiones XVII and V Etrusci to Verona to prevent the mercenaries from joining Mago and fights them at the Battle of Lake Benacus. Scipio arrives in Africa in 204 BC and fights two decisive battles. Under intense pressure from Carthage, Mago engages the veteran Legionaries blocking his way south. Carthage recalls Hannibal from Italy and sets the stage for the Battle of Zama between the two greatest generals of the 2nd Punic War. A last minute appeal from Scipio draws Manius and his two Legions to Africa to block Numidian cavalry from joining Hannibal. The fictional exploits of Legio XVII are impacted by the Punic War and its military operations are conducted in support of the overall war effort, but do not intrude into or alter actual historical events. Together, the three books present a complete summary of that ancient War.
Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes- Amazon Sales Rank: #328777 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Released on: 2015-06-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
Where to Download Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes
Most helpful customer reviews
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Lots of Face Palms. By Robin E. Levin It’s not that often when the very first paragraph you read in a book provokes a face-palm.“When Proconsul Manius Tullus returned to Rome from Regensberg, Germany with Legiones XVII and V Etrusci in September 206, he was anxiously looking forward to seeing his wife, Lucia, and his two children, Flavia and Titus.” If the book is about Zama, this is 206 BC and the Romans never engaged Germanic military forces until around the turn of the first century BC when Gaius Marius defeated the Cimbri and Tuetones who had invaded Cis-alpine Gaul. Much less did the Romans send legions to Germania at that period in their history.The author seems to have a strong military background but little understanding of actual conditions of life during the third century B.C. He has his hero employing military time to schedule meetings and events in an age where there were no clocks and the best timekeeping devices were the sundial and the clepsydra. His characters use precise dates at a time when the Romans used a lunar calendar which was never in sync with the actual seasons of the year. He tries to give U.S. currency equivalents to ancient monetary units, something that would seem impossible to do with any accuracy. He even uses the term “dollars” at times. A young man named Kai tells his superior officer “First, my father was killed in Augsberg by the Teutons in 209 BC when I was 14.” My Christian friends would probably be thrilled to know that a Swabian boy prophesied the birth of Christ more than two hundred years before the event!Rome at the time of the Punic wars controlled much of the Italian peninsula, including parts of Cis-alpine Gaul, perhaps parts of Trans-alpine Gaul, all of Spain after 209 BC, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia, and had a military presence in Illyria. Aside from the civilizations of Greece, the Middle East, Egypt and Carthage, all other lands belonged to barbarians. Barbarians were just that-barbarians. They had no cities. There was no Innsbruck, no Salzburg, and no Munich, yet the author writes as though these cities existed at the time.The main part of the book deals with the efforts of the protagonist, Manius Tullus, to prevent the mercenaries hired by Hannibal’s brother Mago, some 50,000 of them, from joining forces with him. Mago invaded Italy at the port of Genoa in 205 BC with a force of 16,000, later joined by 6,000 reinforcements from Carthage. He certainly recruited a number of soldiers from Cis-alpine Gaul, as many of the tribes there were hostile to Rome. It is highly unlikely, however, that he even attempted to recruit barbarians from the Danube, or mercenaries from Illyria. The Boii, who occupied part of Cis-alpine Gaul and were hostile to the Romans did have relatives who lived along the Danube, but it is unlikely that the primitive social organization of the tribes at the time would have lent itself to raising a mercenary army. As for Illyria, the Romans occupied the region as they were engaged in a war with Phillip V of Macedon, and it is unlikely than any of the Illyrian leaders would have offended the Romans by sending troops to Mago. Basically the book is based on events that never happened. (There actually was a battle in recorded Roman history called the Battle of Lake Benacus, but it occurred in 268 AD and involved invading Suebi and Juthungi tribesmen.)The author fares better when he writes of actual events, such as the battle of Ilipa and the battle of Zama, but even here he hits some sour notes. In 202, just before the Battle of Zama, Scipio’s lieutenant Silenus goes to Quintus Fabius Maximus to get permission to recruit Manius Tullus for a blocking action in Africa. Fabius was dead by this time, and even if he had been alive, he was no friend of Scipio, and would have been the last person Silenus would have gone to for assistance in the matter.The Second Punic War was one of the most dramatic and fascinating events in history, and it seems to me that many a fine novel can be derived from these events without having to resort to fantasy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyable but error prone By Gregory Savage Fun light read but there were numerous grammatical and historical errors and anachronisms. Clearly the author is well versed in military planning which can get in the way of plot and character development.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I have enjoyed reading this authors books By chris mackey I have enjoyed reading this authors books. For the first time he has taken me on a journey of command. The planning and implementation of Roman battle plans is very interesting . Coordinating the efforts of several different legions and the logistics necessary to plan and execute a battle plan was and is fascinating to me. I got to see some of this kind of effort as a SP4 in the 67th Medical Group, Da Nang. We coordinated all the medical units in MRl and MRll. I served in the Aviation Section, "DUST OFF" and the logistics for the units was a great effort by everyone involved. I look forward to reading more from this author in the future.
See all 13 customer reviews... Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. TimmesLegio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes PDF
Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes iBooks
Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes ePub
Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes rtf
Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes AZW
Legio XVII: Battle of Zama, by Thomas A. Timmes Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar