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In Quest of the Lost Legions

This work is really two books in one. Semi-fictitious yes, but based on real events and people giving it a stamp of authenticity. Arminius' speech to the tribes is particularly stirring, and it is easy to imagine Boudicca speaking similar words to our own tribes 55 years later. This really is history brought to life!

It was a military disaster on a huge scale. It dealt a body blow to the might of Imperial Rome, and its probably changed the course of European history.

Three entire legions and support troops - twenty thousand men in all -were wiped out by German tribesmen in the Teutoburger Wald in AD 9.

It was a savage running battle lasting for four days, and where Varus' surviving legionaries made their last stand is the subject of this powerful and exciting book.

Major Tony Clun, by dint of hard work, much ground searching and remarkable and imaginative flair, has established Kalkriese as the last point of attack, the bottleneck where the six to seven thousand were trapped and died.

Here we have a gripping story of field detection, buried treasures, local legends and archaeological research, persistence and reward. The fruits of many years are here in this vivid record of one man's mission of discovery - into the fate of so many men all those centuries ago.

As history, this book is invaluable, with contemporary textual references and harrowing descriptions of army life and action seen through a soldier's eyes. As a dramatic reconstruction, it is a thriller of the first order. Read on!

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