Article: Storming the Heavens: Soldiers, Emperors, and Civilians in the Roman Empire.(Book Review)

by Antonio Santosuosso. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2001. xi, 265 pp. $26.00 US (cloth).

Antonio Santosuosso has done it again. Storming the Heavens is a finely crafted follow-up to his earlier work Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167BC. His interesting twist on the current "war and society" research trend in military history continues to draw in both specialist and non-specialist alike. Santosuosso uses a lively narrative style to introduce the reader to his unique insights on the relationship between the Roman military and Roman society. Far from being a didactic military treatise or dull, ...

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